Comments on: The same old introductions.

By: uneasy rhetoric

uneasy rhetoric — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:30:00 +0000

I took a Stylistics and Composition course, which was basically a rhetoric and writing course, and it was one of the best courses I took. It provided the foundation I needed to write my senior thesis (which was a lit. thesis).

I took it in French (my “minor”, more or less), but same idea.

Since it’s an upper division course, it could be a lot more interesting.

By: lisa

lisa — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:26:26 +0000

Josh: we’ve totally done that too, and the teacher told us it was more for him than us; we had to do it three classes in a row so he could learn our names.

Cheryl: of course there are more creative things that could be done. Unfortunately, on the first day of class, most students want to go over the syllabus and leave after 20 minutes. Creativity definitely cuts into that timeline.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:42:14 +0000

There are much more creative ideas teachers should use… examples include: “tell your name, what you had for dinner last night and your favorite store from this room within 50 miles”.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:50:18 +0000

Yeah, I too dislike the whole “get to know you” things. I didn’t have to fill out any index cards this semester, but in two classes, we went around the room giving introductions. These consisted of:

“Hi, my name’s [X], I’m an [X] (freshman, sophomore, etc.), and my major is [X].”

This was done in rapid fire sequence – one person says his, the next person continues. In both classes, there are around 30 of us, so by the end, we’re all just sitting there thinking, well, I certainly don’t have any idea who is who now, even if I did beforehand!