To reiterate what was said on Tuesday:
CONS (to be fixed in hypothetical future run course)
1. Cover evolutionary biology, linguistics and culture at the beginning of class rather than make a sudden switch of topics halfway through the term
2. Begin broad so everyone has the same outline in their head, having a sense of purpose, with specifics explained later so the gaps can be filled while we WANT to know why.
3. First point allow us to come up with research topics, then second point helps with the research.
4. More direction to blog posts. Have a question to answer or bullet points to meet, such as “Informal midterm course eval — what was good, what could have been better, suggests for a [hypothetical] future run of this course, etc.”
5. Come up with questions for our speakers as a class beforehand.
PROS (what works now)
1. Cover biology first, then linguistics, then culture.
2. Guest lectures are awesome.
3. MURC is awesome, especially for Arts students. (I’d much rather be presenting on this kind of material than go up and explain my webcomic, really, even though Sonja said that was okay when we talked to her first year)
4. Class size. I can’t see this working for a larger class, especially given our coordinators are not specialists in all three disciplines.
5. Blog posts. I think these are an asset to the course, especially for the links Greg and others post to potentially help with our research topics and areas of interest. It’s also handy to have a place to share comments, such as on our MURC proposals.