Course Reflection

Overall the course was educational. I felt throughout the class that it was repetitive of what I had already learned my freshman year, especially because it related very closely to what I learned in my W course. I feel that if I had taken this class my freshman year that I would have found it more interesting and challenging.

Things that I liked about the class were the class discussions and the two different styles of writing that we got to use. The reading selection was also varied and I enjoyed what we talked about. I also felt that the course load was relatively easy and not overwhelming at all, everything was spaced out nicely.

One of the things that I did not like was the blog. I felt that there was not enough structure to it to actually have an effective outside of class communication with others. The blog would work better if maybe a few select people would be randomly assigned to write about the piece currently being discussed and then everyone else would have to write a response to it. We do something similar to this in my Communications class where for each chapter we do about four people are assigned to write reaction papers and come up with two or three discussion questions for class. Then class is centered around those questions after the papers are summarized for the class. I feel that if you did something like this for the blog it would work better. This way each person would only have to write one or two blogs for an actual piece but then they would be expected to write a decent length response when they were not assigned to actuall write about the piece.