Long tests and boring lectures, but fairly easy class.

He assigns a ridiculous amount of reading but honestly never read and only watched 3/4 of his recorded lectures. Easy to get a decent grade with minimal effort if already good at thinking thru anthro questions. Tests were true/false and some multiple choice. Lectures are boring but normally talks about at least 1 cool thing during them

Toobys alright. Hes old and talks slow. The class content is fairly straight forward if youre already familiar with bio Anth. I wouldnt take it if youre not in the major though. He has a lot of required readings and if I wanted to buy all the books I probably couldve gotten the A. Just go to lecture and listen youll be fine.

Incredibly smart man but painfully boring lectures. Slides didn't make sense, they were more for him to remember certain points, bad for visual learners. Problem sets were also long and assigned his entire book the first week. Maybe he's better in person but I wouldn't take this course unless you have to. Seriously, there was so much reading!!!!!!!

The lectures were a bit boring and seemed somewhat redundant. Reading the textbook and talking to TAs will suffice to get a good grade. There was a lot of common sense questions on tests and the readings were fairly easy and short.

Literally the most boring dry lecturer I have ever had. So old he speaks at the volume of a mouse and goes on long unrelated tangents. I understand he basically invented the discipline but really needs to retire. Also tried to make us take our final in person during corona. Luckily you don't need to go to lectures at all to pass the class.

Professor Tooby is, in my opinion, genuinely so brilliant. But his lectures were so unbelievably boring. Material is super interesting, so the words coming out of his mouth were interesting. Problem was that he usually mumbled/trailed off/got sidetracked. Most of the material is self-explanatory. Midterm and final were mostly T/F questions.

This class is painfully boring. The material itself is interesting, but the professor is just so dry and mumbles quite often. I don't remember not dozing off during these nearly 3 hour long lectures. Half the class stopped showing up after realizing attendance wasn't mandatory. If you love yourself, do not take unless you have to.

Took his Intro to Biosocial Anthropology course for a GE and oh boy was it easy. Lectures are a brutally long, but honestly you could skip every single class and be fine. He doesn't take attendance and the only reason I actually showed up was because I used it as a study hall for chem lmao. Just read powerpoints before tests! That's it!

This class was extremely difficult to pay attention in, even though I am an anthro major. He is mumbly, un-engaging, and sometimes went overtime on an already 2 hour and 40 minute lecture. He's a nice guy but that's all I can say for him. The one good thing is I still got an A+ without doing any of the reading, just study lecture notes and homework

Tooby wasnt my cup of tea to say the least. The class was relatively easy, but the lecture was painful.. he had a hard time keeping my attention. Reading is very important in understanding concepts. He posts his lecture slides, but they can be dense.

He is a nice guy, but the most boring lecturer. He had questions on his midterm we hadn't gone over yet in the class, but at least there was almost a full letter grade curve. Basically grading is all tests and then a little for section. Not really a fun class to take but also not the end of the world.

This class is the most interesting class I've taken so far in college. I would definitely recommend it. The professor is such a fair grader and prepares you so well for his tests if you just do the reading (which is a lot but very informational), attend lectures, and do the problem sets. The material is so intriguing that it's fun and easy to do.

Tooby was a real cute professor. He TRIED to make his lectures interesting and sometimes they were, but most of the 3 hrs of lecturing were dry. BioSoc Anth was a really interesting subject but honestly all the material is logical, likely you already know it. You could show up to none of the lectures, and study the slides before an exam and pass.

John Tooby is possiblt the most intelligent and brilliant living organism you could ever meet. His course is sooooo amazingly inspiring. I took ANTH 5 so this course is not hard to understand, otherwise it could be difficult to capture the logic of natural selection. PS: He speak very softly (so remember to adjust the microphone).

Tooby is considered one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, but this doesn't exactly translate to a fantastic lecturer. Tooby is indeed brilliant but it isn't conveyed brilliantly through the class. I found this homework very easy (take Anth 5 first, or concurrently with Anth 151T), the midterm and final were a no brainer also: mostly T/F.

Professor Tooby definitely knows what he's talking about, he's a really great professor. He understands that a 3 hr lecture is dreadful and gives a break in between. He is monotone but if you actually pay attention, the stuff he says is REALLY interesting.

The most interesting class I have taken at UCSB. The material is fascinating; an intro to evolutionary psychology. Explaining the many evolved subconscious mechanisms in the mind. Tooby is incredibly proficient at what he teaches, and offers amazing insight. He is old and monotone and 3hr lectures suck. Material easy to pickup and very intuitive.

Worst class I've ever taken. He may have contributed a lot to Evolutionary Psychology, but he is a horrible professor. Very monotone, boring, and not helpful.

Lectures are too long, and the time frame it takes place in makes it worse. He is monotoned, and at times seems enthusiastic but, not always. If it weren't for my TA i would have probably done poorly. His slides are unorganized. Makes you confused at times because you have to learn his perspective, and not exactly what is being taught.

The lectures were really long, he was unclear, and was very monotone. The criteria was interesting but he would cut in the middle of sentences and almost never finish a sentence to thought

I had professor Tooby for Anth 7 this quarter. I don't have anything against him personally, however there were many things that I dreaded about his lectures. His lecture slides are SO densely packed and completely unorganized I don't know how he expects student to capture all of this information in ten weeks. I would not take this professor again.

I wish his intelligence could be articulated. He is so brilliant. But his lectures are god awful. Three hours of painful mumbling and incoherence. His lecture slides are just as terrible. His midterm was 100 TF questions. Like what is that? His grammar and syntax is sub par. I really wanted to enjoy this class. Such great information.

Anth majors, take this class only after a year or two of taking upper div classes so you can skip the 3-hour lectures and just go to section to turn in the HW which will be a breeze for you, as will the tests. Tooby is a genius but his self-acknowledged inability to speak audibly even with a microphone makes his lectures a waste of time.