Reviews of professor Andrew Flachs

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr Flachs was great! Attendance is mandatory, but only 10 lectures across the semester are counted for attendance (it is random though, so be careful). Midterm and final are open-book, and you're given several days to do them. The assignments are actually kinda fun, and always relate to what he's talking about that week.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I didn't attend class from October and passed with an A. There are a lot of small assignments due every week (take 30 minutes tops to do) that are graded on completion, not accuracy. If you do those assignments you are in a good place. Exams require you to actually read the textbook though but are over multiple days, so you can get feedback.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Always helpful and available. Great extra credit. Interesting lectures. Fun, easy class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Anth 100 was such a fun class! It offers a broad idea of what anthropology is and a lot of big questions in the field. The readings and few assignments were very manageable. Be nice and collaborate on the class wiki (collective study guide for the midterm and final). If you leave it to the last minute you'll regret it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Flachs was an amazing instructor (ANTH 392, wasn't an option above) he is very understanding if an extension is needed as long as you are communicating. The more you contribute and get involved in the conversations the better! It makes it more fun to go to class when you're participating, he had fun assignments that allowed us to be creative.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Very nice, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable about his subject. Lectures are recorded, assignments aren't bad and there aren't too many. If your grade is to your liking, you don't need to take the final.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Flachs is great! He is very clear on his expectations of you from Day One. It is an easy A, but don't slack off too much on the midterm.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Beware the discussion posts. They're not marked with a due date and are due by 5 pm so If you forget good luck. Even if you do really well on the exams and papers it'll knock you down letter by letter if you mess up on those. The lectures are interesting but the assignments are weird especially the ones about food. Nice and funny guy though.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
There's a lot of writing in this class, but once you do your reading response (you only have to do it once) and your midterm, you can pretty much check out. I was lucky and got a lenient grader as my TA, but beware that a few can be rough.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He is a really great professor who really cares about his students and feels very approachable. His class is very easy and not hard to do well in. Reading the textbook, or the in class readings is not even really necessary to do well. Definitely not a difficult class at all.