Can a teacher change a course outline in between the course?

The old course outline is:

Assignment 1- Write a journal (20%) (one of the grading requirements is: students need to include experience of the past)

Assignment 2- Choose an essay (80%) topic of 1(research), 2(interview) or 3(reflection) to write. If your journal already reflected about the past experience, you can only choose essay 1 or 2.

​

In between the course, after the student has attempted the journal assignment, the teacher suddenly changed to a new course outline:

Assignment 2- Instead of writing an essay, students will do a presentation.

​

I looked at this course outline and I saw some issues.

​

First of all, why is assignment 1 (journal) grading students based on their past experience, contradicts with Assignment 2 Essay 3 (reflection)- that says it is only attemptable if the student has not written anything about experience of the past. Doesn't it means that if students are keen to attempt essay 3, they would have to exclude their past experiences and flunk their Journal first?

​

Secondly, if the students really have decided to sacrifice their journal 20% so they could do essay 3 (due to personal competency and preference), could feel cheated when the assignment 2 is suddenly changed to a presentation and the essays are forego.

​

What's your take on this?

​

​

​

​

​

​

Submitted September 20, 2018 at 11:24AM by ThemeOfLaura https://ift.tt/2xDlYQl