Sunday, April 20, 2008
The nebulous directors of the universe in the university system above apparently imposed more stringent regulations on the Classics Department (and certainly most others) with regard to demonstrating the undergraduate "successful completion rate", whatever that means. This translates to the requirement that, among other things, in my senior portfolio I must compose a paragraph for each upper-level Classics culture course about one thing that "intrigued" me. Pissant that I am, I can think of little else to comment, other than:
I came to class most of the time. I took notes and tried not to nod off during lecture, since despite finding the material interesting, I was too tired from working the night before to listen too attentively. I bubbled in mostly correct answers on the exams. I turned in final papers with few to no grammatical or technical mistakes. I received an "A". What intrigues me most about this class, Dear Sir or Madam, is that anyone could possibly fail it. An additional question arises: why should the University have me submit an assessment for a course it has no intention of ever restructuring?
Labels: assessments, school
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 5:01 PM]