Prof. Cattelino is an amazing professor! I took this class because it was a pre-req for my major but afterwards, I enjoyed it so much that I decided to pick up an anthropology minor! She is extremely understanding of these "unprecedented times" and allowed students who missed quizzes (for whatever reasons) to make them up often, and she even gave everyone a 5% grade boost at the end of the quarter because she knows this was a rough few months for everyone. The readings are a lot of work and very time-consuming, so if you don't want to dedicate a lot of time to this class, maybe don't take it- but I found the readings super interesting. The essays may seem very daunting and vague at first, but my TA was extremely helpful and broke down the prompt/how to write an anthropology paper in section. I think the grade breakdown was 25% for both midterm and final papers, 30% for weekly quizzes (lowest dropped), and 20% for participation during section. Highly recommend this class!

I'm very surprised at how highly this class is rated. I love sociology, and thought an anthro class would be really interesting! However, the class was incredibly boring. Dry, long readings that created way too much of a workload. Lectures were also boring, and poorly designed---very little structure to them, the direction the class was going always felt unclear. The actual topics covered in lecture were very simple and easy to understand, although the professor taught them as if they were confusing and complex. This is likely why this class is highly rated, as it is easy in terms of concepts.

I took this as a hopefully easy GE because it seemed interesting and let's just say I learned my lesson! Professor Cattelino is definitely a kind, funny, passionate, and truly knowledgeable professor, however the course is (in my opinion) not the easiest or best GE out there.

The grading breakdown was:
- Discussion Participation, 15% (you get one absence per quarter)
- Two 5-page Papers, 25% each
- Nine quizzes, 15%
- Final exam, 20%
- Minor extra credit from mid-quarter feedback form

The papers really stressed me out. I felt like the expectations from my TA were far higher than they should have been given our limited ethnographical writing experience, and I got docked for a lot of random things on the rubric (which was also really confusing). I went to my TA for help before the second paper and it was probably the most unhelpful conversation I have ever had in my life!

There are a LOT of readings to do, and I didn't really do them well, though it probably would have helped. They honestly were pretty interesting but this was my GE class and the amount of work was a lot in comparison to the 4 other STEM classes I was taking. The quizzes are mostly just about lecture and the readings though.

Lectures themselves were so long, and honestly most of the content felt like glorified common sense. Professor is really nice and asks questions but I honestly stopped going and started watching them on like 3x speed later on.

The final was difficult to gauge because she didn't give us any topics or study guide with the reasoning that part of good studying is figuring out what we needed to know by ourselves..... but it was not bad, definitely doable with studying key buzzwords (literally all I did) and the readings/specific situations and themes.

Averages for everything (papers and exams) were in the mid 80's. I got mid 90's for the second paper and final which is I think what pushed me into an A, but was fully expecting to not get an A. This was definitely a tough GE with very high expectations from my TA that made me feel really confused and defeated at times. I would take this if you have some sort of interest in the concepts, but then again I did too and here I am... :)

I would never take this class as a GE. Expect 60 pages of reading a week. I don't think the professor does a good job fleshing out concepts. She also provides you with no study guide even though lots of things are briefly talked about so it becomes hard to tell what to focus on. You can't get away with not reading.

First off, this was the course I used to determine on whether I wanted to pursue a minor in anthropology, and needless to say, I'm convinced. Professor Cattelino was great, and every reading was interesting.
I really enjoyed discussing topics in discussion during class, but felt like there was not enough of that. I feel as though it is easier to grasp concepts when people share their own experiences. I thought lectures were pretty engaging and full of great material.
Overall I really enjoyed this class. A lot of people said that there were too many readings, and while I agree that it was a lot (each week's readings took a good chunk of my weekend), they were almost all worth it. I thought that the essay prompts were kind of fun to write almost, and were very thought provoking.

I'm sure a lot of people liked this class, but for me it just wasn't it. I thought that a lot of the topics were very surface level and not explored in sufficient or satisfying amounts of depth.

Cattelino is a pretty organized professor, who regularly reaches out over email with announcements and assignment guidelines. The course is very easy, with weekly quizzes about the reading to check your knowledge. It did feel like the course was very general and sometimes self-explanatory if you've taken other humanities classes with themes about intersectionality, etc., however.

Professor Cattelino is very kind, considerate, and accommodating. The only assignments were weekly low-stakes quizzes (super easy as long as you pay attention to the lectures) which consisted of multiple choice questions and one short-response question (which may or may not rely on the readings for the week) and two term papers which were a little challenging to start, but the professor and TAs were very helpful and gave lots of feedback on how to write them. As someone who is not a social science major, I found this class to be an overwhelming amount of reading, but were usually thought provoking and interesting. In addition to the required texts for the course, a VPN is required for most readings. I would say the actual content of the course isn't difficult but the reading is dense.

Prof. Cattelino was amazing. Her lectures are very clear and interesting. Plus, she was very understanding of her students situations due to the pandemic and was open to extending deadlines for students who needed it. The weekly quizzes were not difficult and were great to just make sure you were absorbing the material in the lectures (almost all answers were literally in the lectures themselves). While the readings could be a little daunting, they were actually very interesting. I would 100% recommend anyone take this class.

An easy and interesting class if you do the readings and attend discussion actively. Professor Cattelino is so nice and very accommodating about classes being over zoom. Lectures were all recorded and quizzes were taken over a 12 hour time frame and open note. The two essays were not that much work and there were opportunities for extra credit.