Reviews of professor Amanda Butler

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures are long and sometimes feel unorganized. Lots of group discussions over the readings which are abundant each week. Readings seem repetitive and most are difficult to understand. A positive is that she is good with understanding that life happens and deadlines are not strictly enforced. Be ready to read if you are taking this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Wonderful professor and person in general. Dr. Butler genuinely cares about her students and their success. She is incredibly flexible and understanding of situations. She is extremely knowledgeable in everything she does. She is one of the hardest working professors at MSUM. I highly recommend any of her courses to any student

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr Butler is the best professor I have encountered in my education career. I am not an anthropology major but I went out of my way to take as many of her courses that I could. Collapse was one of the most interesting courses and allowed me to reformat my perspective on the world today. I will use her as inspiration in my future classrooms

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Debating Humankind class: The topics for the debates are very biased (topics that most people already have strong beliefs on, due to common sense), so one of the teams is forced to argue a position that no one will ever agree with. She is very set in her beliefs and refuses to realize that the way she teaches is unfair.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took Anth 327 The Aztecs, a writing course, so writing was expected, but she took forever to grade even my first paper. Since it took her till only one month left of the class to get it graded, it was hard to know what to improve on with the other papers. She makes you do reading notes to ensure you are doing the reading like middle schoolers.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Genuinely one of the best professors I've had. She genuinely cares about the success of her students and the department as a whole. She has been an active part in making students' lives better. Her classes are appropriately difficult, but still interesting. If you're looking to take one of her classes for some general credit I do recommend it!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her intro to archaeology class was spectacular! It was one of the most fun classes I have ever taken. She is so engaging, and her lectures are filled with awesome information. She is also a really great person, and is very easy to get along with. If it wasnt for COVID, I would have taken her field school class over the summer. Absolutely 10/10!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
1) Took this class to complete the LASC goal with NO lab and there is lab every single Friday. 2) The labs are extensive. 3)The tests are hard. 4) When the class bombed a quiz, she was "disappointed" in us. Maybe it had something to do with the professor? 5) The coursework is at about 300 level, when this is an intro 100 level class.