Dr. Gurven was great in lecture, really interesting material. But, those tests he gives focus into super super little details and are just too difficult. Loved the class, hated the midterm and final.

Professor Gurven is a sweetie. I took Anth5 to fulfill some GE requirements, but you can tell he really cares about his students. The lectures were helpful if you didn't want to review material outside of class, but attendance wasn't mandatory. Grades are based mainly on a weekly assignment that's super easy, one midterm, and the final.

were told that the final would be online open note. A month before the final due to his lack of due diligence he is told by the school that the final has to be in person. Decides to ALSO make it closed notes only 2 pages cheat sheet after we BEGGED he didn't even want to give us 1 page at first. For a 80 question complex final. @ 8 am. Anth 5 btw

The tests were unnecessarily complexly worded. When students asked questions in class or tried to answer his questions, he was pretty condescending.The class is mislabeled as Behavior Ecology on Gold but was actually a Hunter gatherer ecology class. I did like the limited amount of assignments, but just beware that they're graded harshly

His TA (Yoann Buoro) sucks. His TA will take away points for the dumbest things. I had so many points taken away for things that were not even on the rubric. If you want to be constantly emailing the TA about why you got the grade you did just for him to just say a lot of nothing take this class.This TA is so bad beware.

Gurven is very passionate and tries his best to make lecture interesting. Class is graded by 4 homework assignments (only 1 math), and a midterm and a final. He gave us 5 days to do the open book, open note midterm. There's a lot of readings but you can get away with skimming them. The class isn't a super easy A but it is by no means difficult.