Online Education Review

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Personally, I love online classes! I am really bad at getting up and going to classes, so having on my computer and able to work on it whenever and wherever I want to is a major plus. On the other hand, it sometimes can be confusing and hard to keep up with all that is required of you. That's why I love this class (and the myth-folklore class!) - because everything that you have to do is laid out in a week by week way. You are never wondering what is required of you and you always know where you stand points-wise. I love that this class has that week by week thing and I also love that there are certain assignments due on certain days. I love the reading diary posts because there is no specific word requirement so I don't have to worry about that, I can just write whatever I'm thinking about the reading at the time, so they ensure that you're doing the reading while also allowing you some leeway. If I were to design an online course I would honestly do exactly what you've done here because I can't imagine anything better than what you've already done. I especially love that we can pick our own readings sometimes and get to know what interests us!

Gen. Ed. Review

 

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Overall I have not had the greatest experience with gen. eds. but that could just be because I prefer all of my majors classes and thought that most of the gen. eds. were a stupid requirement. I liked this class and a couple of the other classes, but why, I ask you, do psychology majors need chemistry/physics, algebra, or environmental science?? They don't! There's no reason for me to have taken any of these things unless I was planning to go to med school and had declared the pre-med option (for chemistry) or something like that. There's no point in a psych major having physics and we learn all the math we need for psych in statistics so algebra or calculus is completely unreasonable. When will I ever use it? Never. Do you want to know why? I have a calculator and the internet my friend! If I were going to design a gen. ed. program it would have the humanities and histories and political classes and english classes that are included now, as everyone should probably know, but would not include anything to do with math, physics, or science, as those things should be based on the degree that you're in. 

College Writing Review

(Writing)

I'm a psychology major and we don't have a lot of writing courses, per se, but we do have A LOT of writing in our different psychology courses. The problem with this was that for my psych classes we had to write in APA style and in all other classes (like all of the gen eds I had to take that required writing, i.e. English classes, History Classes, and some science classes) I had to use MLA style, which I'm really bad at in general and always have to look up how to do things now that I'm in the hang of APA style. I've taken classes that were writing intensive like my Honors English 1 and 2 classes and my Honors History class, all of which required a ton of writing. And now I'm in a science class that requires a lot of writing of lab reports. Plus all of my psych classes required things like research papers or term papers. I don't really think a lot of these classes have helped me grow as a writer because they all wanted different things and nitpicked about different things, so I'm not really sure what's the right way and what's not. But this class has helped me because it's focused solely on my writing skills and not so much on APA vs MLA or on the topic at hand. This is really the most helpful writing class I've had so far and if I had to design a class, it would be just exactly like this one, both in my major and out of it, though within my major it would have pointers about APA style and outside of my major it would have pointers about both styles.