tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post7013013535583289484..comments2023-10-31T07:32:11.739-04:00Comments on Wormtalk and Slugspeak: Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566889846240013567noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-49041226471418760552008-11-21T16:13:00.000-05:002008-11-21T16:13:00.000-05:00Would you be willing to send or post your Tolkien ...Would you be willing to send or post your Tolkien syllabus? (I'd ask to sit in on the class, if I weren't 1k miles away.) Not least because I'm reading LOTR, again, at the moment, for probably, oh, the 25th time.Naryahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05369280617520806983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-55404394225301715312008-11-14T17:21:00.000-05:002008-11-14T17:21:00.000-05:00For some reason my medieval lit and Chaucer classe...For some reason my medieval lit and Chaucer classes haven't been as big in the last two years, but usually they get about 30 students in each, and I'm supposedly at the kind of institution where students are interested in "practical" and "useful" fields. And since this isn't a residential campus, it's not because students have recommended *me* to each other. It's all about the medieval lit. W00t!Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-46587191107836678902008-11-14T08:08:00.000-05:002008-11-14T08:08:00.000-05:00Your enrollments definitely speak to your effectiv...Your enrollments definitely speak to your effectiveness as a teacher, so congratulations!<BR/><BR/>I wonder, and maybe you could blog about this sometime, how exactly you teach a literature class with with 60+ students in it? I suppose you could approach it as a lecture class, but I doubt that's what you do, and I imagine that the Tolkien class is an upper-level lit class anyway. Your Chaucer class, with over 30 students who need to learn to read ME, must be quite a challenge, as well. So how do you do it?Tom Elrodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14634982419388998095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-59506245582409131012008-11-13T20:57:00.000-05:002008-11-13T20:57:00.000-05:00Not only are these interesting course topics (I'd ...Not only are these interesting course topics (I'd give my eye teeth to audit your Tolkien course!) but let's face it - I'd bet the farm that you've got legions of Mike Drout fangirls all over campus. And I use 'fangirl' as a gender-neutral term here. Everyone knows, or hears, who the most interesting, most fun, most engaging professors are, and they flock to their classes. How do I know this? Because the two undergraduate classes I attend (Old English and Old Norse) are filled with students who have told me exactly that: "I'll take everything (insert professor's name" offers!"<BR/><BR/>So pat yourself on the back, and rest in the glow. They love you, man!Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14894152513746944497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-14637650025852008452008-11-13T20:02:00.000-05:002008-11-13T20:02:00.000-05:00. . . . your description of your classes is possib.... . . . your description of your classes is possibly the only thing that makes me wish I lived in the States. *sighs*meredith arwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12609381191469025082noreply@blogger.com