As a part of my "Gothic" course, we have a lecture and seminar each week on Monday; mine just so happen to be consecutive, so that's rather convenient and produces great conversation in seminar, but all the same, it is so odd to be "talked AT"!! Thank goodness Haley is there with me-I don't know what I'd do otherwise.
Each week during lecture a different professor rotates (there are three total), so that adds to the level of unfamiliarity…I like one professor's lecturing style the best (he happens to be different from my seminar professor), but I don't think that I would enjoy him as a seminar professor. Then again, it is odd for me when my seminar professor lectures..Don't get me wrong, the three of them are al completely brilliant people, but I don't know as though the lecture really ADDS anything to the course experience. It mostly just leaves me kind of confused because it is almost always a topic that we don't circle back to in seminar-usually only happens when it is my seminar professor lecturing and she asks us for comments on her lecture!
It's certainly interesting to have the lecture experience, because even when we do have "lecture" at Dickinson, it is usually VERY rare, and only lasts about half a class period, maybe once every-other-week (at least in the classes I've taken so far). I definitely like the seminar environment more because I feel more involved. I might not talk very much, but I am WAY more engaged when there is conversation flowing and questions being pelted across the room, rather than being a witness of a one-sided discussion and simply taking notes.
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