Professor: John Whittaker
Department: Anthropology
College: Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: ANT290
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The readings were mostly interesting if you read them, which you didn't really need to half the time. The lectures and class in general were simply the best. If you want some stories to tell friends back home and make them jealous, Whittaker is the man to do it. Every class with him has been informative +adventurous: spear-throwing, gathering, etc)
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: ANT104
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Really boring for Intro. Lectured only and held discussions maybe five times. Tested easy and assigned unnecessary reading. Cool guy, though.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: ANT262
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He loves his topic and will make you love it too. Learn to throw atlatls. Eat acorns. Lecture-based class. Fair tests. Hilarious professor. (He has some type of throat-clearing tic which can be slightly distracting.)
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: ANTHRO290
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
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Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: ANT290
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Fun class! Whittaker is awesome and will teach you all sorts of cool things like how to throw spears and fire/make pottery in addition to the class stuff. Long final paper and lots of reading, but worth it!
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: 2000
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Sally and I (EM) love JW. We went to Arizona with him and he let us throw rocks at his butt. Class was always fun and we learned so much. Now we're both archaeology grad students. Yeah John!
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: ANT295
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Wonderful man, absolutely hilarious. Get to know him outside of class, you will not regret it. Very interested and knowledgable about anthro with lots of great antecdotes. Very enjoyable prof.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: ANT290
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
really loves what he teaches. fairly easy grader. gives a ton of reading that i guarantee no one in the class read, which turned discussions into lectures. I liked the labs, he's very helpfull in identifying artifacts.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: ANT280
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
john is an amazing man who really loves archaeology and prehistory and teaching. if you can tap into that passion, you'll learn a lot from him.
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: TUT
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I don't know how he is as an Anthro professor, but as a Tutorial professor, he is not good. Contrary to his own beliefs, he is not a good writer, and does not know how to teach a class that is supposed to strengthen your reading and writing skills.
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: ANT290
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Fun stuff, very dorky, but useful and engaging.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: ANT101
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
John is a great professor. He speaks very clearly about both social and physical anthropology and he is fair as an exam given and paper grader
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: ANT290
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
John's a great teacher. If you can get past occasionally over-the-top denunciations of what he refers to as crack-pottery , you'll learn a lot from him.
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