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Re: how applicable/beneficial is anthropology ??mike shupp (ms44278@HUEY.CSUN.EDU)Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:11:15 -0700
> The model you describe could be adapted for anthro courses at those > schools that have the needed support staff (e.g., grad students for labs, > recitation sections, etc.). I have always toyed with the idea of having a > lab/recitation for my intro class, and even have the facilities, but can > only handle 15 at a time, and would require my teaching 10-12 > lab/recitation sections per term. I'm not that dedicated. But, many > schools do have the resources, and I think could do something along the > lines you propose. I don't think TA's for an introductory anthropology course have to be anthropology majors themselves-- why not use linguistics and history majors or biologists or even physical scientists, as long as they have enough anthropology to stay ahead of the students? I don't know about SUNY; the graduate students here at CSUN are mostly not involved in teaching, and given such a thing as an alternative to the average campus job, I suspect numbers would jump at the chance. > > The key point that emerges from your description of the 6.01 course is the > committment of the faculty to education, something many of our colleagues > lose track of in my experience, preferring to be isolated scholars and/or > social critics and not teachers. More emphasis needs to be placed on > teaching in recruitment, promotion, etc. Thinking about it in retrospect, one of the payoffs of that approach to teaching undergraduates was that it also taught a lot of graduate students to take teaching seriously ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ms44278@huey.csun.edu Mike Shupp California State University, Northridge
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