Worst class I've taken in my 4 years at UW. Awfully pedantic professor, asked to be addressed as doctor because "he's earned it". Skipped teaching a chapter in the book because he "doesn't enjoy teaching that chapter". Easy class but painful to sit through.

Lectures are so shallow and boring. And he seems to just plainly follow the textbook, which means for some interesting topics he doesn't even bother to dig further. Slides are not helpful at all: he won't type the key points but he'll say it and you need to take notes quickly! Pure western view of all cultures. Don't take it for ethnic study!

He lives in his own world and anyone opposed to it is wrong. He doesn't care at all about his students. He thinks he's better than everyone because he's a Doctor and he went Guadalupe. Don't take his class terrible

This class is ridiculous. I did all of the readings and went to every lecture but the questions he actually asks on the online exams make those readings completely useless. One of the rudest professors I've ever had. Say anything that doesn't match his opinion directly, get ready to be publicly shamed in front of a 400+ lecture.

This professor is ridiculous. You have to go to the lecture because you need to PAY for Tophat and answer the questions CORRECTLY to get the participation points. The grading on discussion and group project is all depend on TA. My TA destroyed my grade and didn't give me any explanation. So does the professor. He doesn't care about the students.

he is not even trying to put effort in his class. Lectures are about the textbook. The way he keep the students in the classroom is grading the correctness of your answers on Tophat. You can find all the questions in the exam online. He changed the grading proportion several times and TA graded harshly on projects to make the class look harder.

This class is a VERY easy A if you attend and pay even half attention. Take notes on vocab so you have it accessible for quizzes that you take on your own with open notes. Professor is very rude and will call people out in class, very opinionated and almost disrespectful, but this doesn't impact your grade because its such a large class.

I personally was not a fan of Professor Camal. He was very arrogant and opinionated. He was very sarcastic, extremely rude and absolutely savage when walking through the aisles and finding that someone had a different page open. His class wasn't very interesting but the online quizzes were super easy. Class was only mandatory for tophat questions.

Jerome is by far one of the worst professors at UW-Madison. As one of the most opinionated and arrogant people I have ever met, Jerome will lecture to project his own views on topics related or unrelated to the course. Attending lectures added no value and are a complete waste of time. Furthermore, his exam q's were subjective to his view of life.

Professor Camal is easily the worst professor I have ever had here at UW Madison. He teaches mostly on his own opinions instead of facts and is very rude to those who don't agree with him. Class assignments were boring and most of the time just seemed like busy work. If possible, avoid Professor Camal's class.

Poor teacher, urged everyone to go to class to have a conversation that wastes time. Seems like the type of guy to read Rate My Professor reviews and convince himself that he is a good teacher by telling himself that only people who disagree with him write these reviews. Very "woke" (even for someone who agrees with a good amount of his ideas).

Jerome Camal is THE WORST professor I have had here at UW-Madison. He is probably the most arrogant human being on the face of the planet. You are forced to come to lecture with the joy of having a microphone shoved in your face for "participation". Prof. Camal, "We might have different opinions, you'll always be wrong and I'll always be right"

Jerome Camal has been the absolute WORST professor I have ever had. Not only is he a hypocrite, his viewpoints have lacking support, and he humiliates himself by sharing his opinions in forceful lectures. Jerome, if you are reading this- please do UW a favor and go play your music with your island folks far away from our campus. You are unwanted.

If you love feeling like you're in third grade again he's your guy. He won't start lectures until we all respond "good morning," he makes us do small group work in a 700 person class, makes us answer questions into a mic in lecture, starts every lecture with a half hour review of the three slides he went over last time, just all in all a bad time

I would like to agree with the many previous comments on Jerome's ineffective approach to teaching at UW. He is most likely the most arrogant and opinionated person I have ever had lead a classroom, which is not only distracting but wastes time. Jerome is the worst professor at UW when it comes to making lecture a value-added experience. Avoid him.

I took this thinking it would be an easy ethnic studies requirement @ UW. The semester started out ok and Jerome seemed just socially awkward. However, as the semester has progressed it is evident he runs the lecture as a forum to inject his opinions into students and treat those who may disagree with no respect. Jerome is an effective instructor.

Jerome's lectures don't cover useful information. He isn't able to efficiently get through the 50 minute class because he wants our 300-person lecture to discuss everything he talks about. Be prepared to have a microphone shoved in your face and then have your answer be ridiculed. The class seems interesting, but he kind of ruined it for me.

