Showing posts with label University of Wisconsin - Stout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University of Wisconsin - Stout. Show all posts

Friday, October 16, 2009

What would you do?

My sister is a student at the University of Wisconsin - Stout. She is in an advertising class that is required to graduate. From all accounts, this professor is a complete waste of space. Her style is to present a PowerPoint slide, leave it up for a few minutes, then turn it off and have the class recite it back to her. She claims this is how bachelors students should learn and interpretive learning should be left to graduate students.

Not surprisingly, every student but one from her two classes failed her first exam of the semester. Here is an example question:

_____ refers to the organization of the elements of a package.

a- structure, b- design, c- layout, d- physique, e- elementation


Being familiar with this language, I confidently told my sister, "Layout." Nope. That's what she said, too. But according to the professor, it's "Design." I'm not even going to get into all the things that are wrong about that.

So anyway, everyone is upset and multiple students have complained to their advisors about this. The university refuses to take any action this semester. And the professor responds, "My teaching style is just different than Western professors."

What would you do? How would you respond to a situation like this? Would you tacitly accept it? Would you organize a sit-in? Start a hashtag? Just raise hell? I'm curious to hear your thoughts.