Well if I thought regular academic term classes were a joke, nothing could have prepared me for the farce of the summer term. Since summer terms are half the length of regular terms, the classes meet more often and are longer in length, so as to get the same number of actual classroom contact time as regular term classes. So if you missed one class, you missed a lot, basically the equivalent of missing two classes during regular term. But that did not stop people from skipping class, and from leaving a class early. By the end of the term, each class had shrunk considerably in attendance size. Since no attendance was taken, the numbers became fewer and fewer as time went along.
At the beginning of the summer term, each prof would announce that in order for the classes to be shorter, the regular break would be skipped. So a two hour class would become one hour and 45 minutes long. Well, the other students would leave and take a smoking break anyway. And then the prof would get tired of lecturing and let us out early, after one and a half hours. So each class was shorter than it should have been.
And it was the same old crap, of being lectured at, with no discussions. And it would have been possible in the smaller class sizes. Guess the profs who have to teach during the summer term are real rookies. It must be some kind of new teacher initiation rite. You could tell they did not want to be there. It showed in their lectures. More of being read to from a textbook we already owned. We definitely did not get our money's worth during the summer term.
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Showing posts with label college professors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college professors. Show all posts
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And now I shall turn my attention to the professors themselves. Class attendance is not even recorded and the professors are often late. If they speak intelligible English, you are very lucky. Most are foreigners with thick accents that are hard to understand. Class size is huge and most professors just read from the book. They add nothing of value to the class textbook. No wonder students skip class. It is usually just a boring lecture, and not even a true lecture, but a reading of the boring textbook. There is no discussion of ideas, no questions asked. At the end of the class, students pop their earbuds back in their ears and silently leave the room. It is eerily silent. The tests are a joke. First of all, because the professors are usually not full professors and are graduate assistants, they write one test and use it each term. So the students are able to easily cheat on these exams. If you are unfortunate to have no access to last term's test, don't worry, the test will not be a challenge. It will be multiple choice, a very simple multiple choice, with two of four answers unplausible, so the answer becomes fairly obvious.
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