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Sissel Schroeder

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Raw average: 4.11/5 from 36 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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What students say

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ANTH120 · course not matched
Quality 3/5Difficulty 2/5
Prof. Schroeder is SO SO nice and personable, she always says hi to me when I see her in the hall. Super open to discussion and answering questions people have. I took this class as part of the FIG, we discussed LONG readings which were not explained as well as they could be. Lots of research for papers too.
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ANTH120 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
Professor Schroeder is kind and attentive to students' needs. She's willing to grant extensions on the papers assigned. Our class also had some impromptu field trips, which was a nice experience. However, she assigns many journal articles as readings, which can be difficult for freshmen.
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ANTHR102 · course not matched
Quality 3/5Difficulty 3/5
Hard to distinguish in lecture on what is relevant for what you will be tested on and what is just material she is passionate on. Hard to miss her lectures as they are mostly all pictures.
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ANTH120 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
Professor Schroeder is great. She cares for her students and genuinely respects them and their time. Class is pretty essay and test heavy, with almost no other assignments, however (at least for this specific class), they are graded pretty lightly.
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ANTHR354 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
Professor Schroeder is super cool and awesome. Sure she's an authority and very experienced, but have you considered the most important thing about her and her classes? Her outfits.
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Classes with Sissel Schroeder

ANTHRO 682

Senior Honors Thesis

3 credits

Senior Honors Thesis: Mentored individual research and study for students completing a thesis in an Honors program.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades).

Karen StrierSarah Clayton+11 more

No recorded grade history

ENVIRST 922

Historical and Cultural Methods in Environmental Research

3 credits

Historical and Cultural Methods in Environmental Research introduces interdisciplinary methods for studying past environmental change and its human cultural contexts.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).

Sissel Schroeder

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Recorded teaching history

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2027ANTHRO 682Senior Honors Thesis
Spring 2027ANTHRO 691Senior Thesis
Spring 2027ANTHRO 692Senior Thesis
Spring 2027ANTHRO 698Directed Study
Spring 2027ANTHRO 699Directed Study
Spring 2027ANTHRO 990Research and Thesis
Spring 2027ANTHRO 999Reading and Research
Spring 2027ENVIRST 922Historical and Cultural Methods in Environmental Research
Fall 2026ANTHRO 102World Archaeology
Fall 2026ANTHRO 212Principles of Archaeology
Fall 2026ANTHRO 681Senior Honors Thesis
Fall 2026ANTHRO 682Senior Honors Thesis
Fall 2026ANTHRO 691Senior Thesis
Fall 2026ANTHRO 692Senior Thesis
Fall 2026ANTHRO 698Directed Study
Fall 2026ANTHRO 699Directed Study
Fall 2026ANTHRO 990Research and Thesis
Fall 2026ANTHRO 999Reading and Research

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