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Enjoyed this class. Highly recommend!
Akhil Gupta's Development Anthropology class was hands down one of the most interesting classes I took in college. His lectures and reading material helped me contextualize international development in a way no other class at UCLA was able to do. Though the multiple choice questions on his tests are worded a little funky, I think if you read the material, you will be able to do well in this class. The curve is also in your favor.
The premise of this class is interesting, but I took this online (S21) and it was extremely dry. The lectures were recorded but I stopped watching them after the few few weeks without any issues. The assignments were fairly light and easy. There was a food diary, a reflection on a book about medical anthropology, and then you could either write one long paper+1 short reflection on the readings or do 4 short reflections. They were all graded fairly easily. There were definitely a lot of "required" readings, but unless it's for a paper, you only really needed to skim them. Professor Gupta is not a great lecturer and does not engage much but he is very well connected in his field and we had some interesting guest lecturers. Overall, it was not a great experience but was a pretty easy A.
Akhil Gupta's Development Anthropology class was hands down one of the most interesting classes I took in college. His lectures and reading material helped me contextualize international development in a way no other class at UCLA was able to do. Though the multiple choice questions on his tests are worded a little funky, I think if you read the material, you will be able to do well in this class. The curve is also in your favor.
The premise of this class is interesting, but I took this online (S21) and it was extremely dry. The lectures were recorded but I stopped watching them after the few few weeks without any issues. The assignments were fairly light and easy. There was a food diary, a reflection on a book about medical anthropology, and then you could either write one long paper+1 short reflection on the readings or do 4 short reflections. They were all graded fairly easily. There were definitely a lot of "required" readings, but unless it's for a paper, you only really needed to skim them. Professor Gupta is not a great lecturer and does not engage much but he is very well connected in his field and we had some interesting guest lecturers. Overall, it was not a great experience but was a pretty easy A.