Poetics and prosody

[icepixie]

It feels weird only having one class that I have to go to campus for. (Thesis hours technically count as a class, but my thesis is starting to become a process of "take a month to write a chapter, discuss it with my director for an hour, take another month to write another chapter, etc." so...yeah.) I think I'm going to very much enjoy this class, though; it's kind of a poetic forms throughout the ages class, with a particular focus on lyric--or at any rate that's what we're starting with--and obviously this will be helpful to my thesis. The prof is a wonderful, hugely entertaining guy. This should be excellent.

Tomorrow I make my students WRITE! Mwahahaha! BTW, did I mention that before our first class meeting yesterday, one of my kids went on Blackboard, found the syllabus, and brought in his homework for Friday? It was just signing a piece of paper saying he agreed to abide by the syllabus requirements (my goal was to have them figure out how to print things from Blackboard, since they'll need it for class readings), but still. That's kind of amazing.

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[wildtiger7.livejournal.com]

According to a friend of mine who teaches college biology, those pieces of paper with the student's signature come in very handy when, later in the semester, they show up complaining about how "they didn't know" or "weren't aware of" a particular requirement. She'd wave it in their face and ask if that was their signature, and they most certainly did know.

[icepixie]

That is exactly why I wrote up my syllabus contract and made them sign it. No one's going to get by with "I didn't know about this requirement!" in my class.