A Review of my Honors Seminar
This is completely real, true, and accurate. I submitted this today as a valid evaluation of my Honors Seminar. I am not sorry.
What did the instructor do that most helped your learning?
Nothing. This is the worst class I have taken since I have come to the U.
This class was supposed to be about autism- but when we got to class on the
first day, Professor Y decided he wanted to teach about prosopagnosia- which no
one cared about. This is not a subject to teach an entire semester honors
seminar about. I am very disappointed in the U for not monitoring
professors and for letting this waste of time happen. I paid for this class
and I regret every second of it.
Not only did Professor Y admit to not knowing anything about autism or
prosopagnosia, but he later let the class know that the only reason he
change the subject was because he plans on doing research into the disorder
this summer. Poor form, take away his tenure.
There was no rhyme or reason to anything we did, no structure, and no real
assignments. The last two weeks of class were canceled to "work on our
papers." The papers were reactions that took about an hour to write.
I am never taking another honors seminar again. You should be ashamed of
the amount of time and money wasted, especially during an economic crisis.
I expect more from a large University like this, but apparently I was
mistaken.
What could you have done to be a better learner?
I could have taken a more worthwhile class.
Additional comments.
Don't get me wrong, Professor Y is a nice guy, but he's a little out-there. He
just expected us to just come to class and discuss the readings, which were
bare-bones at best. How can that be a learning experience? I appreciate
being in the honors track for CLA, but this is ridiculous. If this is "what
grad school is like," I do not want further education.
I was looking forward to an interesting and informative class about autism.
Instead I got a self-indulgent, worthless, mind-numbingly-boring,
wishy-washy, horrendous excuse for academic discourse.
For shame, U of M. For shame.
Names have been changed for the protection of the idiotic.