Is this an easy A?
HardWork
38/100Students can earn A grades, but the , and adapting to strict grading.
Online reviews make the A feel especially costly, while but more teaching support.
Cabrillo College · Anthropology
ANTH1L · ANTHRO1 · ANTHR1 · 1H · ANTHR2 · 22 lifetime ratings
The decision
Key questions
Is this an easy A?
Students can earn A grades, but the path usually requires heavy reading, careful detail work, and adapting to strict grading.
Online reviews make the A feel especially costly, while in-person reviews still describe tough grading but more teaching support.
Is the course easy?
The material is made difficult by dense reading, science-heavy topics, labs, papers, and demanding expectations for an intro or one-unit class.
Online comments describe the course as more tedious and self-taught, while in-person comments describe challenging but sometimes engaging lectures.
Is attendance flexible?
Attendance rules are not consistently documented, but participation, punctuality, and staying current are clearly important.
Online evidence focuses on weekly work and discussions, while in-person evidence mentions participation, professionalism, and not coming late.
Is this professor recommended?
Most negative reviews warn against taking her because the workload and grading feel excessive, despite several strong in-person teaching reviews.
Online recommendations are mostly poor, while in-person recommendations are sharply mixed.
Course guide
Grading
Strict
24/100
Students repeatedly call her grading tough, picky, harsh, erratic, and focused on small details.
Format shift
Strict grading appears in both formats, with online reviews describing it more intensely.
Workload
Overwhelming
18/100
Reviews repeatedly mention lots of reading, papers, labs, quizzes, discussions, and homework for a course that many expected to be lighter.
Format shift
Online workload is described as especially excessive, while in-person workload is still often heavy.
Teaching experience
Average
43/100
Teaching quality is highly polarized, with strong in-person praise but many online students describing dry content, poor structure, and self-teaching.
Format shift
In-person teaching receives several excellent reviews, while online teaching is often criticized as ineffective.
Assessment method
Balanced
58/100
Assessments include quizzes, discussions, labs, papers, homework, exams, and at least one group final project.
Format shift
Online reviews mention quizzes, discussion posts, labs, and exams, while in-person reviews mention exams, papers, homework, and a group final.
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Course format
Classroom format
High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner
In-person reviews are split between excellent, engaging teaching and serious complaints about workload, papers, reading, and strict grading.
Main concern
Even positive in-person reviewers say she expects a lot and grades tough.
What students said
“She assigns too many papers. She is a very strict grader.”
“Her lectures are eloquent and well-paced, and her sense of humor is wonderful.”
“Graded tough and covers a lot of material.”
Remote format
High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro
Online reviews are mostly negative, citing excessive reading, busy work, picky grading, and weak online teaching structure.
Main concern
Students often feel they are teaching themselves while doing too much work for the course level.
What students said
“Tons of reading, no lectures. Youre basically teaching yourself.”
“very hard, like she punishing you for taking it online.”
“This class is very hard, way too much reading and lectures.”
Exam style
Reviews mention quizzes, exams, and a group final project, but they do not clearly prove open-book rules, webcam use, Lockdown Browser, or strict proctoring.
Assessment risk
Standard
43/100
Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.
In-person reviews mention three exams and a group final project, but they do not clearly prove closed-book rules or strict proctoring.
“There was only 3 exams and she gives you the material you need to be prepared.”
“The final is a group project :(”
Online reviews mention weekly quizzes and exams based on quizzes, but they do not clearly prove proctoring, webcam rules, Lockdown Browser, or open-book rules.
“1 quiz per week based on readings, 3 discussion posts per week, exams based on quizzes.”
“There are three exams, which are not easy.”
Student evidence
Top student voice
“Do NOT take her class unless you have hours of free time every week for only this class.”
“Horrendous work load.”
“She's a tough grader and is very picky.”
“Her lectures are eloquent and well-paced, and her sense of humor is wonderful.”
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Data context
Analysis sample
22
Recent reviews read by the AI
22
Lifetime ratings
90/100
Evidence confidence
The analysis is supported by 22 detailed reviews split across online and in-person formats, with consistent evidence on workload, reading, and grading strictness.
Inside 22 stored ratings
Reported outcomes
13 reported outcomes
A 6 · A- 1
B+ 2 · B 2 · B- 1
C- 1
No reported values
No reported values
No reported values