Okay, so Schachner's class is pretty easy, one quiz every other week, and two papers make up 90% of your grade. The other 10% are attendance if you have him in-person, but for online Spring 2020 it was usually just very short assignments on some reading material.

He also drops your lowest quiz and your lowest paper, so I got lucky and got to finish the class by Week 8. (besides a couple participation assignments) The quizzes are usually pretty straightforward, I would just transcribe the shit out of his lectures and if your quizzes aren't open-note, just try to memorize it to the best of your ability. If it is open-note, go ham on the command-F lmao. I'm not a very good writer but I'd say the papers were relatively straightforward, most people I know got an A/A- which was good enough for the class.

While the class is somewhat easy, it comes at the price of being quite dry (at least for myself). That may be my fault for not picking a GE that I found interesting and instead one that wouldn't cause me too much stress but I found a lot of the lectures kind of boring. It may have also been because for Spring 2020, all lectures were recorded and there were no live lectures at all, but I found it hard to be interested in the material. Doing work for the class just involved rolling up my sleeves and gritting my teeth through it.

Would recommend if you have a heavy schedule and want to knock out a chill GE though...

Super easy GE, Grading: 20% discussion, and 5 papers (lowest one dropped) 20% each. The papers were 700 words each and really easy, all you had to do was just crtl F the keywords from the questions in the readings.

Class structure is just 5 essays, worst score is dropped

For anyone looking to take an easy GE, Anthro 2 with Schachner is the way to go. Lecture attendance was never required, but they were podcasted if you wanted to listen afterwards. Lecture slides were always posted, so you could always go over them on your own. Before each lecture, there was a suggested portion of reading that usually was an article on a posted website, but if you didn't do it, you were never confused in lecture. Grading was five 700-word essays that were all weighted equally that were every other week. You get from Monday morning when the prompt was posted until Wednesday at 11:59. Let's be real, to do well on the essays you just need to go through the posted slides, the answers for the prompts were right on there. While going to lecture and listening to what he said was helpful, you could scrape by without it. Discussions were interesting, and required that you go and say one thing a week and you can get full credit. As a STEM major, this was a dream of a GE and I would highly recommend it to anyone.

Great class! Professor is very passionate about the subject and clearly wants to portray the concepts to students. Essay topics can be hard but are very easy if you refer back to the notes and lectures. Also, grammar was super important in the exams and graders were super lenient if you went slightly over the word count. PLUS, Prof. Schachner was very understanding about the TA strike and the consequences it had on all parties. Overall, amazing and very engaging class.

I would recommend Anthro-2 by Prof. Schachner to anyone who is looking to fulfil the Historical Analysis GE without adding too much workload. There are no mid-terms and finals. Only 700 words long essays due once in two weeks. 4 best essays out of 5 are considered for the final grade. The professor truly cares about his students and is very, very passionate about what he delivers in lectures. Sections in this class are quite engaging too. I do not regret taking this class at all.

Took this while still in online format. Course consisted of 5 exams throughout the quarter, one of which you could drop. Your best four exams were worth 80% and just going to section was 20%. Exams were 2 page short essays that you had three days to complete. Solid GE. Lectures were not very engaging but material was interesting at points. Recommend 100% Schachner a G

The lectures were 100% remote this quarter, and were posted asynchronously. He broke them up into shorter videos, which was very helpful. The lectures can be a bit monotonous at times, and I lost interest in the material towards the end, but overall this class is an easy GE. There are five "quizzes," which are 700 word essays which you have a couple of days to complete. He drops the lowest score, so you can skip on altogether if you want to. I was able to finish the class 2 weeks early because of this, as the final was just the fifth quiz. I found the discussions to be very interesting. I definitely recommend taking this if you're looking for an easy GE with a light workload, it was about half as much work as my other classes.

This class was still online for me Fall 2021 with in-person discussions and a few virtual discussions. I was in the virtual discussion.

The class was easy enough. 5 shorts papers with the lowest grade being dropped along with discussion attendance making up your grade. I would definitely take the class again if I could.

Only downside was that the professor did not have the best mic quality and I often felt like someone was screaming in my ear when watching lectures.

TAKE THIS CLASS. Professor Schachner was amazing. You can just tell from the way he talks how much respect he has for others and is just an incredible person. Why you should trust my review? I'm from south campus and took this just wanting the easy A. It was an easy A but also was very interesting and kinda makes me want to minor in archaeology now.

Grading: An essay every other week based on the previous two weeks material. Roughly 700 words each and he drops the worst one aka if you do well you only have to do 4 short essays out of the 5. Also participation in discussion is mandatory but my TA (Eden Franz) always had an engaging discussion filled with extra tidbits which was interesting and helped with the essays. Basically just 4 essays and show up.

This class covers the dawn of humanity up until the conquistadors disrupted American civilizations and focused on how material culture and sites explain human behavior. I always associated archaeology with Indiana Jones as in find some cool shiny stuff and put it in a museum but this class really focused on the humans behind the objects. My mind was absolutely blown with how cool the past actually is. We watched how stone tools were made (called flint knapping!) which changed my perspective from dumb humans hit some rocks together to actually viewing them as skilled craftsmen who carefully fine-tuned their tools. We also learned a little about what research is like as Prof. used his own pictures to teach us what surveying is and the other tools archaeologists use in the field. This class also tackled the importance of archaeology today and how to respectfully work with the direct descendants of the artifacts/sites studied, aka how to not continually shit on native and First Nation people. We covered some modern policies that help them reclaim the bones and artifacts that we stole from them as well as the struggle between science and respect. This class just brought up so many different points that forced my mindset to open as I had to imagine who the people behind shiny objects were and I highly highly recommend if you wanna learn about cool things without the stress of a grade.