Honestly, I’d kind of like to see a bit more emphasis on absorbing the material; for my part, and I know this is my fault, I do feel like some of it just went in one ear and out the other. I know that short of marked evaluations (that I’m pretty sure everyone would like to avoid), there’s not much way to do this.
On that note, I do actually think the individual presentations have been fantastic, but would like to see more of them and a little more direction to those that happen. The ones we did were a little scattershot in terms of focus. This kind of ties back to the idea of me not really fully retaining the details of information presented in class. If we were required to present a couple times on subjects discussed in class, then it would focus us back onto the topics discussed and probably increase retention. Also, it would enforce the interdisciplinary nature of the course more, since we would have to take it into our own hands.
But the discussions we have are great and the points raised are provocative and interesting. It’s stuff that a linguist or a biologist would not normally be exposed to, which makes them all the more valuable.
Also, just as an aside that we may have talked about, I wonder how an econ major or a Business person would look at this course. I wonder how evolutionary thought would apply to different business models, successful and unsuccessful companies, that sort of thing.
Categories