English 2783 The Art of Fact

Course Feedback form
October 2013
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1. In this course I try to shift the locus of learning to the students, by creating situations in which people read each other's writing, and wrote in the awareness that others were reading that writing. Is this helping, or changing, your learning?

 

2. I try to create situations in which student discussion promoted learning. Is there significantly more discussion than in most of your other classes, or not? Do you find the discussion promotes your own learning?

 

3. A focus of this course has been to give students opportunities to make informed choices about their own reading, and thus to become more used to making such choices. Do you think this happened, and do you think it helped your learning about literary journalism and its contexts?

 

4. Would you say that the workload in this course is heavier or lighter than average? Does the structure of having regular assignments and class discussions about them help you to stay engaged? 

 

5. I've tried to create a course that helps people take responsibility for their own learning, and for assessing for themselves the quality of their own work. Is this working? Do you think it has helped your learning in general?

 

6. This course tries to help people attend to how forms such as literary journalism come to be seen as "genres" and how they're constructed by people discussing and writing about them -- and how we can find out about that sort of thing in the library and on line. Is this affecting the way you think about such matters? How?

 

7. What do you think it's important for me to know about how this course works (or doesn't) that the questions I've asked above didn't provide for you to answer?