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Silver[ANTH BC3868] Ethnographic Fieldwork in New York City
Departments: Anthropology
Professors: Lesley Sharp
As earlier reviews have stressed, Professor Sharp is a HARSH grader. I don't think that anyone got an A the semester I took this class. She expects you to be extremely scrupulous about punctuality, citations, formatting, the length of your final presentation: all the details, down to what kind of binder you hand your final project in in. She has extremely high standards on everything from your actual intellectual work to how you format your bibliography. Do not count on her excusing some tardiness and a late assignment because your project is great. She won't.
Despite all that and as much as it pains me to admit it, Professor Sharp is actually a really good professor. You will learn a lot about how fieldwork is done if you take this class and she will push you to make your project something you can really be proud of. This class is great preparation for doing a thesis and I'd highly recommend it to anyone who plans to go on to study anthro on a graduate level. It was one of the most intense and demanding academic experiences I've had. Despite my disappointment over my grade, I'm glad I took this class.
13 page final paper, a project proposal, 4 short writing assignments (under three pages), a 10 minute (no more and no less and she means it) class presentation. This class requires a substantial amount of work outside of class.
Bears an uncanny physical resemblence to Margaret Mead -- long hair, short woman -- but that's about it. Her fieldwork on things like medical anthropology and spirit possesion in Madagascar are surprisingly bland. Unbelievably anal about things like paper formatting and footnoting protocol. Grading policy is tough and inexplicable, at least for papers.
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