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L Jen Shaffer ANTH266 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/21/2024	Great professor! No exams at all, just attend the class because there are a lot of in class activities you would have to do throughout the whole semester even though she does drop 2 lowest grade from both group work and individual work. With there being no exams, there are about five major projects you would have to do but they’re not that bad! I’m not an anthropology major or anything bc just took the class since it takes out 3 gen eds. I would recommend this class!
L Jen Shaffer ANTH266 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/02/2024	Great professor! No exams at all just attend the class because there are a lot of in class activities you would have to do throughout the whole semester even though she does drop 2 lowest grade from both group work and individual work. With there being no exams, there are about five major projects you would have to do but they’re not that bad! I’m not an anthropology major or anything bc just took the class since it takes out 3 gen eds. Would recommend this class!
L Jen Shaffer ANTH266 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/19/2023	Shaffer is a great professor! Her lectures are engaging and relevant. She understood that a lot of her students were taking the class as a GenEd and made a conscious effort to keep the courseload reasonable. There were five "large" assignments (all take-home) and participation grades.
L Jen Shaffer ANTH266 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/19/2023	Nice person but grades the essays ridiculously harsh. Or maybe i'm just blind to the fact that my essays suck, take this review as you will, my intention isn't to knock her.
L Jen Shaffer ANTH266 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/14/2023	If you need a easy Gen-ed, I'd highly recommend this class with Professor Shaffer. Mandatory attendance but you learn some pretty cool stuff and you don't have to go to 2-4 of the classes. Assignments aren't hard, just a little time consuming.
Jana Kopelentova Rehak ANTH266 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/29/2023	- Kind professor, very passionate about her field. - The readings and videos we were expected to read/watch for homework essays were kind of long, as were the essays. But they weren’t graded too harshly.
Jana Kopelentova Rehak ANTH266 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/11/2023	Super nice professor. Just write one essay per week and the class is super chill. Professor Rehak is super knowledgable and I highly recommend her.
Jana Kopelentova Rehak ANTH266 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/14/2022	Easy lenient grader on papers. Straight forward prompts, no need to be creative or anything. She's really nice too and her passion makes the topic really interesting too
Jana Kopelentova Rehak ANTH266 Anonymous 05/12/2022	This class was just comprised of weekly readings and an essay, and you only had to show up to the online lecture and discussion to get credit. The discussions and lectures were interesting, and despite them being online, were engaging. My biggest complaint was the lack of clarity of what we had to do for the essays and the grading inconsistency. Also, the readings felt like they went on for a long time, but they were mostly interesting
Jana Kopelentova Rehak ANTH266 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/07/2022	I really liked this class, surprisingly. The writing prompts are fairly easy, and you can quickly write them (within an hour) by just reading the conclusions and talking about your opinions of the topics discussed. English isn't her first language, which honestly helps with the writing prompts as you don't have to put as much work into making sure you have a great line of thought or transitions. Class was always interesting, and she grades really leniently. Highly recommend her for this class, easy gen ed!
L Jen Shaffer ANTH266 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 08/31/2020	I just finished a semester with Dr. Shaffer and honestly she was one of the nicest professors that I have had at umd. Her class weighs heavily on discussions which for a subject such as climate change, it should have more of a discussion based lecture. She is very passionate about her work and is very welcoming when going to office hours. As long as you put in effort in her class you should get a good grade.
L Jen Shaffer ANTH266 Anonymous 05/01/2019	She's passionate about the material that she teaches, I love that. No final exam... just a large project. In class participation is a large portion of your grade so attendance is required. Loved this class!
Jana Kopelentova Rehak ANTH266 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/13/2019	English isn't her first language so she can be hard to understand sometimes, but she cares about the subject. Also because of that, everyone who turned in the writing assignments basically got 100s, so hooray, GPA boost.
L Jen Shaffer ANTH266 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/18/2018	She is a really fun professor. Talks about the material and loves when students come to office hours just to talk. Easy class if you follow the rubric for papers, and no exams!