There was some conversation yesterday in the faculty meeting about classes and how classes should work. I was hoping to get the opinion of students who attend exactly what they are hoping to get from their classes.
Here are some options, and these aren't all of them, but maybe use it as a jumping off point for your opinion. And please, keep this thread for CU students/faculty only. Its their opinion for their roleplay.
1. Classes can be structured like lectures, with teachers sometimes extrapolating, sometimes actually teaching subjects like a college class. It can be paragraphs typed up ahead of time and case sources of stuff from the net. Basically students sit in class and then have the opportunity to ask questions about the prepared topic.
2. Classes don't necessarily have to happen at all, if RP is structured around campus life and not necessarily the act of going to school, instructors and students can NPC their classes
3. Classes are all taught discussion based/Socratic method style and are dialogues with students. The best classes for these are the humanities (hard to have a roundtable about calculating inertia) so like Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics, etc etc. Instructors could facilitate student input.
4. Classes could have nothing to do with traditional structures at all and just be opportunities for teachers to blackmail students, sex sex and more sex, etc etc
5. Classes could be all project based, where students are assigned to work on projects and then class time is to talk about how those projects are going (solving poverty, etc etc, paying it forward, blah blah)
These are just my off the cuff options, maybe you have more. But its important that the needs of the roleplayers are met and that those choosing to play faculty and admin provide those opportunities.
I am going to be helping Mist oversee student activities outside the classroom, I will start an additional thread in a day or two regarding that after this one has been bounced around.
