I am a veteran, and a senior at a prestigious university (one of the best in the US), which shall go unnamed. I was always told throughout high school when I complained of being bored that I would be challenged in college. I'm going to be starting my last semester in the fall, and I am very disappointed. I have been able to maintain a pretty good GPA (3.7) without really any effort at all, and I don't feel that I am learning nearly as much as I would if I was simply reading books like I normally do on my own time. I attribute this mostly to the emphasis on lecture courses, which I consider basically worthless. The only way you can possibly fail is if you straight up neglect your responsibilities and don't complete assignments on time. I have written last-minute essays that I personally consider to be garbage and gotten A and A+ grades on them in upper division courses. I have gone almost my entire college career without doing any of the assigned reading, and gone on to get As in those classes. I know most of the students around me are probably having the same experience. Luckily for me, I was able to do all of this on Uncle Sam's dime, but I would absolutely feel cheated if I had spent my own money.
Seminar courses, however, have always been very intellectually engaging and challenging for me, and I have had to work hard for every A I've gotten in a seminar. It is my opinion that upper division work (at least in Humanities/Social Sciences) should be mostly, if not entirely comprised of seminars. Any educators have thoughts on this?
Submitted August 06, 2020 at 11:48AM by Thriftless_Ambition https://ift.tt/31qNBe7
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