You have to attend every single lecture otherwise the slides will make 0 sense. Just a midterm and final and 5 map quizzes (all the same map), no extra work which I appreciated. I recommend recording lectures because slides have little to no text and you may miss key details that are spoken out loud if you aren't paying attention. Final was 'cumulative,' but he just reused some questions from the midterm on it. He provides study guides for each test/quiz. I got an A+ by obsessively taking notes down to the exact phrasing of every sentence he said, and drawing out everything when studying. By far the most studying I had done for a class (but Lower Central American Arch/history is not my field of study, so keep that in mind). Would probably not take this again as I'm not studying this area of the world. A lot of people did really poorly on the midterm. Make quizlets, do the readings. Overall, great professor, very chill, and wears great shirts.

Make sure you do and *memorize the study guide, the exams are not multiple choice, they are short answer and fill in the blank. However they are not overly difficult and he will typically ask thing like "name five of ___" or "what is this site" or "what is this" (with a pic of an object). So as long as you really study the study guides he provides you will be fine. There are a lot of readings, but you can get by with a skim/basic understanding. *His slides are nearly all pictures so really pay attention to what he says. I would recommend recording as you take notes so you can reference information you might have missed as you fill out the study guide because to study, the slides aren't really useful. Overall I really enjoyed the class.