Professor
Douglas Hollan
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Most Helpful Review
This is one of my very favorite classes at UCLA. Hollan is excellent. You read the coolest books and actually write fun papers where you get to be an ethnographer and observe others and then write about what you saw. The papers were the easiest papers I have ever written, very straight-forward. The subject matter of the course is really good. Prof. Hollan is super nice and does an excellent job of preparing you for the exam. Just go to lecture and read and you will ace the class! If you want to bring up your GPA and are interested in learning about different cultures take this class with Hollan.
This is one of my very favorite classes at UCLA. Hollan is excellent. You read the coolest books and actually write fun papers where you get to be an ethnographer and observe others and then write about what you saw. The papers were the easiest papers I have ever written, very straight-forward. The subject matter of the course is really good. Prof. Hollan is super nice and does an excellent job of preparing you for the exam. Just go to lecture and read and you will ace the class! If you want to bring up your GPA and are interested in learning about different cultures take this class with Hollan.
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Fall 2024 - Lectures are a bit boring in general and no slides but there is some interesting stuff in the class. 2 essays and a few quizzes but the quizzes are take-home so not too bad. The class is a pretty easy A (you still have to put in a decent bit of work), but an A+ is pretty much nonexistent contrary to what the grade distribution says, because he doesn't actually give A+'s to 97%+ grades. He only gives it if you have a perfect 100%, so pretty much nobody.
Fall 2024 - Lectures are a bit boring in general and no slides but there is some interesting stuff in the class. 2 essays and a few quizzes but the quizzes are take-home so not too bad. The class is a pretty easy A (you still have to put in a decent bit of work), but an A+ is pretty much nonexistent contrary to what the grade distribution says, because he doesn't actually give A+'s to 97%+ grades. He only gives it if you have a perfect 100%, so pretty much nobody.
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I found his teaching style to be very understanding. He is clearly interested in his subject and gives in depth answers to most questions. Very open to questions and gives good answers. The essay prompts were fairly easy and I ended with a B, I think my TA had more to do with that.
I found his teaching style to be very understanding. He is clearly interested in his subject and gives in depth answers to most questions. Very open to questions and gives good answers. The essay prompts were fairly easy and I ended with a B, I think my TA had more to do with that.
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