Update: This class has changed to Anthropology 137Q.

Professor Hollan is by far my favorite professor that I have taken at UCLA so far. He is so funny, wise, kind, and a great lecturer. He does not utilize slides and verbally presents his lectures, so if you are someone who can not learn from hearing someone lecture for an hour and a half, this class isn't for you. Aside from adjusting to that, I loved this class! There are three novels that we were required to read and an essay following each one that accounted for 65% of the grade. The midterm (super easy; term and definitions) and final (same format) accounted for 10% each and the remaining 15% of the grade was from participation and attendance in section. He doesn't grade anything himself, so I guess it really depends on who your TA is. Mine was Marissa Berwald and I loved her, favorite TA thus far! Would definitely recommend and I'm hoping to take another class with him.

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.

This class taught me a lot. His class was scheduled really early in the morning so half the battle was waking up to get there. It is imperative that you attend class because it will highlight the most important things in the readings. He gives you a shit ton of readings to go over. I stopped after four weeks and just focused on the readings that were important to the papers. Most of your grade will be the papers so be sure to do well on them, the TA's don't grade hard, but the concepts require a good amount of understanding to get a good grade.
The short exams aren't hard, just skim over the readings and cross examine them with lecture to find key concepts. That's all the short exams are, define key concepts. Nothing to really worry about. The final was the 3rd short paper.

Breakdown of Class
3 papers
2 Short exams
Section attendance

Suprised not to see more negative reviews on here. First thing, he does not use lecture slides,he just talks with no particular organization. So if you struggle with auditory learning, you will struggle with this class. Also the class is very paper based, only 20% of your grade comes fron two short exams. Its a little tough to motivate yourself when you don't need the lectures for the papers, just the exams, leading to a lot of grades being dragged down by really bad exam scores. The exams are very short so forgetting something minor results in a very low grade on the exam. Not my favorite class, though not my least either. You might want to consider beforehand how seriously you take psychoanalysis.