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I guess as a professional with 20 years experience, I don't see how I will learn anything from this assignment. Looking at it from the point of the kids in the class is a different story.
Thanks for all the great prejorotive replies, though. People on here really show thier insecurities
You have 20 years of academic experience and are asking this? Or you're trying to relate non-academic professional experience to academia?
Exactly what they are. I'm a minority in these classes at my age and level. Didn't really think about that until tonight. Prof. Knows Im way beyond the levels they are teaching in the cur. Part of our conversation today was the challenging extra credit stuff I can do for the class. He gets it. I'm just frustrated with having to take such elementary classes. I was beyond this stuff even in High school.
It's not a class intended to convert you to one of those religions, genius.
By that logic, only a man who wants to be a woman should sign up for a Women's Studies class...
That's hilarious! lol
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LOL. I spoke to the professor and he agreed with me somewhat. Offers me some extra credit ifmI didn't want to do the assignment.
Good for you, I guess, I wouldn't have given it to you.
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If you get a chance, consider attending a university at some point in your life. You'll learn why such a class can be important whether or not you believe in God.
Oh god, please do, his/her grammar is horrible!
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As a freshman in high school my daughter needed to interview several WWII veterans for an assignment. This was almost 10 years ago and she still occasionally talks about the positive experience.
That's awesome! Being the history guy that I am, I would love to have an assignment like that!
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I guess as a professional with 20 years experience, I don't see how I will learn anything from this assignment. Looking at it from the point of the kids in the class is a different story.
Thanks for all the great prejorotive replies, though. People on here really show thier insecurities
There are no securities here, only truths. So you are not a college age freshman, funny, I would have thought so having read your posts.
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I have to get that piece of paper to advance in my career, despite already being qualified. Hey, I'll play by the new rules. I loke this class amd the professor a lot. After seeing it from the standpoint of the average student, I get how this assignment could teach them something. I get it.
Yes, the assignment is so simple to me as to be banal, except my lingering distaste with the church (it has to be a Christian denomination for the assignment) as a gay man. That and having to depend on a response from someone who could care less about me. Still waiting in call backs...
If you were qualified already, then you wouldn't have to get the piece of paper, now would you?
So now the insecurities are out, you are saying that they don't care about you, how do you know? Not all christian denominations hate gays like Westboro Baptist church. After all the objective is your assignment, not your sexual orientation.
whine. I had to take a class in grad school that I had already taken as an undergrad. whine. Because they wouldn't accept all my transfer credits. whine. I had to study things we had already studied in high school. whine.
I had already been a teacher with my own classroom but I had to be a student again. whine. I had to travel around and set up interviews with people and get them to tell me about their jobs. whine. I had to intern even after I had been working all those years. Good thing I'm not arrogant or I wouldn't have done them and never would have gotten my master's. What an attitude.
LOL. I spoke to the professor and he agreed with me somewhat. Offers me some extra credit ifmI didn't want to do the assignment.
So when you are actually out in the real world at a real job and your boss gives you an assignment that is out of your comfort zone, do you think he is going to offer you something else for "extra credit"?
This assignment is about the real world and has nothing to do with Religion but has everything to do with what each member of specific denominations to in and around the community and how it fits into their specific position. You could have asked how they decided to become a Pastor/Priest, if they have been Missionaries, do they visit hospitals, etc.. Amazingly enough ALL of that IS part of the Real World.
Prof. Knows Im way beyond the levels they are teaching in the cur. Part of our conversation today was the challenging extra credit stuff I can do for the class. He gets it. I'm just frustrated with having to take such elementary classes. I was beyond this stuff even in High school.
Unless the questions have been written for you, an interview is as "elementary" or as "advanced" as the interviewer wants it to be. It takes some skill to make a good interview.
Exactly what they are. I'm a minority in these classes at my age and level. Didn't really think about that until tonight. Prof. Knows Im way beyond the levels they are teaching in the cur. Part of our conversation today was the challenging extra credit stuff I can do for the class. He gets it. I'm just frustrated with having to take such elementary classes. I was beyond this stuff even in High school.
So get into some controversial stuff with the interview. Ask them how they deal with sexual misconduct. Ask them what their understanding is of the principle of fiduciary trust as it applies to clergy. Ask them about the status of women in their denomination. Do some research in advance, and find some topics to needle them on.
See if there are any unusual denominations in your area, like the Orthodox Church, or Mormons. Try a Black church. Do something different. You might actually learn something!
whine. I had to take a class in grad school that I had already taken as an undergrad. whine. Because they wouldn't accept all my transfer credits. whine. I had to study things we had already studied in high school. whine.
I had already been a teacher with my own classroom but I had to be a student again. whine. I had to travel around and set up interviews with people and get them to tell me about their jobs. whine. I had to intern even after I had been working all those years. Good thing I'm not arrogant or I wouldn't have done them and never would have gotten my master's. What an attitude.
Unfortunately, that's how students are nowadays. It's horrible and it needs to change. They want the paper, but they want to do as little as possible to get it.
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lol I love someone whining that someone else is whiny and has it easier than they did 
