*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
Hi Aiyanna,
The questions you pose here about when this kind of lecture should happen are very useful (to me, to the class, to the very idea of what it means to have a coordinated arts program). I think you are right to assume the lecture should have come sooner. Next year we will consider moving things up. Like you said, it is a balance to decide where to make the links explicit–should students get this information right off the bat, or be able to become comfortable in their own classes on their own terms before being told how to think about law and society?