ANTHRO M166Q
Culture Area of Maghrib (North Africa)
Description: (Same as Arabic M171 and History M108C.) Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Introduction to North Africa, especially Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, also known as Maghrib or Tamazgha. Topics include changing notions of personal, tribal, ethnic, linguistic and religious identities; colonialism; gender and legal rights, changing representations of Islam, and religions in region's public spaces. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Most Helpful Review
Fall 2025 - This professor is okay to say the least, his class is a really difficult to follow he uses slides which are points for him to follow. Then he will go on about topics off from what he was talking about. He writes on the board with no consistency. Besides that easy workload a reading response due an hour before the class starts and the final is a 8 page double spaced image analysis. Grades harsh near to impossible to earn a 10 highest score I ever received was a 9.7/10 with no comments on how to improve. No TA he grades everything himself.
Fall 2025 - This professor is okay to say the least, his class is a really difficult to follow he uses slides which are points for him to follow. Then he will go on about topics off from what he was talking about. He writes on the board with no consistency. Besides that easy workload a reading response due an hour before the class starts and the final is a 8 page double spaced image analysis. Grades harsh near to impossible to earn a 10 highest score I ever received was a 9.7/10 with no comments on how to improve. No TA he grades everything himself.
Most Helpful Review
Professor Slyomovics is very approachable and a good lecturer. She does not use powerpoints, but she writes most of the important points on the board and puts boxes around most of the important key terms. (Emphasis on MOST. Not all.) She does assign a LOT of reading, and combined with the assigned films it ended up being a lot of work... but the workload was nevertheless doable. The class consisted of a midterm, a paper, a final, and attendance. (The syllabus said participation, but you don't really need to participate. Just come to class every day on time and sign in. She does pass around a sign in sheet.) The paper was cake, I believe it was only 5 pages. As far as the midterm and the final go, we were given absolutely no instruction. She does not believe in study guides, so mainly what you have to go off of are the things she wrote on the board. She will also use concepts from the reading and the films. The grader was very harsh, at least on the midterm. There are specific points that we were supposed to hit on the essays which was difficult because the essay questions were so vague. I don't know whether this was per Slyomovics' instructions, or whether the grader happened to be very harsh. I ended up with an A-.
Professor Slyomovics is very approachable and a good lecturer. She does not use powerpoints, but she writes most of the important points on the board and puts boxes around most of the important key terms. (Emphasis on MOST. Not all.) She does assign a LOT of reading, and combined with the assigned films it ended up being a lot of work... but the workload was nevertheless doable. The class consisted of a midterm, a paper, a final, and attendance. (The syllabus said participation, but you don't really need to participate. Just come to class every day on time and sign in. She does pass around a sign in sheet.) The paper was cake, I believe it was only 5 pages. As far as the midterm and the final go, we were given absolutely no instruction. She does not believe in study guides, so mainly what you have to go off of are the things she wrote on the board. She will also use concepts from the reading and the films. The grader was very harsh, at least on the midterm. There are specific points that we were supposed to hit on the essays which was difficult because the essay questions were so vague. I don't know whether this was per Slyomovics' instructions, or whether the grader happened to be very harsh. I ended up with an A-.
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