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Cady Gonzalez
ANTH260 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/27/2025 |
This class was a very easy gened and she was a good professor, I would take it if you can. The class consisted of a weekly small independent quiz (5 mcq online) and a medium size quiz (10-15 q’s in class with a group) and a weekly field journal which took about 30 minutes max and was an easy 10/10. Ngl there was readings to do from the textbook and a reading that she would give out weekly but I kind of just skimmed them before class and I was all set. She never gave us our grade from the final we took which is weird but the class was easy and she was really nice. Easy A. |
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Cady Gonzalez
ANTH260 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/16/2025 |
To preface this review, we are two students who took this class together, each leaving what we hope will be a quality review for future students to come. We are not usually conspiracy theorists, but we will allow ourselves this; Cady Gonzalez is not of this earth. Her mannerisms, aphorisms, and general patterns of speech resemble strongly those of an alien who had a week to prepare a study on human culture and behavior and then was dropped into the field. Now, a real alien would be expected to improve over time, but Professor Gonzalez is either incapable of sustained experiential learning or her memory is erased in a back room of the ArtSoc building where she is kept after every class. Let's get down to business. The class itself was interesting, and the content was consistently engaging and intellectually stimulating, while the assignments and workload were extremely manageable and easy. However, if you are taking this class to genuinely learn the field of cultural anthropology, look elsewhere. To the non discerning eye, she could be described as a professor. She lectured, assigned work, and provided weekly group quizzes that were easy and doable. But under closer examination, you'd soon realize that this woman has clearly never left the building where lecture is held. For a cultural anthropologist, she sure has no concept of cultural anthropology that these two students could glean from her lectures. We "covered" things like race, witchcraft, medicalization, gender, ethics, and other riveting topics, but they were mostly taught about in the form of Professor Gonzalez summarizing a reading. A typical class period looks like this: you walk in, early by perhaps 2 minutes, to see the lecturers desk empty in the large and extremely stale lecture hall. After you are settled, Cady Gonzalez and her graduate TA (see Subhadeep Das for our opinions on this guy) walk in, always both wearing something absurd like jeans higher waisted than a millennial mothers or a turtleneck that has more neck than you have ever seen in your life, giraffes included. After wrestling with her computer (we are not yet certain whether or not she has seen a computer before), she will then either begin her lecture, or hand out a simple group quiz based on the questions due before class. If she tries to play a video, which is frequent, it will not work. Let's now jump approximately 20 minutes into this 50 minute class, which is about when what could be called lecture begins. She will read off of a printed packet of papers that has her lecture script typed out and ready, sometimes with highlights and notes, sometimes not. She will never look up from these notes ever. She will perhaps pose what seems to the listener to be a question, but will not pause for answers, or will and then will dislike whatever you say no matter how relevant it may be to the topic (note: be ready to hear the phrase "Hmm!" about 400,000 times throughout the semester). Then, after you are sure that there are no lullabies better suited to the stressed college student than the lecture of the day, she will conclude service and free the student body from the room. Quick note- do not ask her about what is in the syllabus. The entire ELMS grade book is full of assignments and work that are completely foreign to both her and Subhadeep. They also grade with about the speed of a stationary terrapin. Here are some highlights of things that she has said and/or done during lecture: -"2pm is a hard time of day for me" -"Buying... yogurt at the bodega" -"In the..... southern region" [in reference to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she did her PhD research] -"Addis Ababa" [she cannot say it right. she did her research there] -The lecture on curse words and their relation to gender... -"There is a lot of pride in the American lawn" -"I hope this picture looks familiar to you" [a picture of McKeldin Mall] -House MD/Seinfeld clips -"Her condition is that she is pregnant and her situation is that she is about to give birth" In conclusion, this course does, in fact, fulfill a requirement and provide official credits from the University of Maryland, College Park. It will also, however, leave you with a lingering sense of confusion, brain fog, and hatred for cultural anthropology in its every capacity. We have reason to believe that this professor was created in a lab to be CIA psyop planned by none other than Ronald Reagan designed to deter the modern student from studying cultural anthropology in any capacity. The class itself was easy, you are unlikely to fail if you can turn in assignments on time, and it was a interesting class to say the least, but we the students of Fall 2025 ANTH260 warn you that you will be entertained. |