<p>I guess so. But I really got turned off by the fact that he refused to help students at all. If you emailed him, he would ignore you. If you went to go talk to him after class, he would just say “go ask a TA” and then ignore you, regardless of the fact that the TA already couldn’t answer the question. It was absolutely terrible.</p>
<p>I also had a bad TA, but that has little to do with Gottheil himself, although I don’t doubt that he had a role in deciding that the first two weeks of discussion should be spent covering what the slope and y-intercept of a line was. I mean, honestly, I don’t think people should be in college if they don’t know what those two things are.</p>
<p>It was really just a bad experience, made even worse because of its contrast with the fact that almost all of my engineering professors were awesome and were genuinely willing to help you if you needed it. Even the TA’s were competent and usually helpful. I can only think of one bad TA I had within the engineering departments.</p>
<p>When I took it (about 3 years ago) everyone I knew disliked Gottheil and tried to get into Petry’s class.</p>
<p>Also, to Treetopleaf, one ECON course is required for engineering, so regardless of if Balthezar’s son took Anthro first, he would eventually need ECON.</p>