Reviews of professor Rebecca Gilmour

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Course topics covered too quickly and assignments are tough. Not a great elective with this instructor as it brings down your GPA.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I LOVE GILMOUR. yes, there are 2 essays, but get over it you're in university. the grading on the essays are laid out exactly, you know what's expected and if you follow it you'll do great. super easy course, Gilmour is great, the content is SO interesting

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Gilmour is AMAZING! Due to the pandemic, her class was online at MRU and she was super organized. Her video lectures are very clear and well put together and she is great at getting back to students quickly over email and discussion boards. Dr. Gilmour also gives amazing feedback and is a very nice person! Definitely take her class!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof was terrible and always canceled office hours. Very disorganized and everything posted on online powerpoints was read again in class. Lectures were pointless to attend and no extra information was given.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Gilmour is a great professor! The class is discussion based, so if you've done the readings it is easy to participate. You can tell how much she cares not only about biological anthropology, but about helping the students and making sure we succeed!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I can't believe other students gave Dr. Gilmour less than 5 stars. She is a super sweet and very fair professor who gives great lectures and really tries to make anthro classes engaging for everyone. Hands down one of the best professors at McMaster. I had a lot of fun in ANTHROP 1AA3 and I would love to take more classes with her!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
love her. she's iconic. her kahoots give me life. love hearing her talk about her field work in Fiji. she has taught me to have the mindset of a cultural relativist, and i feel at peace. I also wanna go to Fiji.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amazing prof who is great at clarifying things. She is always willing to help during her office hour and in the lectures. Good choice for an elective!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a really great prof. Will make time for you if you ask for it, will give you an extension on an essay if you really need it. Lectures are not 100% mandatory but they help you understand the content a lot better. Make sure you do the textbook readings if you don't 100% understand the material.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her TA's don't know how to mark. They take off marks for capitalizing the article names in APA style, they don't even know that you can't change the formatting of the title since it's not your book/article. As a prof, she is fairly decent, however, some of her material on religion-based content is fairly under-researched.