He is not an Anthropology PROF but rather a geography prof from Ethiopia. This man can't teach or chooses not to. He gives only vague instrusctions and finds his meterial on webpages designed for middle school. 90% of class is spent watching videos and the rest discussing nothing.Dont waste your $$$

This teacher was HORRIBLE. Such a ****, I wanted to drop his class this first week, and he told me NO. I had to break down crying in front of his office before the **** signed my form.

Worse teacher I have ever had. Tons of grading errors only read of text book's power point. expected a ton of reading and test questions didnt even make sense and a lot of the time. For the final test, I studied 5 questions wrong because he had given me the wrong answer.

He is a rude and unjust teacher. He discriminates against disabled and other classes. He will defame your character any chance he gets. He is just mean and hateful. If you are disabled don't take this class, or just dan't take this class. Same for his Hum105.

He made me angry. One day, he yelled at me in his class. I was so embarrased. I couldn't understand his logics, and lectures. I don't like when says the word "world," and "interesting," that is all I've heard for the entire quarter. What a waste of time taking this class. I shouldn't fail this class but, he is difinitely insane ridiculous teacher.

This is the worse class I have ever had. He did not teach anything. We watched videos everyday. He should look into another career.

I took many other classes from good and bad teachers one thing I can say is that he doesn't have interest to help students His lectures are very stagnant not so much inspiration or motivation If you are looking foward to really learn something don't waste your money on his class

Don't take his online class. He gives very lengthy reading assignments, about 100 pages every week, and unclear to what he is looking for in answers to the reading.

A lot of essay and reading assignemnts. hard to know what he is looking for in reading assignments.

If you really like Geography, please look for other teacher. His teaching method is not interesting. His assignment questions are not clear and he likes to deduct points as possible as he can.

Horrible online class. Do not take him, don't waste your money and time. I did not like his attitude and it seems like he doesn't really care.. Lots of essays, midterm and a final.

Great subject, terrible instructor. Unclear about expectations for assignments, will deduct points without explanation, impossible to please, doesn't reply to email, loses assignments. Awful experience. Killed all interest I had in the subject by the second week. Great readings presented badly. Skip him, anyone else would be better. Seriously.

He starts out really nice but he is strict and mean. He doesnt give clear assignments and he doesnt care about your concerns. Dont ever take this teacher you have meen warned!

Marked down on EVERY assignment for not citing sources even though I explained various times that I only had the book or my own experience to draw upon. I am twice the age of the average student and I have traveled to most of the countries we studied, so I didn't need to look any of it up because I knew the material. You deserve better instruction

This guy is completely useless. His grading makes zero sense and you lose multiple points on a 10 pt assignment because your format wasn't totally MLA for short answer/essay questions. The class in itself so beyond dry and nothing but terrible movies and textbook readings. Save yourself from this class or find another teacher if you can.

Plenty of major assignments are given that are not on the syllabus so pay attention! The syllabus was unusually tentative for my class and if you ever had a question he would refer you to the syllabus; a confusing cycle indeed. Gives a lot of onlineCanvas assignments in nononline courses, but still does not seem familiar with Canvas or technology.

unclear, unorganized, gives exams on weekends, and doesn't help when I ask for it.

Lovely and interesting person, probably should not be an instructor. Elementary material, less clarity than was imaginable to me, excruciating lectures directly from textbook's companion deck but peppered with inaccurate remarks. Attendance and participation graded. My worst ever class to date. Outrageous and my first B grade in college

Vague is an understatement. Would never recommend.

Awful.

Awful. Strongly believe he might have discriminated when he first moved to U.S. Only talks about his country and teaches nothing. He should be kicked out from the school he does not deserve to be a instructor.

I agree with a poster below. Vague really is an understatement. Beware of online classes with this instructor. Email replies are usually prompt but the instructor does not seem to actually read your entire question and responses often show a lack of reading comprehension. Expect 2-3 emails to get a half-assed answer. Gave up on questions many times

2 weeks in and by far the absolute worst professor I have ever encountered. I've had to email him at least 5 times because none of the instructions make any sense. His responses are patronizing as if he thinks everyone should know what he wants in assignments. This professor is an absolute joke.

