I had such high hopes for Prof. Loyd's course "Careers in Anthro" as an anthro major myself, but honestly the way she taught the course this fall quarter was not very engaging and the assignments consisted of very thorough research in anthro careers that was not at all related to the materials that guest lecturers discussed during the class. In addition, her graders are very, VERY meticulous when grading weekly assignments, which is really difficult bc losing 8 points or so literally brings your grade down SIGNIFICANTLY (like you won't be able to get an A if you lose more than 1 pt per each assignment). I haven't personally had issues with her, but I know that a few of my classmates brought up her grading system bc it isn't clear in the syllabus and there is no rubric for grading, and when they mentioned it to her apparently she was v dismissive towards their comments. honestly, just take the course if you need it for your major requirements bc all you do is listen to different guest lecturers every week, and submit a weekly assignment + final portfolio. otherwise, I wouldn't recommend her but it just sucks bc I was really looking forward to this class and was bummed by the way she treated students + her arbitrary grading scale.

This class is very tedious and unengaging. I went into this course attentive and wanting to learn and participate, however by the end I found myself watching TikToks and scrolling through my phone instead. You do not really learn about careers specific to anthropology, but rather listen to guest lecturers who have at the bare minimum taken an anthropology course in the past and how they try to rudimentarily connect what they have learned with their current careers. These careers include some interesting ones such as UX researchers to some not so interesting ones, to me at least, including accountants and make-up artists.

The assignments feel like busy work, such as taking personality tests and writing on what you found out about yourself, however the grading is very harsh, which seems odd considering you are writing about your subjective experience.

Finally the most frustrating part is how much she stresses having a perfect resume, when her resume and the sample resumes provided do not meet up to her own standards. We had to upload are resumes to VMOCK and achieve a score of 80/100 or higher. However, I uploaded hers and the sample resumes and their scores did not even get close to 80/100.

However, maybe I am just salty considering my resume got marked down despite my VMOCK score being considerably higher than hers. Overall this course and the grading just seem arbitrary.

Although I personally did not have any direct communication with the professor, a number of my peers struggled with her attitude when talking to her out of the lecture setting. Her assignments are more tedious than they are difficult but with no clear grading rubric can be a little stressful.
Overall, it's not hard and I did finish with a resume and LinkedIn profile of a much higher quality than I would have if I didn't do them for a grade, however, if you are looking for a really engaging class then this isn't it.

The only thing I learned in Loyd's class is to avoid her in the future. Unhelpful, rude, (which falls into the realm of unprofessional), and unclear on expectations for assignments.

She's so specific when grading, but doesn't give the class guidance aka "where was _____ mentioned?!?" You can follow the prompt for assignments and still get points off for it "being too short" even though the page limit has been met, and we have been directed to not go over that limit. Overall confusion.

I feel sorry for foreign students, because that can be confusing as well as misleading. This class is not worth the stress it caused me and my classmates. Avoid.