Reviews for ANTH265

Information Review
Laura Gilchrest
ANTH265

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
09/03/2024 		She is a bit disorganized but if you take this class over the summer it doesn’t matter at all. Over the summer this was the easiest gened I’ve ever taken. If you are looking for an easy A gened, ANTH265 over the summer with her is a great choice for sure.
Laura Gilchrest
ANTH265

Expecting an A
Anonymous
06/01/2024 		Dr. G structures her courses well, in my opinion. Sometime the course content of Global Health is drab, but Dr. G has a good energy. Do your work, she is not very lenient (not a bad thing, but an fyi).
Laura Gilchrest
ANTH265

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/17/2023 		Dr Gilchrist is a pretty decent professor, I don't have much to complain about. She makes her grading policies pretty clear and this class is very easy to pass/ get an A. Lectures are on the boring side, however, not all are necessary to attend, in my opinion.
Laura Gilchrest
ANTH265

Expecting an A
Anonymous
10/26/2023 		I can't accurately predict my grade, because it is half way through the semester and only two grades are in. Her class is incredibly disorganized and heavily dependent on reading. The topic is already not interesting and they make it so much more difficult to pay attention their class (or even go to class for that matter). Most students have stopped showing up to class because she doesn't take participation points, and I'm genuinely convinced she still doesn't know our names half way through the semester. She is also disrespectful to her students when they have questions during class, which is frustrating. The only redeeming factor about this course is that we don't have any exams or quizzes. For that reason (and for 3 Gen Ed requirements), I would take it again. But I find it very difficult to think of any other benefits of taking this class.
Laura Gilchrest
ANTH265

Anonymous
09/26/2023 		Makes it about herself often, says being concerned about homeless people in an area makes you a bad person because you are "making it worse", denies science behind obesity and its affects on the organs. Claims Anthropologists know more about the state of global health than doctors and that doctors are the problem because of her own past. Course itself is easy enough, topics are pretty easy to make sense of but this style of professor is not fun.
Laura Gilchrest
ANTH265

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/08/2023 		She grades very harshly on some assignments and is extremally disorganized. She would put out assignments/discussions the night before they were due and you had to find time to do them. The syllabus also has wrong dates all over it and she refused to correct the dates so it can be very easy to miss an assignment or due date. The syllabus also had a list of all the assignments and their weight that we would have to do during the course and the list was completely wrong. The assignment descriptions were also very vague and there were no rubrics to see so it was very easy to do an assignment wrong and get a bad grade. Overall, If you like an organized class and like to time manage then this class will be a nightmare. If you can go with the flow then it probably won't be as bad but...
Laura Gilchrest
ANTH265

Anonymous
12/20/2022 		Dr. Gilchrest made this class extremely boring. She always seems to be disorganized and rambles on with no structure in her lessons. I swear she probably could've made the class 100 times better by including powerpoints, but no, you instead get rambles on the whiteboard and an absolute unnecessary amount of readings. The assignments aren't exactly easy either, and she is a pretty harsh grader. Class isn't too bad, but definitely take a different teacher if you can to keep your sanity.
Laura Gilchrest
ANTH265

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/14/2022 		This class is pointless and Dr. G is extremely boring. Luckily, the class is only once a week and requires very little work. Oddly, she graded our writing assignments much more harshly than expected, especially considering how long they took to complete. Take this class for the credit and the lack of work, but beware of basically a waste of time.
Laura Gilchrest
ANTH265

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
09/02/2022 		The professor goes into great detail of the class topics and makes us go see a deeper outlook in global health. Meetings were twice a week on zoom (as it was a summer online course) and there was a lot of assigned readings. Downside of the class was how we had less than 5 homework assignments, and the professor seems to be a bit picky in slight point deductions when making comments about how we answered the questions. There was two projects, however, she only graded the final project while the team project was never considered for grading, which made it a waste of time. The final project was fairly easy to complete since the requirements were straightforward. All-in-all, this course is good and the professor is decent. It would have been better if she graded both projects instead on one.
Laura Gilchrest
ANTH265

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
07/13/2021 		Fast paced (as expected of a summer course) but the weekly meetings really are a terrific way to dive deeper into the various class topics. I really enjoyed participating in her class as she poses questions that make you think about the state of global health. She's very hands-off but is an amazing communicator and gives amazing feedback on every writing assignment. I would definitely recommend as a professor.
Kyla Cools
ANTH265

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
03/10/2021 		Solid prof, knows the information well, interesting discussions. Take it if you are in the health field
Kyla Cools
ANTH265

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/17/2021 		Good teacher, clearly knows the subject well.
Thurka Sangaramoorthy
ANTH265

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/15/2021 		This course was consistently insightful. Dr. Sangaramoorthy is an awesome professor and knows this subject like the back of her hand.