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I had such a situation when I first entered college. I came from a disadvantaged background, and was not a good writer. My freshman composition class was taught
by specialp 5y ago
I had such a situation when I first entered college. I came from a disadvantaged background, and was not a good writer. My freshman composition class was taught by a woman who had us write synopses of what I thought of at the time as boring, long-winded New Yorker articles. She ruthlessly hammered me on grammatical errors. I ended up withdrawing from the course.
Then next semester I had a the same class but a different professor. He was much different. He had us write about our life experiences and things that interested us. You would get the grammatical corrections as feedback but you would not get blasted for them. Over that one semester I used the literary handbook I was given, and got a lot better at it. It really helped me. In my future liberal arts classes I had to take, I got good grades on my papers and they were well received.
- Auracle 5y agoI was required to take an art course in college, and I chose an intro level graphic design class. I’m terrible at all things art other than photography, but I thought graphic design made sense being a CS major an all. My experience was terrible. There was no real artistic instruction. For instance, during our first or second week we were told how to use the pen tool in Illustrator and or homework was to make a logo for a made up company. I, having absolutely no art background, did a bad job. She actually projected my work in front of the class and had me stand up in front to be ridiculed. I decided to drop the class. When I brought her the form to sign all she said was “thank you,” which I very much took to mean “thank you for dropping out of my class.” Heaven forbid you actually need to do your job, professor.
- sitkack 5y agoI am sorry for your experience. Most college level art classes have a pretty strict entrance requirement where portfolios are judged pretty harshly from incoming high school students. Incoming students are basically already required to be good. This instructor was not prepared for you and treated you poorly. Another instructor might have handled it much better.
- navbaker 5y agoThere should also be some sort of option for "art for non-majors" since they indicated that an art class was required. That's usually the way colleges handle these type of required electives.
- SketchySeaBeast 5y agoI fulfilled my requirements with Art History. No drawing required.
- GloriousKoji 5y agoBack when I was in college it was only the math and science classes that offered dubbed down dumb versions to fill the general education requirements.
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- michaelbrave 5y agoas a former Graphic Designer turned Dev all I can say is how much a difference a different teacher makes. I had some design teachers who did little else than explain how to use Photoshop and others who you spent all your time and effort on and bled for their approval like some kind of unloving father figure, who at best would just nod and explain how it's acceptable instead of the usually tearing apart with critiques. This was miserable at the time but like some kind of perverse design bootcamp hammered in the fundamentals. In contrast with your experience, I tried to take a programming class early in college and felt completely alienated by that professor who expected all of us to already know how to code and was visibly and verbally frustrated when I struggled to understand things that were completely new to to me but well known with the rest of the class. It wasn't until nearly 10 years later I finally learned it.
- Romanulus 5y ago