Mark Leone

School: University of Maryland
Department: Anthropology
Location: College Park, MD
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Pros: Very smart teacher, awesome conversations.
Cons: Boring lectures, for the most part
He is a very intellectual man, so that makes the material a little more interesting.
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Pros: There is basically no work for the whole semester. Lectures are typically pretty interesting. The TAs are very helpful, so if you don't understand something or want to know what you need to know for the exam, email them or go to one of their study sessions.
Cons: If you do not read the book before the exams, you will not pass. It is heavy reading.
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Pros: Amazing professor
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Pros: Knowledgeable, dry sense of humor
I love this class and Professor Leone. He has a very dry sense of humor, but it's great.
The workload is very straight forward: a set of readings due before each midterm. Each midterm contains 4-5 essays and we write 3.
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Pros: self paced readings due at exam dates, no other homework
Cons: entire grade based off of 3 exams
not a good course to take if you're not a good test taker
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Pros: Informative brilliant professor with lots of experience
Cons: Teaches using questions
Side stories can be confusing
Test are all Essay and little time
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Pros: He's great
Cons: N/A
I love my professor
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Pros: Great teacher
Cons: broad concepts
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Pros: He knows his facts and tries to make it interesting for everyone. Videotapes his lectures and puts them online, the films watched every friday are also online, and his GTA puts his own notes online.
Cons: the class is all essays and very detail oriented, so know your facts. And he can get a bit boring sometimes, though I'm a science major, so humanities to me are pretty boring anyway.
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Pros: Intellectually stimulating material
Cons: Essay tests (they are graded harshly)
Have to read two books for final, not fun
interesting class but I feel Leone and his TAs could grade a bit more fair.
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Pros: Easy to talk to
Cons: Terribly boring
Bring Caffeine
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Pros: Knows about everything he talks about.
Cons: Dry at times
All exams are essay exams. Definitely need to pay attention in lecture to do well

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