What I've always found useful for those boring as warm day old spit classes was to look at how the stuff could be applied in a practical setting. Either that or seriously mess with the instructors mind with some subtle questions etc.
For instance in a humanistic psych class our instructor always would rail against behavior modification and how it really did not work with people. Since several of us were also taking a behaviorism class at the time we decided to see if we could demonstrate how effective behavior mod really was. The target behavior was getting the prof to do his lecture in one corner of the room - he had the habit of roaming back and forth at the front of the class. So first we had to get him to stay on one side of the room. We asked questions and visibly paid attention to him only when he was on that side of the room. Then after that we narrowed things down almost to the corner. By the end of the class we had him talking mostly from the corner. Just as the class ended, we let him know what happened. Interestingly enough he did not rant against behavioral psych for the rest of the course. larry On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:31:55 -0500, Michael T. Tangorre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me just say that out of all the graduate level courses, certification > training classes, undergraduate classes, etc, the graduate level class I am > in now ECO-550 "Economics and Management" is the most boring class I have > ever taken. How do you economists stand it? > > Do you really enjoy looking at regression models of demand? Do you really > like reading about higher coefficients of determination? > > This class is like being tied to a rock with wet leather straps in the > middle of the dessert... slow, painful death. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:145396 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
