Reviews of professor Luke Larter

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Luke is a great prof. If you want to an easy option this is not the class. Lots and lots of memorization and the concepts (taxonomy) and what not are not easily memorizable. So, hours should be dedicated to get an A. Also do not buy the textbook!! All exam questions are directly from lecture and slide shows. It's super costly and unnecessary.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Luke is a young professor and it shows, however he still is a relatively good instructor. He is very accessible outside out of class and will help you with whatever you need. His exams are short answer, so if memorization is not your forte you might have hard time. He could improve as a production by providing more examples of the concepts.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Final is 50% of your grade and is cumulative. Also the class is exam heavy and memorization heavy. Luke is a great prof and is someone that is clearly passionate about what he's teaching. Also save yourself some money and do not buy the 140 dollar textbook. Its very unnecessary I used his slideshows and was fine.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The class was all memorization and was very hard. I went to every class and still did not do very well. He requires specific wording for his exams and they are all long answer. He read straight from his slides and just expected you to know it all.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Luke is very approachable and helpful. However, there is a lot of content and it all needs to be memorized. If you have everything on the slides memorized, you will get an A. I wish he told us the textbook was optional because we never used it, waste of $$$.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Did this class over the summer. Not a great experience. This guy just came to class to read word for word off the slides and made us watch documentaries. His exams were difficult.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Mr. Larter is an amazing professor! You can tell he really did his best to teach this class. I am sure that he will continue to get better as a lecturer and teacher. He is hilarious! I would definitely look for more of his classes in the future. Mr. Larter is a gift to the field of anthropology!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Exams are way too specific, he tells you to know the general information but you need to memorize everything. You also need to know the material in order to understand the questions or you wont know what he is asking. I would say to do reletively well in this class, you need to invest at least 3 hours of studying after every lecture.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Terrible class to take. Everyone told me this class was amazing, so it must be the instructor that made the difference. The skulls they brought to the lectures had more ability to teach this course. Way too many videos. It's like the real instructor backed out and they pulled someone at random to take over.