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Aomar Boum

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3.7
Overall Ratings
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Easiness 3.5 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Workload 3.3 / 5 How light the workload is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Clarity 2.7 / 5 How clear the professor is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Helpfulness 3.3 / 5 How helpful the professor is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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March 15, 2017
Quarter: Winter 2017
Grade: B

This class should be called Anthropology of Islam. As much as I found it interesting, his lectures are not clear at all and he scribbles incoherent things on the board. His expectations are sometimes unrealistic and he purposefully tricked half of our class when it came to a midterm makeup exam. Take this class at your own risk.

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Feb. 16, 2017
Quarter: Fall 2016
Grade: B+

Great class and great professor! Highly recommend!

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Feb. 16, 2017
Quarter: Fall 2016
Grade: A-

Great class, highly recommend!

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March 21, 2017
Quarter: Winter 2017
Grade: N/A

This course has a HUGE focus on Islam and is not a general anthropology of religion class. He is a very disorganised lecturer and the exams are tough, he offered a makeup for the midterm but was very misleading about its format and content. He also said there would be two short answers in the final - turns out this was actually 2 22 mark essays worth half your grade. The final was full of mistakes. He takes a long time to post slides online and they often miss out key information and terms. Interesting content and readings but would not recommend due to the poor organisation and standard of the exams.

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June 8, 2018
Quarter: Fall 2017
Grade: A-

Terrible. Messed up the entire class' midterm grade and made us go to office hours one by one to fix the mistake-- my grade would be a whole letter lower if a kid didn't notice his mistake.
Lecture is scattered, but all that matters is the study guides. Not a hard class, but very frustrating.

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Dec. 29, 2018
Quarter: Fall 2018
Grade: A

Professor Boum is a really nice, approachable guy, and though boring and long sometimes his lectures could also be intersting. If you need an easy A this is an okay class. His biggest downfall is his disorgaization and lack of clarity. He has the most confusing powerpoint slides and though he puts them online, not everything on them matters and he lectures a lot of important details that arent on the slides. He claims to have required readings but I never read them, I just studied the study guide and googled most of the terms, (though one the first midterm, when he said study which countries the different groups reside, everyone though he meant the main ones we focused on, but then he tested us on a bunch of sub-groups that I doubt anyone knew). I got an A in the class probably because he has like 25% of free points and the exams aren't that difficult if you memorize the study guide. But there is a group essay as a final, and I think I just got lucky with group members that actually did their part, so be careful.

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ARABIC M171
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Dec. 28, 2020
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A

The content of this class was ok. However, what I really did not enjoy was how hard it was to access the professor. Although the professor was a nice person, he was often erratic in answering emails/having office hour sessions. Also, his instructions for the various assignments we did were pretty vague, which for me was hard to come by. Nevertheless, he is still OK and the class material is intriguing if you have never taken a course on Africa.

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ANTHRO M166Q
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April 9, 2021
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A

Taken during covid online. He gave me an A in the class and on my final paper. The final was a 9 page policy proposal for one of the countries in north africa. There was some lack of clarity, Yet I feel like he deserves some slack in his transition to online. Take him. If you put in a reasonable amount of effort its an
A

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ANTHRO 130
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Jan. 10, 2022
Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: A-

This class was "study of culture" but he essentially treated it like those classes ending in 9, so it was really "anthropology of sport." There were usually 2-4 readings per week about mid-long length. Each week we had to submit questions to our TA as proof of having read the papers, but this wasn't a huge percentage of our grade.

There were 3 assignments: 1 to observe a sports game, 1 to interview/analyze an interview of an athlete, and 1 to write a biography on an athlete. Each of these assignments required us to apply core concepts. These were the bulk of the grade. They weren't too bad, but it depends on the TA that grades it. They were all also group assignments, so individually not that much work.

Aomar Boum was a pretty decent lecturer. He didn't record the lectures, but he did upload slides. The slides didn't have a lot of information either so if you wanted to learn the material you had to go to lecture.

