*Warning* This is for sure a “ranty”, unfocused posting. (We all get at least one, don’t we?)
This week has certainly been unlike the last week we posted a blog. I was definitely not as moved by any events this week as much (or even close to) as I was with the TRC and events leading up to it. However this week, our Law and Society Co-ordinated Arts Program has become clearer as a co-ordination. This week, my three professors from Law and Society came together to show the correlations between their disciplines. They explained how their course introduces and takes a look at Law and Society.
I wish this had happened earlier in year. Although it was excellent to hear our professors make connections between what they have been teaching us and Law and Society as a whole – It would have been helpful to know earlier. Knowing earlier would have allowed all of us students to be focusing on a main theme while completing our assignments.
I don’t want to write about regrets that I have about not hearing this presentation earlier in the semester. Perhaps I can write about how I can start to actively use this information as a tool to improve my writing and future assignments. By keeping in mind the theme that my professors are basing our lectures and assignments around (Law and Society), I can enrich my overall learning experience this year. I feel that having a focus point behind my assigned tasks will be very effective.
Thinking as I write this post, I’m starting to realize that maybe having this “focus point” presented to me at this time in the course is a good thing. Maybe I would not have found this idea as useful earlier in the semester. Now that I have an idea of what my learning expectations are for my classes, I can add this layer to my interpretations of new information that I am receiving. Now that I am this far into my courses, I can use this tool to my best ability. Whereas earlier in the course I may have ignored that this information can be used as a tool to enhance my learning, interpretation and the overall outcome of the work I am doing.
Next year, should the Law and Society stream Professors have the presentation they did this past week earlier in the year? Or is more useful, and does it make a better and stronger impression on students once they have a general understanding of the classes they are taking? I’ll leave this unstructured, crazy, thought stream with those questions.
Merci