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!

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.

Professor Cattelino is an amazing professor. Her lectures were extremely engaging, and I really enjoying learning about the different topics within the class. Additionally, she was super considerate of her students in the midst of the pandemic, from extending deadlines when needed to offering extra credit to help cushion our grades. The readings were pretty lengthy, and I didn't end up reading all of them, but I still felt pretty okay with the content as long as I watched the lectures. The discussions help immensely with learning the material, so I'd suggest going (and have at least 3-4 points ready to add). The weekly quizzes were really easy, the answers were in the lectures for the most part. I don't think the papers were too bad, I think as long as you keep up with the class lectures and familiarize yourself with 2 readings, you'll do good.

I took this class in my first quarter as a transfer and it was a great class. It was alot of work more than my two upper div classes but it is 5 units so makes sense. The professor was super understanding of difficulties what with being online and all the circumstances that came with it. I didn't always do the reading fully or I would skim it and make sure I had something I could add to the discussion sections. Go to section, it brought a lot of understanding to the readings, if I didn't really do the reading that week, I would make sure I took notes during section and those really helped when it came time ot write papers. There were only two papers total and weekly quizzes. Would 100% recommend great class, professor, and TAs.

The essays for this class were pretty difficult. They require a lot of analysis and social interpretation, and your grade heavily depends on how strict your TA is. If you are good at reading between the lines and developing complex ideas and arguments, this class is for you. If you are looking for an easy GE like I did, don't take this class.

This class material and Professor Cattelino's lectures are quite engaging. I enjoyed the assigned readings, which is why I didn't mind the depth and overall length of them. If you do not enjoy this material, however, you WILL struggle. The weekly assigned readings have to be understood quite well because participation in the discussion sessions are graded and the essays are graded a little harshly depending on the TA.

Do not take this class for a GE unless there is really nothing better open. Save ur social analysis for a different quarter. The readings can be interesting but honestly, the essays are really difficult to grasp. I consistently got a low B on the essays and a C on the midterm. Even with a 96 in the class and 100% participation, I ended up with a B+. It was an annoying class, worst grade so far at UCLA.

This review may be biased, as I was not a fan of anthropology as a subject, but I found Professor Cattelino's lectures to be a bit dry and my TA really screwed me as far as grading goes. The readings aren't really necessary, except for the ones you have to cover in your essays, and the midterm and final are super easy if you attend lecture and take notes.