Reviews of professor Kiran Jayaram

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Cult ant. He left for India for a month during a very difficult paper, and left all instruction to his TA's. He grades strict, expects too much with little instruction and vague feedback. I attended class once and he talks, RAMBLES and RANTS a lot, especially about covid. Wouldn't recommend, I tell my friends don't take this course or professor!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Jay is the worst anthropology professor you will get. He constantly goes off topic, is horrible at answering questions you might have and gives the most vague or contradictory instructions in a class. Most instructions he provides on rubrics involve incomplete sentences and ideas that will leave you struggling to comprehend the task.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
seems like he enjoys anthropology a lot, but his class did not feel like an intro level. too many assignments and the ethnographic project was extensive. you dont have to go to class and can do everything online, so thats a plus, but overall he asks for too much :/

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Jayaram inspires his students to think out of the box. Education is more to him than just grading and lecturing. He will challenge you in discussions, but I think that is a great thing, because imo you need to be able to defend your stances. He is caring, charismatic, and very organized.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I didn't hate the class. Attendance not mandatory. Just do the quizzes (3 tries) + papers then you'll be good. The paper's instructions are fleshed out in the syllabus so I just followed them exactly and got a A+. The papers require real life observations so it' was a bit annoying if you're just trying to get ANT credit and not really interested.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Our class was experimental in the fact that we had to professors with different teaching styles. There is a year-long group project and there are two readings each week with a quiz.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I had Prof. Jayaram during Fall 2022. It was an in-person class but attendance was not mandatory (due to Covid safety). The class grade consists of weekly short quizzes (multiple attempts), assignments based on readings/videos, and two longer essays. He was a really nice guy. I did not attend class, did it all online, and received a good grade.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Jayaram was amazing. It was interesting to hear about his anthropological studies done in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He assigns quizzes and little assignments each week. We also had a semester-long project that we had to write two essays on. He's really nice and makes sure that everyone understands the course material.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very extreme late policy. Tons of homework.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
There is a semester long project that requires studying and interacting with a chosen population so if Social interaction is not your thing I would not recommend this class. Prof. Jay is great, very supportive and an excellent conversationalist.