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This is my fourth class with yet another stupid assignment. It's a World Religions class and my assignment is to interview a local clergy member. I'm not comfortable doing that! Plus, I've left voice messages at three churches with no return calls. An assignment should NOT be dependent on something like this. Now, I get to get a B or C in this class, instead of an A. Granted this isn't as bad as some of the really over-the-top assignments I've read about in the news over the years. Teachers really don't get the real world at all.
I had a similar assignment in a Religion and Politics course. We had to go to a church service in a different religion and write a short paper about our experience. I was hoping to duck in and out of the service but it was not to be. Everyone knew I was not a member and came up and introduced themselves, thinking I was a potential new member. I felt uncomfortable leaving before the service was over, so I stayed for the entire program and talked to both the pastors since they were a husband and wife team. It was definitely not something I would have done if it wasn't an assignment.
I had an assignment in another class where I had to visit, record my experiences and make comparisons between a fast food restaurant and a neighborhood bar/restaurant, but I digress.
I had an assignment for some anthropology class to interview a person over age 75 -- I did it. Wrote a two page (max) report on it and could have written more.
Assignment to observe a child under age five on three separate occasions--I did it. Wrote a paper on it.
If you are not mature enough to go to the trouble of doing your assignments but to complain and wiggle out of them, how do you think you are ever going to get a job? You will have to go out into the big bad world someday and do things you are not comfortable doing. You do need to get used to that and stop babying yourself.
I decided I was an agnostic at 12. Why would anyone take a world's religions class? Which religion can prove there is a god? But I agree, an assignment should not depend on the behavior of someone other than the student.
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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.
This is my fourth class with yet another stupid assignment. It's a World Religions class and my assignment is to interview a local clergy member. I'm not comfortable doing that! Plus, I've left voice messages at three churches with no return calls. An assignment should NOT be dependent on something like this. Now, I get to get a B or C in this class, instead of an A. Granted this isn't as bad as some of the really over-the-top assignments I've read about in the news over the years. Teachers really don't get the real world at all.
This is an academic setting. A significant amount of your research will be gathered by interviewing all sorts of people during your academic career. I couldn't imagine a more valid assignment for this class at the college level.
It's not that professors don't get the real world. It's that you don't understand academia. Which is sad, given that you're a college student.
I had an assignment for some anthropology class to interview a person over age 75 -- I did it. Wrote a two page (max) report on it and could have written more.
Assignment to observe a child under age five on three separate occasions--I did it. Wrote a paper on it.
If you are not mature enough to go to the trouble of doing your assignments but to complain and wiggle out of them, how do you think you are ever going to get a job? You will have to go out into the big bad world someday and do things you are not comfortable doing. You do need to get used to that and stop babying yourself.
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.
This is an academic setting. A significant amount of your research will be gathered by interviewing all sorts of people during your academic career. I couldn't imagine a more valid assignment for this class at the college level.
It's not that professors don't get the real world. It's that you don't understand academia. Which is sad, given that you're a college student.
I agree.
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