DONT TAKE THIS GE IT IS FKN TERRIBLE DONT TRUST THE REVIEWS! this goofy ahh course tanked my gpa because fkers wanna lie on bruinwalk saying it's a "easy" ge deadass on everything dont take this class bro save urself theres so many ge's that are way easier. The TA was terrible, she constantly asked questions, but no one would respond and it was very awkward and obnoxious to attend. The class was so boring especially watching the recorded ones. He assigned extremely long weekly readings like bro wyd. Week 1 was so easy then it js went downhill.

My first GE and in my opinion a very easy one. There are definitely quite a lot of readings, but for most, you only have to read the parts that the study questions refer to as only these will show up on the exam. You can pretty much ignore the rest of the readings which reduces the amount significantly and makes the workload very manageable. You also have to do 3 papers, but they'll drop the one with the lowest grade, so if you received an A or whatever grade you're happy with on the first two, you can ignore the third. The prompts were a little open ended, but this also made it quite easy to come up with stuff to write. The professor mostly explains material clearly in lectures, but there are times where he would rush at the end of lecture due to running out of time. Overall, the professor is very helpful and provides a study guide for each midterm and final. Nothing that isn't on the study guide will show up on the exams, so you only need to study the topics listed on the study guide. On all the exams, there were more questions than needed to get 100%, meaning the rest is extra credit, giving you some room for error. As a STEM student who typically hates history and the likes, I found this class to be quite interesting and easy. Grading is the standard UCLA grading scheme without A+.

Professor Lesure is a great professor who is very passionate about archaeology. His lectures are pretty engaging, even for someone who tends to hate anything history-adjacent. The class is graded based on two midterms, a final, two papers, two quizzes, and participation in section. The papers are pretty easy and are pretty lenient depending on your TA; they're only about 2 pages long double spaced. The midterms are each 20 questions and are very reasonable if you study based on the study guide that he posts and do the readings. The final is the same but 40 questions (sometimes more that may give extra credit), and is semi-cumulative with most of the content being from the last 3 weeks of the class. The quizzes are pretty easy and sort of fun to do.

Yall steer clear from this GE i mean it...such a boring class. I didn't do any of the readings because they were so excessive and your boy has ADHD but like I had to put so much effort into this class. Midterms/finals were not curved and lectures felt disorganized and messy, sometimes he would run out of time and just rush the end of the lecture. The way I got an A was by listening to every single lecture pre midterm on 2x speed while walking my dog but it was incredibly mind numbing and such a waste of my time. It's by no means an "easy" GE save yourself and take something else

Everyone who said that this class is manageable as long as you go to lecture and do the readings are LIARRRRSSSSSSSSS. The readings are usually 20+ pages a week, every week. Lectures are recorded (yay!) but are IMO, so hard to sit through you should just attend class bc you will not want to spend any of your time outside class watching it. The professor is funny, and is clearly very passionate about the topic.
You are given 72 hours to complete 3 papers with the most vague topic throughout the quarter, often right before midterms. Discussion sections (that make up 20% of your grade), are graded based on attendance and participation. Topics are confusing and you will need to spend time outside of class just to get a basic understanding of what the professor is talking about. Overall, spent more time on this class than my major classes, and will not ever be taking something with this professor or this department again.
With that being said, the class topics were enjoyable, and oftentimes interesting once you actually understood what Lesure was talking about ( FYI, I am a bio major). Both the TAs and Lesure are willing to help.
However, midterms are hard (first midterm had a C average), no EC, no rounding. Finals were significantly easier, but still requires a good amount of studying to do well.
Personally bombed the first midterm with a D, but was able to drag my grade up- so there is hope.
Good luck to the people who are going to take this class in the future. (quickly find any another GE unless you want to spend an obnoxious amount of time on this class)

This is by far the hardest GE I’ve taken. The professor does not curve the final grade at all, which honestly feels unreasonable. I put an enormous amount of effort into this class and still only ended up with a B. For context, I took two other GEs at the same time, put much less total effort into them, and still performed better than in this class.

The professor clearly loves archaeology, but the lectures are very disorganized and did not help me review the material in a structured or systematic way. The final exam being cumulative made this even more frustrating. The content is extremely boring if you are not an anthropology major, and no matter how much I studied, I feel like I forgot most of it immediately after the exam.

Some students did well, but from what I observed, they were genuinely interested in archaeology and were strong humanities students. As a STEM student taking this course as a GE, both I and other STEM students I know felt very confused and disconnected throughout the quarter.

The reading workload is excessive, and many of the readings are especially dull. Exams test very specific details that the professor briefly mentioned in lecture or minor points from the readings. Each lecture is accompanied by one or two readings, many of which are around seventeen pages long.

Overall, I would strongly recommend avoiding this class unless you are genuinely interested in archaeology and enjoy lecture-based courses in this subject. Additionally, the course introduction mentioned field trips, but there were none. We even had class in a room under a museum, yet the museum’s resources were never actually used.

His Anthro 2 lectures were engaging and helped expand my worldview on history through the internet. Felt like I had to give a review after missing the survey.

This class was much easier than most of these reviews imply, provided that you are willing to attend lecture and remain engaged. While there are many (perhaps excessively so) assigned readings each week, they are not necessary to perform well on the exams. I did not read any of the assigned readings as study material, although I did find them helpful when writing the papers. To succeed in this class, be prepared to actually learn the material from the man who will (fairly) test you upon your understanding. It is well worth your time to listen and learn from a man so passionate about archeology.

I see a lot of people complaining about how hard this class was but it truly isn't if you stay on top of readings and work as it comes in! I didn't try very hard for this class, had only ended up doing around 4 weeks max of the readings provided, and hadn't even showed up to the last 3ish weeks of lecture and still ended up getting a B in the class. Obviously each class is different for everybody, but this class truly is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Along with this, Prof. Lesure provides very detailed study guides for all of the exams taken in the class, which is very helpful.

The professor is very funny, course content is interesting, exams were moderately difficult but if you study hard they're very easy. The TA I got (Robin) was awesome, he kept students engaged.