Timeline for Teaching a class likely meant to inflate the GPA of student athletes
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| Jun 8, 2019 at 9:09 | comment | added | WoJ | This is a very good point. I took a few similar classes in subjects very remote from mine (economics for dummies when getting my PhD in physics for instance) and they were fantastic. The teacher knew that there would be 90% of people who would slack and 10% of completely unrelated students with whom he can do great things. The course ROCKED and was a huge success among these students for a few years. | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 4:21 | comment | added | Kevin | Love this answer! And to be honest, I think it gives OP the freedom to do some really freaking awesome things. Imagine getting to teach a college course where you get to do demonstrations of Planning Fallacy, do a game show of Causation vs Correlation vs Coincidence, and do a "Here's something weird: everyone write down a reason it might be that way, and a way you could test out whether you're right." You have the chance to teach the most important class that they might take, all because you don't have a rigid set of goals to achieve! | |
| Jun 6, 2019 at 22:17 | comment | added | Roddy | I too took a "rocks for jocks" (topics in geology) in undergrad! I wasn't an athlete, I was doing it for my gen-ed credits. It was the most fun I had in a gen ed science class, ever; not because it was easy, but because it was so interesting. My "lab" partner (an actual athlete) actually declared a geology major because he enjoyed it so much. Of course this was more of a legitimate "explorations in..." or "introduction to..." type course than what OP has described which does, as you mention, sound much more like a scam. | |
| Jun 6, 2019 at 13:30 | history | answered | Van | CC BY-SA 4.0 |