Page Nine Wednesday, December 9, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, December 9, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Class restrictions approved, hit ........... . ri.r (Continued from Page 8) and says she has "learned ab- solutely nothing all year." "The teacher thought it would work well if we didn't have any restrictions," she explains. "But its a very bad class, a total fail- ure." "During class we just sit around and listen to the teach- er talk. Nobody knows what he's talking about cause nobody did the readings," she says. "But we don't care enough to ask ques- tions, so we just sit there." She believes such unstructur- M ed courses are detrimental to the learning process because t h e y "have no beginning and no end and nothing in between." Many students find fault with both large lectures and s m a 11 recitation classes. The most common complaint is that the. f lectures are too impersonal and the recitation Is merely a regur- gitation process - either of the reading material or the lecture material itsself. They believe the major prob- lem in the way courses are structured is the extremely large Daily Official Bulletin (Continued from Page 5) Cntr.: "Myths About the Chicano Fam- ily", Assembly Rm., Rackham, 3 p.m. Botany Seminar: Dr. V. DeMouline, Univ. of Liege, "Biological Studies in Lycoperdon," 1139 Nat. Set., 4 p.m. Meteorology & Oceanography, and statistics Seminar: Dr. R. Thompson, WoodsHole Oceanographic Inst., "Spec- tral Estimation From Irregularly Samp- led Data," 4205 Angell Hall, 4 p.m. Physics Colloquium: A, C. Winn-Niel- sen, "Atmospheric Energetics," P&A Colloq. Rm., 4 p.m. +General Notices Choral Music Concert (by College Honors 199): Law Quad Lounge, Sat., Dec. 12, 8 p.m. Applications for Graduate Student Dissertation Grants may be m a d e through closing date of Jan. 8, 1971. Late applications cannot be accepted. Two other opportunities for application will be provided during the year: April and October. Exact deadlines will be announced; students are expected to have a %clear statement of the research problem together with the estimated cost of each major expenditure connect- ed with it; project should have been reviewed by members of the doctoral chairman or the chairman of the de- partment. Guidelines and format for this submission can be obtained in Fellowships Office, Rackham Bldg., rm. 1014; info (4-2218). and unwieldly class units, parti- cularly the lecture, which c a n have anywhere from 100-400 students. However, most professors say they revert to a less rigid at- mosphere in small, upper-level* graduate courses. "I find it very difficult to be fair to everyone when there are such large numbers of students in a class," Crawford says. "I regret the lecture system as much as some of our more out- spoken students do." Derr goes as far as calling the large lecture a "monstrous institution," but adds, "It makes some sort of standardization of structure necessary, because the student is out of touch from the personal contact wih the teach- er." "The ideal is to come down to a more personal level," Derr says. And the way a teacher comes down to a more personal level in order to reach students is the subject of serious discussion among many instructors. "The role of the teacher is to Placement 3200 S.A.B. The following Ann Arbor Area jobs have been received. Many listings na- tionwide are available at Placement Services. 3200 S.A.B. Michigan, Human Relations Exec., bachelor's degree and 3-7 exper. in per- sonnel, employee relations, counselling, educ., or human relations. Harvey Aluminum of Mich., Inc., Me- tallurgical Engr., BS, no exper. National Assessment of Educ. Pro- gress, Computer Programmer, job now in Ann Arbor, must be able to move with firm, June 1971, to Denver. Relo- cation expenses paid. . Kellogg Co., Battle Creek, Structural Designer, degree in C.E., also jobs in central engr. dept. for bachelor's level with 0-5 years exper. Highland Park Model iCties, director: Youth Services Bureau, bachelor's min. with 4 yrs. exper. Deputy Director - Youth Services Bureau, exper. Man- powver Coordinator, some admin. exper., L and residency in Model Neighborhood Area. Deputy Director - Model Cities Program, bachelor's min. in urban plan- ning or relat. field, exper. Grand Rapids, planning technician I, degree in urban planning; publ. admin., arch., or landscape arch. For further information on following contact Career Planning, 3200 S.A.B. N.Y.C. Urban Fellowship Program, National Competition sponsored by Ma- yor Lindsey. Full-time internship for academic year 1971-72 open to students in many areas of study, including fine assist students in the learning process," says history Prof. Ger-, hard Weinberg. "This can best be done by a variety of tech- niques." "Calling attention to points of view they might not have seen or had access to, holding class discussion or question-and-an- swer periods even in large lec- tures -- all these things can be beneficial," explains Weinberg. Prof. Carl Cohen, associate di- rector of the Residential Col- lege, strives for informality in the classroom situation. "Many pains and difficulties in other academic units flow from their sheer size, Cohen says. "No one knows one ano- ther. All are strangers. A n d since strangers have to work formally, it makes for a certain stiffness, imposed order a n d strain." Prof. Felheim, along with many others, believes the ideal class is a "happy medium" be- tween rigid structuring and total freedom. He says generally all requirements are "absurd", but arts, who will have completed at- least junioryear."Seniors must have been admitted to a grad school which agrees to grant academic credit and tuition waiver for participation in this pro- gram. Grad students must be granted academic credit by the university. A stipend of $4000 given by NYC. Fellows work with top mayoral assts in prob- lem-solving, planning, and ,mgmt. areas. Grand student from U of M was one of last year's winners, is currently on duty as intern. For more info. come to Career Planning or call 764-6338. Many Metropolitan areas hold career conferences during Christmas Holidays Please check with us for others as we get them in; listed at Career Planning. B'uffalo area, Dec. 29 and 30, Statler Hilton, applications available. (Continued on Page 10) still adds "you can't give stu- dents total freedom, because that goes against the very grain of the University structure." "But it is really up to the student to determine his own educational structure," Felheim stresses. "The teacher is only here to teach. It is the student who is here to learn." Psychology teaching fellow Warner Woodworth says the characteristics of rigid c l a s s structuring do not contribute to the learning process, basing his beliefs on his basic assump- tion of human nature. "Most people are motivated to learn," he says. "Learning is na- tural. Most of the time we have blocked it rather than helped it. The teacher should try to help students rather than keeping them in control." Concerning future class struc- turing, history Prof. S a m War- ner envisions a situation where "if we open up the University, it will be necessary and benefic- ial to conduct teaching at sev- eral different levels in t h e i same course, and the student Icould choose the level of sophis- tication that best suits his inter- est in the material." "Hopefully, in future years we could give up to eight credits for a course, depending on t h e work a student is willing to per- form," he adds. The many questions surround- ing class structure will not in all probability be solved soon. Physics Prof. McCormick puts it in a nutshell: "The whole thing is so dif- ficult that I don't think there r is any one idea for success," he says. "Each teacher must pick 'his own way." ., ; .:; :: i Ak / V 1k Si /7 - . Jk li 'a, I I - I *1 c Catch the sparkle of the-morning sun, hold the magic of first lone. Diamond rings of artistic excellence ' and highest quality. Ii & ANN ARBOR - -I-- you're one in 30,000. belong. get involved through a sorority. UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL 750 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts Nurses (in the Union basement) THE STORE THAT BROUGHT YOU THE 10c BIC PEN, 4C XEROX, THE $6.98 GEORGE HARRISON, THE $2.98 SECURITY BLANKET AND MRS. 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