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Take anything you can with Dr. Harveen Mann (English dep). She is AMAZING.

Every professor I have met in the Anthropology department has promoted learning in interesting ways and encouraged me to study topics that interest me. I have also been encouraged to go to an archaeological field school during a summer or the summer after I graduate (2009) and have it count for credit - another way to study in a different place. Sadly to say that linguistic anthropology is underrepresented here and there is no Linguistic major. The anthropology professors are all interesting and good people. My 300-level Anth classes are usually small (20 - 25) people, which makes it easy to discuss topics in the interest of human history. My favorite class this semester is Ice Age America (Anth 341) with Dr. Amick. This class is like nothing I expected and I learned so much about climate change, how modern humans populated the Americas, and how those populations have impacted the landscape. I also am an Economics major (in the College of Arts and Sciences, not the Business School), so commuting to the downtown campus for the upper level Econ classes is kind of a hassle. There is always a fight to get on the shuttle between the campuses, so the express or "L" train is what I use half of the time. I also attempted to be a Statistics major for 3 semesters and that was pretty difficult. The Math and Stats department was pretty uninviting and uninspiring (although I do not have a mathematical frame of mind).

Professors are great! They are all extremely intelligent and dedicated to their jobs. Class participation is common. Students seem to be competitive, but not to a point where it becomes unfriendly.

I feel bad for all those nursing majors...lets hope they all make it to graduation alive

Some great profs here. try to get in the smaller classes--you'll get more out of them. Profs are willing to go the exrta mile once you know them.

It is really easy to double major, pick up minors, or take a variety of classes at Loyola. The curriculum is set up so that core classes (the required classes) not only fulfill the credits required by the university but sometimes can count for different major requirements. It's great when one takes one class that knocks out several credits. The professor are amazing. They give out cell and home numbers and emails. They have office hours and want students to come visit them. One of my professors even made time to meet me when I could not make it to his office hours.

Great class sizes, my largest has been 40 students, professors know my name, studying is great in the IC, students are competitive.

Some of my professors have been very personable and take the time to learn students' names which I find important because usually the class sizes are pretty reasonable. However, some professors don't seem to care whether or not they call us by name at all. I'm happy to hear about the new Communications classes I'll be able to take next semester, but I don't think that it's fair that I have to either double major, or minor because I am taking Journalism. On top of that I can't even do another Communications major/minor. I hope that that changes because it's ridiculous.

The professors here are really passionate and care that you're learning. The amount of studying depends mostly on the student and what classes they're taking. Class sizes are perfect, the largest one i've been in was anthro 101 which had 135, and the average is anywhere from 20-45 students per class. The teachers usually know your name and are more than willing to help you out during office hours or outside of class. Loyola doesn't treat many professors very well, and my favorite anthropology professors (husband and wife team) are leaving because of it, one of whom was the head of the department. So as to the future of my department, I have no clue how well it will fare.

Like all schools, there are good classes and some bad. My favorite classes would have to be my math and philosophy class. In my math class, I was surprised one day to hear my teacher come up to me and tell me how great of a student I am in class and how quiet I am. After that incident, I realized that there are some teachers who do get to know you and like to tell their students to boost their moral. Philosophy class is the same in many aspects. My teacher keeps the students engaged in class discussion and will address you by name when called upon.