Yancey Orr

2 reviews
Average rating: 3.50

This professor has taught: ANTH260, ANTH267, ANTH454, ANTH654, ANTH722, ANTH760, ANTH789

Grades

During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 2.90 between 298 students*

Grade Distribution+-051015202530354045% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 5.03%
A: 34.9%
A+: 1.34%
B-: 4.03%
B: 25.5%
B+: 1.34%
C-: 1.34%
C: 8.39%
C+: 2.01%
D: 1.68%
D+: 1.01%
F: 6.04%
W: 4.7%
other: 2.68%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.
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Yancey Orr
ANTH267

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/25/2021 This review was submitted while most classes were online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It may not be indicative of a regular semester.		Weird class. It was completely asynchronous this semester and often confusing. Feedback on assignments was very minimal. Final grade consists of midterm, final, and three film analysis papers throughout the semester. If you take the class online, you only need to go through the slide deck and take notes. Don't watch the lectures unless you really need to clear something up. In general, the lectures are a waste of time and he speaks way too slowly. Also, if you're taking the class online, you don't need to read any of the readings. Overall, easy but I wish I took another class.
Yancey Orr
ANTH260

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/08/2020 This review was submitted while most classes were online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It may not be indicative of a regular semester.		Orr is generally a good professor. I took this in Fall 2020 (during COVID) and our class was fully asynchronous except for a 50 min discussion session. The asynchronous part made it hard to feel engaged with the class, because I was watching the lectures whenever, and there were no assignments outside of class. Class grade (for this semester, I think it was different pre COVID) was comprised of discussion participation, 1 essay, and 2 exams (1 midterm, 1 final). Because of this, low level of engagement of the class, but lectures were easy to catch up with. Lectures were generally very interesting and engaging. As it's an anthropology course, lectures are filled with examples from around the world which are fascinating, and he often has some dry witty comment to accompany things he discusses. TAs in this class were odd - they were on completely different pages from each other pretty frequently, giving different instructions on the exams and essay. One seemed to grade a lot harder than the other one. Some minor disorganization - final date not announced until close to the end of the semester, and the essay directions were too vague. However, overall a pretty cool class and I'd definitely take it again.