ANTH 3020

This class was an excellent overview to anthropology as a discipline, starting at its history and going to its modern-day applications in other disciplines with extreme relevance to present day career opportunities that are available for those that pursue an Anthropology major or minor. Dr. Ramirez was one of the best professors to teach this class, he clearly cares so much about the content and is very knowledgeable about anthropology discipline-wide despite being an archaeologist. I would recommend this class for anyone who is topically interesting in anthropology and wants rich class discussions that Dr. Ramirez supports and helps direct without making the class straight-up lecture only.

There are reading reactions due every morning at 11am before class which are only 100 word "reactions" to the readings for that class, and make up the bulk of the class grade. There is also a participation grade which consists of speaking at least once per week and also attendance. There is also a final podcast project with milestone assignments due for this project throughout the semester, and essentially entails doing ethnographic research into a problem at UVA and presenting your findings in podcast format. The workload is very manageable and since the class and professor was so enjoyable I never felt like the readings were a burden. #tCFS25