The class isn't so bad, you just need to make sure you understand and listen to the lectures. I would listen to all the lectures on podcast and pause and go and he went through it. It's a lot of material, not necessarily hard though. I never read the book, but really knew my lectures well and did well in the class. The entire class is based on your midterm and final. Just study hard and you should be fine. I have all my notebook with all the lectures notes and my study guides. They should be efficient to do well in the class.

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Professor Barrett is a very knowledgeable instructor and he has a lot of interesting ideas. However, the way that he poses most of this information is extremely hard to follow as he tends to go on tangents about the information, oftentimes giving us too much information or going too broadly. He also appears to have changed his grading schemes and I'm not sure if it was for the better. His new style is to have 3, 20-question quizzes that equal 30% of your grade. These were quite difficult to get a good grade on due to his choice of wording. There was little mercy in the grading of these quizzes either and he rarely elaborated afterwards about why the answer was right or wrong.

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ANTHROPOLOGY 124Q- Evolutionary Psychology

Hey guys, I didn't end up taking this course but I do have the course reader for Professor Barrett's Anthro 124Q- Evolutionary Psychology course reader (which you need to purchase for the class)
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Dr. Barrett provides a lot of great insights to the field of evolutionary psychology, integrating concepts from evolutionary developmental biology and anthropology to create a truly interdisciplinary course. The grading is fair and the exams are doable. However, he does tend to ramble a lot, and sometimes the readings felt redundant because he would end up covering the material in class. You should be fine if you have a good background in evolutionary biology, tbh.

Awesome professor and class. He wrote the textbook and most ideas are his own, so pay attention in lecture and take thorough notes and you should be fine. I never really read the textbook, just skimmed when necessary. He provides the textbook and study guides for quizzes (which are extremely lengthy but overall helpful). There are short, weekly reflections, 3 quizzes (taken on canvas outside of class), and a 4 page final paper on a topic of your choosing that relates to the class. The material got tricky at times but I definitely recommend Professor Barrett!

i took anthro7 with silk in 09w, and we had this guy as a guest lecturer one time when professor silk was gone at a conference. My adivce: take anthropology 7 with silk. She at least has a good enough grasp on the material to present it in a coherent fashion. This dude sounded like he was constantly struggling to think of the words in his next sentence - he would pause every few seconds to think of what to say next, and it just made him really painful to listen to. I usually go to silk's lectures, but if i had this guy i'm sure i would NEVER go to lecture, cause he sucks at lecturing. To be fair, he probably had to cover for her on short notice, and it wasn't even his own powerpoint that he was presenting, but like i said, its just painful listening to him talk. Professor silk doesn't add many brilliant insights to the material either (she mostly just goes over the improtant points in the reading) but her lectures flow, and you feel like you understand the material better after hearing her talk about it. My opinion is just based on one lecture, so it is kind of biased, but i'd definitely take the class with Silk if i had a choice.

I was looking forward to this course. Flipping through the textbook before the class began, I was eager to learn all the material. However, the lectures proved little more than summarizing the previous lecture and copying-and-pasting images, charts, and passages from the textbook onto the powerpoint slide. By reading most of the textbook, staying half-awake in discussions, and never attending lectures, I pulled off a B+. If I had finished reading the second half of the textbook, I would have easily obtained an A. The class grade is 10% discussion, 40% midterm, and 50% final. The midterm and final is free response and takes forever. The answers on his answer key for the first midterm were very specific - he always insisted that we need not write more than a few sentences to answer each question, but most students wrote as much as possible, hoping to get a few points for the specific answer he was looking for.

I was very disappointed with this class. Professor Joan Silk co-wrote the textbook, and I believe that in taking her class you would gain valuable insight on the concepts presented in the book, unlike in Prof. Barrett's class.