Reviews of professor Brian Karl

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Don't think that the slides will help by themselves because they won't. There are times where his lectures may be easy to understand, but usually, he goes off the roads, and it doesn't really help. Go to your discussion meetings because the GSI's actually go through the reading and make sense of lectures.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The lectures for this class were useless. Did not attend more than 3-4. Just spend your time on the readings and attend section, because that's where most of your learning will come from. This was such a waste of time, the moral of the class was basically just don't be racist.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
professor just yaps, makes you want to fall asleep in class. you need OH by appointment but he's really understanding and a nice guy. but only a handful of people taking the class are anthropology majors the rest of us just need the AC requirement.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Karl is very knowledgeable but lacked in his communication of subject matter in lectures. The way he spoke was confusing and complicated but section helped clarify certain topics. The content was often repetitive and boring so lectures were heavy along with a lot of expected reading. But, Brian was very kind and flexible with students.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
seems like a nice dude; unfortunately has very circumlocutory tendencies during lecture and it is literally just so hard to follow even having done the readings! like others have said most learning happens when doing the readings for yourself or talking them over in discussion. also so much reading (60+ pgs per week)

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures were pretty useless, and the readings were pretty discombobulated. The course was not that hard, just not very enjoyable. My GSI was the only part of the class I liked.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I found the course content interesting. ANTHRO 3AC is not limited to the anthropology of the US but rather givies you a broad survey by touching upon topics like sexuality and ideologies in a nomadic Arab tribe, street culture in Harlem, and ethnography of Wall Street, etc. While Prof. Carl tries to "tease out" main points, he does go over them

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very tough class to digest. There's a lot of assigned readings, but the lectures go through them pretty well. The discussions, provided you have a decent GSI, also give a good summary. While the lectures are dull, I just didn't do the readings at all, as Karl discusses them in such detail. He does bounce from topic to topic a lot.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He gets too much hate. While Professor Karl does have a really soothing voice and sometimes put you to sleep, he also made anthropology really fascinating to me. The historic anthropology was a bit dry, but when he gets to contemporary issues it got REALLY interesting. He's also a very decent person, and honestly seems like a cool guy to talk to.