He's extremely unhelpful and his standards are very unclear. I get graded down on assignments for things that I was never told to do. He does not communicate his expectations at all. He also doesn't respond to emails. I can't believe people like this get teaching positions.

I am only a few weeks into my quarter with him and ALREADY I am out of my mind and frustrated. He has the HIGHEST expectations of a 100 level class I have seen. He does not make his standards clear and expects assignments turned in DAYS before the due date; he is also one of the MOST patronizing teachers I have ever had. 0/infinity do not reccomend

No word can explain how terrible I feel with him. I honestly don't know how he got his job, he's terrible. Probably the worst prof I've ever had. No clear instructions, no clear expectations, sucks at responding emails. What a waste of my time taking this class.

This is the hardest class I have ever taken, with the simplest material. The assignments are unnecessarily strenuous but more importantly very vague. Discussions have to be completed long before they're due or else you will receive a late penalty, and the lecture slides are useless. Taking this class is the biggest regret of my college career.

Taare is an absolute nightmare! Completely unclear and inconsistent with expectations and grading. Geography is such an interesting subject but he makes it so stressful and boring! His syllabus was incredibly confusing and made no sense. You basically have to guess when assignments are due because the syllabus won't help you. Avoid at all costs!!!

Professor Giday is an interesting person. He's just not a very interesting teacher. He is practically unclear about every assignment. His grading style is inconsistent. He threatens to take points off participation because students want to add on to the subject without raising their hands even though he emphasizes for everyone to speak their minds.

Very bad at communicating assignments which made it hard to pass the class. He also clearly didn't understand how to use canvas dispite it being part of the class, and instead of teaching we just watched video programs. Don't take this guys class if you can help it.

We spent most of the class watching videos that (at the time of taking the class) were already 9 years old and thus out of date. That is, when he could get the videos to work. He wouldn't allow any of us to meaningfully contribute to class discussions as he'd always interrupt and never allow us to respond to each other. what a waste of time.

I never write reviews on here, and I just recently graduated - I am here just to write a review about this professor. He should not be anywhere near a classroom. I went to UW (much harder than Central) and his GEO100 summer class was by far the most unnecessarily difficult class I've ever taken. It's clear he doesn't care about students' education

His course is needlessly difficult coupled with the 'lectures' being nothing more than a powerpoint of the pictures in the textbook and a few passages from the book he clearly doesn't know how to teach also no grading rubrics posted you get a general copy-paste for each assignment

never felt like i needed to write a review but this professor makes it to my top 5 worst teachers. An absolute nightmare. Bad with canvas, unclear expectations, unclear questions on homework, boring same structured hw every week with weird unrelated topics with no significance, and worst of all, unforgiving and petty attitude towards mistakes.

Giday is a nightmare. Get ready to spend hours upon hours doing assignments for him to spit in your face. The reason he doesn't have office hours is that there would be 100 people in line ready to beat his ass.

Be prepared to be mislead in every aspect of the class, from grading consistency, to what exactly is required for each assignment. He holds no office hours, so don't bother emailing him and if its an online course, well, good luck. He offers very vague to nonexistent feedback on graded work. I may as well ha lit my tuition on fire. 0/10. BEWARE.

No clear grading criteria. He isn't specific with what he wants on each assignment. Some of the assignments have nothing to do with what he is requiring us to read each week. Super hard grader, too. I would definitely suggest finding another professor for a geography class.

I took this online course & I shouldve listened to them. Although I passed the course its the only reason I dont have a 4.0 . I tried & did the extra credit but it he deducted points because even though I provided facts that supported my topics in my essays it wasnt the information he was looking for or what pleased him & no late work allowed.

He is the worst teacher I ever took. I already know about everything in Geo100 but I still have to take it for credit, the information in the textbook is worse than you searching on the internet. Really tough grader, just dont take his class if you want a maximum grade.

this has got to be one of the absolute worse classes that I have ever taken, this professor is an absolute nightmare to deal with. I would advise anyone who would listen to stay as far away from this guys classes as possible. he should not be teaching anyone let alone be a professor at a collage.