12-05-2008, 05:27 PM
The worst ever are two of the classes Iâm taking now- Childrenâs Lit and American Cinema through TESC.
CL:
I have personally read over 30 books for the class (and most of them werenât the typical 20 page childrenâs book, either). You have to write 11 papers for the class, anywhere from 4-8 pages each. I ended up writing over 60 pages for those papers and was so disgusted I turned the assignments all in early just to get them over with. The mentor lost half of one of my assignments. I still havenât had a grade posted in the grade book 3 weeks after I took the midterm.
Iâve estimated that Iâve read over 1000 pages (seriously) and wrote over 60 pages in the last 10 weeks. All of this is for a 200 level class.
Cinema:
There is NO mentor communication. He went MIA in the class and I never got a single assignment graded until week 9 out of a 12 week class. He never has posted ONE thing to the class, no one knows where he went or anything, grades just showed up. Apparently neither did any of the other students. We all (the students) were so worried that something had happened to him that I offered to call the school to see if he was ok. He doesnât even give you a grade on any of the 6 discussions in the class in your grade book because he said, âyouâll see what I gave you when I calculate your final gradeâ. Itâs the same with the midterm taken 3 weeks ago and no grade, just like my Lit class. I have sent him SIX emails that he never answered. The midterm was on NOTHING we wrote papers on, other than one term.
OK so all of that is the mentor, now on to the class itself. Itâs really boring, I have not learned a single thing (other than apparently most people prefer movies filmed in widescreen and theyâre much more expensive for the filmmakers to produce, which is why widescreen is more in stores). I thought that we would actually, I donât know, discuss movies. Nope, we discuss the use of widescreen and why poor people in the Depression liked comedy. The class costs $500+ (I think itâs $525). *sigh* I canât WAIT to be done.
CL:
I have personally read over 30 books for the class (and most of them werenât the typical 20 page childrenâs book, either). You have to write 11 papers for the class, anywhere from 4-8 pages each. I ended up writing over 60 pages for those papers and was so disgusted I turned the assignments all in early just to get them over with. The mentor lost half of one of my assignments. I still havenât had a grade posted in the grade book 3 weeks after I took the midterm.
Iâve estimated that Iâve read over 1000 pages (seriously) and wrote over 60 pages in the last 10 weeks. All of this is for a 200 level class.
Cinema:
There is NO mentor communication. He went MIA in the class and I never got a single assignment graded until week 9 out of a 12 week class. He never has posted ONE thing to the class, no one knows where he went or anything, grades just showed up. Apparently neither did any of the other students. We all (the students) were so worried that something had happened to him that I offered to call the school to see if he was ok. He doesnât even give you a grade on any of the 6 discussions in the class in your grade book because he said, âyouâll see what I gave you when I calculate your final gradeâ. Itâs the same with the midterm taken 3 weeks ago and no grade, just like my Lit class. I have sent him SIX emails that he never answered. The midterm was on NOTHING we wrote papers on, other than one term.
OK so all of that is the mentor, now on to the class itself. Itâs really boring, I have not learned a single thing (other than apparently most people prefer movies filmed in widescreen and theyâre much more expensive for the filmmakers to produce, which is why widescreen is more in stores). I thought that we would actually, I donât know, discuss movies. Nope, we discuss the use of widescreen and why poor people in the Depression liked comedy. The class costs $500+ (I think itâs $525). *sigh* I canât WAIT to be done.
I'm done!
B.A. English, TESC, completed December 2008
Tests passed: A/I Lit-73, Mgmt-71, Amer Lit-73, Tech Writing-64, Criminal Justice-56, Here's to Your Health-65, Law Enforcement-60
B.A. English, TESC, completed December 2008
Tests passed: A/I Lit-73, Mgmt-71, Amer Lit-73, Tech Writing-64, Criminal Justice-56, Here's to Your Health-65, Law Enforcement-60
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