I believe that my class with Professor Mendoza-Denton was a special exception, as our focus was doing her research. It was defintely more work than I expected, but only towards the end of the course. In the beginning of the course, there was basically no work. I probably should've dropped it when I discovered how much work there would be later, but I stuck with it. She occasionally took attendance in class by having us write on a piece of paper or something like that, but I seriously doubt that it effected my grade, or if she even looked at it again. The lectures are super all over the place, but that in itself was kind of interesting. I almost never took notes. We had 3 homeworks, 2 of which were later absorbed by our final project. I often got really stressed out about this class, as she originally wanted us to do more work for our projects than we ended up doing. The amount of work we had to do for her research/our projects was lowered nearly every time we had lecture, thanks to the TAs. I did not like that we had to travel to another neighborhood in LA for one homework, as it took up a lot of time and was expensive to do so, and some members of the group would have to travel to interview people. The final project was a lot of work, even with it being shortened by the TAs, so my group met nearly twice a week for about 3 weeks. The bulk of the work was monitored by my TA, Hannah, during discussion. She often seemed very annoyed at how much work the professor was trying to give us, and sometimes even with the material that she was teaching. One part of our project was to give a small presentation about our neighborhood and its accent during discussion, which was probably the most stressful and least guided part of the project. I was super concerned when handing in our project, because some of the guidelines were unclear, and it was about 52 pages (this does include all of our previous homeworks and the work was divided into 5). However, they graded it super quickly and gave us an A+, which makes me believe that they didn't end up actually reading our papers, but instead just took our interviews to use in Norma's research. I can't say that I would take this class again, even though my group ended up doing well. It was way too much work for me, especially since I was taking it as a GE, and it kind of scared me off of Anthropology completely. However, I don't think that she would use Anthro 4 to do this same research again, since we provided so much data for her through our projects. She is generally a nice person, but she expected too much from us in this class, and was often unclear/confusing during lecture.

This class is super manageable and stress-free. There is no midterm or final, which is really nice when other classes you're taking have larger work loads. The professor was super sweet and accommodating. There is a final project where you interview someone to learn about speech patterns in the LA area. It's interesting and not much work.

Easy A but not the most engaging class or professor. Some in class quizzes used only for attendance : the grade won't matter. No real need to do the reading. Grade is mostly based on a final group project that's kind of tedious but fairly graded.

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This class is centered around the final group project. This project is basically collecting data for the LA Speaks Project. Do not expect to delve deep into Anthropology in this course. Instead, expect to complete a lot of research where its significance is not necessarily explained. Additionally, it is not always clear what is expected of you or when it is due (as many of the due dates were changed frequently). Overall, this course was an easy A and is manageable. However, expect to have to Uber to different parts of LA several times to complete research and to be a bit on edge as due dates and specific assignments weren't always clear.

The main focus that the professor kept emphasizing was the final project which was due at the end of the quarter. It was a group project up to 5 people in a group, each contributing at least 2,000 words to the project. Lectures were packed in the beginning weeks, but eventually I remember one time I counted only 15 students in the room maybe around week 7 or 8. I liked this class mainly because of my TA and the people I met in which it was easy to talk and relate our feelings on how the class was unorganized and being confused during lectures. In the beginning of the quarter, they said we would discuss the readings during discussions so I bought the required texts, but we never did discuss them.. I could have saved the money if I knew that :// I think I missed a couple of discussion sections, but still got an A+. This class is manageable if you're able to find people to interview asap and are willing to meet up with your groupmates a couple of times in the city you choose. Good luck if you need to take this class :)

I would not recommend anyone to take this class. This is a relatively easy GE because you literally don´t have to go to any of the lectures because they are not useful at all. The professor often doesn´t use slides and is not organized at all, we spend one whole lecture just discussing the word "like" , and no one had any idea what was going on or what the lecture or final project would be about until the third week of classes.
For the final project you have to get together with a group of 4/5 people from your discussion and interview people on the streets which is very boring and a pain in the ass project which is not useful or interesting at all. She wanted us to study the accent of the people who live in Los Angeles and for the final paper each PERSON from the group needed to contribute 2 000 WORDS to the same paper analysing a 2min piece of your interview. It is very anoying paper to write and you don´t learn anything doing it, at some point you just make things up to reach the word count.
If you like to write and don´t mind group projects you can take this class cause it´s an easy A if you deliver all the work, but I feel like you could spend your time doing something more useful.

This reviews are so dramatic—this class was an actual cake walk, and the fact that she's "a bad lecturer" doesn't matter because you don't have to go to class. She streamed classes on zoom as well, and the one quiz we had was graded for completion and was just used for attendance—but she let us make it up if we missed it! AND She told us what day it was going to be on—so if you missed it that's completely your fault. You will be lost about what to do for our big final project if you skip all your TA sessions—so that's literally the bare minimum you should do. This class was great, would 100% take again.

Honestly one of the easiest classes I have ever taken. Would HIGHLY recommend to anyone, especially science majors like myself because it takes no outside work and will be a perfect break with harder classes.

Going to class isn't necessary but I did every week because I felt bad that I wasn't doing any work outside of class.

Largest assignment is 300 words weekly on something you need to skim. I had an amazing TA (HANNAH CARLAN), although I've heard pretty good things about all of the TA's, so take her if you can because she summarizes everything so well you literally only need to go to discussion to get an A.

Overall pretty interesting, TAKE THIS CLASS FOR AN EASY A.