Reviews for Stephen Brighton
Average Rating:| Reactionist Course: ANTH240 Grade Expected: B- December 6, 2011, 1:10 pm | Boring lecture and even much boring discussion. If you want to get easy CORE credit, you should wait for Prof. Palus to teach this class. He is a boring lecturer too, but he is surprisingly generous and easier. |
| collegestudent Course: ANTH240 Grade Expected: A+ May 24, 2011, 3:28 pm | I loved Professor Brighton he was a really nice guy and if you had any questions he would give you great answers. It was seriously an Easy A I got a 100 and a 96 on the two midterm exams. You have three tests including the final two short lab papers and like 5 quizzes His slides do kind of suck though they don't really have much content they have a lot of photos but if you write down what he talks about you should be fine. If you bought the book that helped too. |
| jamgord Course: ANTH240 Grade Expected: May 4, 2010, 4:43 pm | Stephen Brighton is a really nice, approachable guy. He definitely knows the material he is covering, which is good if you have any specific questions that go beyond the info from lectures. The weekly quizzes in discussion are pretty easy, and the tests for our semester were in essay form. For the essays, you need to memorize specific people or examples so you won't get points taken off for being too vague. I love all of his little jokes and short side-stories that relate to the topic in class. He does go through his powerpoint fairly quickly, (but he is thorough,) and that means you usually get out of class a few minutes early! It's not the most exciting class, but the middle section on hominid evolution is the most interesting. |
| Anonymous Course: ANTH240 Grade Expected: A+ October 30, 2009, 9:32 am | Very boring, monotone lectures. TAs are competent at best; the discussion consist mainly of milling around in the so called lab washing artifacts- that is cleaning mud from things like beer bottles and petrified feces-multiple times. Just a waste of time basically. The lectures are not posted online, and there is absoltely no point in buying in the book if you write down what he says in lecture-which brings me to his lecture style. He has a powerpoint with minimal words and a bunch of pictures, and he goes on and on about things that are sometimes not relevant, and certainly not in the book. He goes very fast, so I would suggest to bring a recorder. His exams are all objective, and non-cumulative-could be a plus based on how you look at it. In other words, the final is based solely on material covered since the last exam. The exams are extremely easy, and should require only a glance over the notes, but the class made me feel like we were more focused on memorizing facts rather than actually learning things. Avoid-or at least consider M. Palus. |