Another lecture in term 2 was a development of my very first guest lecture on the Vancouver housing market. This time I focused on a slightly different angle of the issue, the social outcomes of Vancouver’s lack of housing affordabilty, also highlighting the reasons behind it. This time, it was a 50 min lecture for a 300-level course with 100 students registered, and probably around 70 people attending.
As Vancouver housing is the topic of my Master’s research and at that point, I have made quite a bit of progress on it as my research project delving deeper and deeper into the topic, one of the important things I had considered more is simplifying the material and terminology that I use. In terms of a variety of lecturing styles, this time I was only able to include a few open floor questions getting students to share some of their ideas, but the time was limited, so it wasn’t a substantial part of the lecture unlike in the previous 80-minute practicum.