David Stoll
ANTH
This class felt like a bit of a slog. Expect to read a book + watch a movie per week, with no course materials newer than 2005. Speaking of things that haven't been updated since the naughts, lectures are done with a whiteboard and marker in lieu of slides. Quizzes and tests ask pretty hyperspecific questions from lectures, but if you're savvy while studying, you can predict what he's going to ask pretty easily. All in all, not the most difficult class but definitely time intensive, and the idiosyncracies in lectures, readings, and tests kind of cloud how cool the material is.
This class felt like a bit of a slog. Expect to read a book + watch a movie per week, with no course materials newer than 2005. Speaking of things that haven't been updated since the naughts, lectures are done with a whiteboard and marker in lieu of slides. Quizzes and tests ask pretty hyperspecific questions from lectures, but if yo …Read more
I enjoyed this course and I think that it provided a variety of important frameworks that are crucial to understand in future anthropology classes. The course certainly moves quickly and requires a lot of nightly reading, but it is manageable and rewarding if you can keep up with it. The reading amount in this course isn't crazy compared to other anthropology courses.
Stoll's assigned readings were mostly fascinating but sometimes incredibly confusing and in the weeds. He is clearly very smart. He doesn't use slides and class feels like we are trying to follow his personal train of thoughts which are hard to follow Nonetheless, I do think there is value in the content and how he pushes us to think-- even if he is looking for something very specific.
Stoll's assigned readings were mostly fascinating but sometimes incredibly confusing and in the weeds. He is clearly very smart. He doesn't use slides and class feels like we are trying to follow his personal train of thoughts which are hard to follow Nonetheless, I do think there is value in the content and how he pushes us to think …Read more