I'm not sure how often this class is taught, but it wasn't very high stakes. It was easy and the topic was interesting. I would take it again.

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ANTHRO 142P
Quarter: Winter 2017
Grade: B
March 15, 2017

This class should be called Anthropology of Islam. As much as I found it interesting, his lectures are not clear at all and he scribbles incoherent things on the board. His expectations are sometimes unrealistic and he purposefully tricked half of our class when it came to a midterm makeup exam. Take this class at your own risk.

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ARABIC M171
Quarter: Fall 2016
Grade: B+
Feb. 16, 2017

Great class and great professor! Highly recommend!

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ANTHRO 149
Quarter: Fall 2016
Grade: A-
Feb. 16, 2017

Great class, highly recommend!

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ANTHRO 142P
Quarter: Winter 2017
Grade: N/A
March 21, 2017

This course has a HUGE focus on Islam and is not a general anthropology of religion class. He is a very disorganised lecturer and the exams are tough, he offered a makeup for the midterm but was very misleading about its format and content. He also said there would be two short answers in the final - turns out this was actually 2 22 mark essays worth half your grade. The final was full of mistakes. He takes a long time to post slides online and they often miss out key information and terms. Interesting content and readings but would not recommend due to the poor organisation and standard of the exams.

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ARABIC M171
Quarter: Fall 2017
Grade: A-
June 8, 2018

Terrible. Messed up the entire class' midterm grade and made us go to office hours one by one to fix the mistake-- my grade would be a whole letter lower if a kid didn't notice his mistake.
Lecture is scattered, but all that matters is the study guides. Not a hard class, but very frustrating.

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ANTHRO 142Q
Quarter: Fall 2018
Grade: A
Dec. 29, 2018

Professor Boum is a really nice, approachable guy, and though boring and long sometimes his lectures could also be intersting. If you need an easy A this is an okay class. His biggest downfall is his disorgaization and lack of clarity. He has the most confusing powerpoint slides and though he puts them online, not everything on them matters and he lectures a lot of important details that arent on the slides. He claims to have required readings but I never read them, I just studied the study guide and googled most of the terms, (though one the first midterm, when he said study which countries the different groups reside, everyone though he meant the main ones we focused on, but then he tested us on a bunch of sub-groups that I doubt anyone knew). I got an A in the class probably because he has like 25% of free points and the exams aren't that difficult if you memorize the study guide. But there is a group essay as a final, and I think I just got lucky with group members that actually did their part, so be careful.

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ARABIC M171
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
Dec. 28, 2020

The content of this class was ok. However, what I really did not enjoy was how hard it was to access the professor. Although the professor was a nice person, he was often erratic in answering emails/having office hour sessions. Also, his instructions for the various assignments we did were pretty vague, which for me was hard to come by. Nevertheless, he is still OK and the class material is intriguing if you have never taken a course on Africa.

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ANTHRO M166Q
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
April 9, 2021

Taken during covid online. He gave me an A in the class and on my final paper. The final was a 9 page policy proposal for one of the countries in north africa. There was some lack of clarity, Yet I feel like he deserves some slack in his transition to online. Take him. If you put in a reasonable amount of effort its an
A

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ANTHRO 130
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: A-
Jan. 10, 2022

This class was "study of culture" but he essentially treated it like those classes ending in 9, so it was really "anthropology of sport." There were usually 2-4 readings per week about mid-long length. Each week we had to submit questions to our TA as proof of having read the papers, but this wasn't a huge percentage of our grade.

There were 3 assignments: 1 to observe a sports game, 1 to interview/analyze an interview of an athlete, and 1 to write a biography on an athlete. Each of these assignments required us to apply core concepts. These were the bulk of the grade. They weren't too bad, but it depends on the TA that grades it. They were all also group assignments, so individually not that much work.

Aomar Boum was a pretty decent lecturer. He didn't record the lectures, but he did upload slides. The slides didn't have a lot of information either so if you wanted to learn the material you had to go to lecture.

I'm not sure how often this class is taught, but it wasn't very high stakes. It was easy and the topic was interesting. I would take it again.

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