He wonders why people do not show up to his lectures, it is because they are a waste of time. He adds little to no value in his style of opinionated teaching and shoving microphones into peoples faces. Very rude too, he cannot seem to respect alternative views. Oh, and his exams are on his useless lectures not the book so you have to show up.

I was hesitant to add my voice on this site, but was reassured after reading the previous comments that I am not alone in determining Jerome Camal is with almost all certainty the absolute worst professor on this campus. I just dread the idea of his lectures, he is rude and shoves the microphone in our faces while wasting time on nonsense. bad prof

His lectures consist of bland powerpoints and him trying to force participation (even though it's a 300 person lecture). His online quizzes are tedious, and he has a knack for wording the questions in confusing ways. Try to find another class to fulfill your ethnic studies. Avoid at literally all costs; he IS as bad as all these reviews say.

It seems strange that he cannot get through a lecture without reading word for word from his notes.. just shows Jerome is not a polished public speaker. The notes he reads word for word provide little to no value, they're just his opinions. Whenever he wants to engage the class he shoves the microphone in students faces.. which again is not helpful

Terrible prof. Not only is he opinionated and rude, he tries to get the entire 300 person lecture to discuss with each other. And if you don't feel like ever participating, sit in the middle of the lecture room or he WILL shove a microphone in your face. His powerpoints are ineffective and so is him reading from his notes about subjective topics.

I would not recommend taking a class with Jerome. He makes students uncomfortable by putting a microphone in their faces during lecture. He covers about 3 things during lectures and his tests are too difficult based on the subject matter.

DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS. Thought this class was going to be an easy A, but it turned out to be hard. Do bad on one assignment and you won't get an A in the class. I highly recommend not taking this class.

Lectures are meaningless and a pure waste of time. You will only see him walking around and making students answer questions. Illy organized. Exams are the worst: he literally said that they are not about your learning but how fast you search contents. 60 mins to do 40 questions about trivial details. Strongly suggest him to take education classes

I would avoid this professor at all costs. He bullied students in class, he made remarks about a student's inability to read in a 400 person lecture. He is unwilling to hear any opinion that do not align with his views. Most students in the class stopped going to lecture. Exam questions were based on his opinions. Very unprofessional and childish.

This dude is WACK. He is an awful professor. He will force people into answering questions the way he wants through his heavily opinionated ways. Even if you go to lecture and read the book, his midterm and final questions are so meticulous that it won't do you much good. Stay away from this man if you want an easy A for an intro anthro class.

Jerome is both childish and unprofessional. I truly hope the university reconsiders their choice in allowing an ineffective instructor to lead a course of nearly 400 students. I cannot emphasize enough how rude, ignorant, and opinionated he is. The worst, he would publicly embarrass students in a manner which came across as a bully. Exams are impos

A lot of busy work, grading depends on TA

His lectures were extremely uncomfortable. He would call out students in the middle of class, insult the entirety of the Midwest (Including the University for not being elite), and was overall very unprofessional. The class itself is easy, but you do have to show up to lecture to do well on the exams. If you can, avoid him at all costs.

Easiest Ethnic studies A on planet earth. Quite a rude professor though. He also said that they are changing the entire class this summer so be prepared for it to be harder. If you like anthropology then you might like lecture. I didn't like anthropology so I just sat on my phone. Also, sit in the middle so you don't get called on.

This was the first class I took at UW. On the first day, TopHat was not working & I asked if I could be marked present anyways, to which he said no and then yelled at me. Disliked him since. He is also quite rude and insults students from time to time. However, the class is ridiculously easy. Check google for half of the exam questions.

Lectures were extremely boring, Camal reads off a pre-written script in a monotone voice the entire time. He sometimes walks around the room and forces participation so definately sit in the middle. Also comes off as very condescending and controlling towards his students. The only upside is that you can get an A without showing up to lecture.

Professor Camal literally reads off a script for his lectures, and most of his tests are quite easy, online, and a lot of questions are able to be found through Quizlet. As such, I did not attend lectures for the last two exams worth of content. Discussions are mandatory, but useless. Easy A if you need an ethnic study, but would not take again.

Anthro 104 in notoriously one of the easiest classes on campus, I stopped attending lecture before thanksgiving break, as well as reading the book as I could not handle his white savior campaign. Easiest A on campus, besides for maybe clap for credit.

Anthro 104 is a class with an ego; Camal is a big part of that. He takes this class incredibly seriously despite the fact that there is little repercussion to simply not going. Compared to professors of similar 100 level Anthro classes, he does not compete. I felt uninterested and unmotivated throughout the course. Lecture cleared out after 2 weeks