Once, was a nice Italian woman who'd never taken philosophy in her life, another was a recent graduate who was going into the air force (Lara Richmond). This is philosophy - make the concepts clear!Īlso, I think because the department only offers this class once year, they've gotten lax with whom they allow to be their TA. He streamlined everything, discussions weren't just "what do you think Henry? What do you think Sally?" - which is a waste of money and time.
Actually - he was the best TA (I went to the others). Junwon was an Asian TA with an accent, many were a bit nervous they would be lost in translation. I think the grasping of the material really depended on your TA. I heard his review for the final was very helpful though. People stopped going to his office hours because others kept asking him personal questions - which is interesting, but hard to come to for 3 hours when you have so many other things to do (although you can always excuse yourself too). People use this to talk about anything, because Morris is a lovable professor, but really, use this time to ask about the material. Other's iked it in that they could see a film and relate it to a class topic. Open-ended, which some TA's felt mad it more difficult for students. BUt, if you contact him, he will understand, for example, he mentioned ivan illiych wasn't going to be covered on the midterm as a student mentioned to him it wasn't covered in class. And, his going on in one topic sometimes confused me on what I should really tkae away. He was enthralling, but at times, he did take forever to get to a point or move onto a new one - it was frustrating, sometimes it felt like it came in with the territory (as one thought went to another - as a philosophy) other times, I just felt stressed that we were falling behind.
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Look into how to write one fro your TA and look up online, ask for examples even. Even our TA mentioned she'd never heard of this for a philosophy class (which she majored in at Ucla).Īlso, philosophy papers are much more different in structure that English papers - they are much more bare bones, dry and need to be very concise. The class was pretty stressed about this, (at least the essays were to be about 1 page each, I believe), but many students didn't finish them - BRING A WATCH AND TIME YOURSELF - PRACTICE WRITING 1/2 HOUR ESSAYS. Midterm - 2 essays to be written in one hour (so you get half-an hour each)įinal 6 essays to be written in three hours (so you still get half-an hour each) The Artist's Way (Morris' article - what he lectures on so if you miss his lecture - I'd read this instead - it was more helpful) The Drowned and The Saved (only a few chapters out of the whole book were relevant - like Shame)Ĭourse Reader (CR) (These are shorter and most are excerpts He may add more, as people suggested he use poetry next time.
He changes the texts (and added more for our class). So, read online summaries, skim, and just focus on the themes/quotes read in class, and find similar quotes too - highlight/use post-it notes for easy access I felt frustrated, because there was so much to read, (and much of it so interesting) but I felt it was in vain as the focus wasn't on the themes, literary devices - instead is was on "whether this character is jealous or envious, and explain" type of stuff. Upper divisions are much lighter, specific and doable. but I feel most g.e.'s do pile up on the reading. I felt the reading was way too much for a g.e. I would definitely just skim/read plot summaries on them as this class doesn't focus on the literature aspect, as much as the psychology of the characters. There were 8 main texts to read for the course.
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