This class felt more like a high school English class then an Anthropology class about the Amazon. The zoom meetings were pretty much just a discussion of feelings and typical Marxist jargon. What turned me off was that the text for this class was written by him so we kinda just gave him a bonus when all the class bought it on Amazon

This class was super laidback and really enjoyable. Weekly meetings on Zoom and attendance was taken. Read his book which was interesting. Had fun assignments, like a film analysis. Gives study guides for tests. Very approachable and respects his students. I recommend this class!

The lectures are so boring and he just likes to hear himself talk about his own research. The content of the class is really self-explanatory which is nice. Overall, the class is easy, but I just dislike that his lectures are mandatory because they are genuinely not useful.

Lot of the material on exams comes from lecture and textbook readings. Professor's lectures are interesting and his slides are useful, attendance is mandatory but only counts some of the iclickers so missing is not a big deal. 2 papers that are relatively easy.

I really liked prof hoelle! he was really funny and engaging. lectures were a little boring but not bad. sections were mandatory and lecture occasionally had iclickers. There's two short papers but your grade really depends on who ur TA is. midterm was in person but the final was online and was way too long for the amount of time we were given.

Lectures could get boring but overall it was a pretty chill class. Paper guidelines were vague and your grade just depended on your TA. Its a good ge requirement.