Review:
Professor Bailey has great passion for anthropology and clearly is an expert in his field, but he is also very aware of the fact that most of his 200 student class is there to fill a science requirement. He did not seem to put much effort into teaching this class, as shown by disorganized lectures and arbitrary grading techniques. The tests did not necessarily reflect what was taught in class, but somehow a 55 could still place you in the B range. As frustrating as this disorganization was, I still learned a lot from Professor Bailey, and he has a wealth of information to share. He seems like he would be a good professor in a higher level anthro class in which he knows his students share his passion for the material.

Workload:
Readings from the textbooks were divided rather unevenly between the 3 tests (the first test was based on 3 chapters, the last on 7). The tests are short and come in two versions, and usually one is much harder than the other, so there is a curve to even out the two tests. Grading is often less than fair, but the curves leave most of the class with Bs.

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