An easy way to engage students is to ask them lighthearted, trivia-style quiz questions about the syllabus. Scavenger hunt (prep time: 5-10 minutes). Here are some ideas for how you can use the syllabus to get your class off to a great start. Magic happens when we give students an alternative to the deadening march through the syllabus-every requirement, the laborious rules and institutional policies, all of those features of higher education that are more about risk management than learning. We can create more engaging and inspiring ways to begin a class and more effective methods to guide students through even a daunting syllabus. Campus COVID cases spike at semester's start.A faculty member reflects on why she switched to ungrading (opinion).Eastern Michigan faculty strike over health care, governance.
And when students ask about subsequent assignments and deadlines, the weary teacher can respond, predictably, “It’s on the syllabus!” The experience is enervating, for students and instructors alike. For overworked teachers, this gives us a quick lesson plan for Day 1: we review the syllabus, answer questions, everyone (including ourselves) is made to feel sufficiently anxious and overloaded, and then we’re done.
Who hasn’t handed out a conventional syllabus and watched the collective life drain from the class? The longer and more intimidating the syllabus, the greater the distance between you and your students.įor first-time teachers, this might feel like the safest option: the syllabus becomes a buffer, a display of expertise and authority. We promise: shorter is better-and so is giving your students a voice in what they will be learning. And take some time to think about the purpose of a syllabus, a course and higher education more generally. Ramon Film Productions.As we all rush to prepare our syllabi this August, as social media fills up with instructors lamenting how many hours they are spending and how impossibly long their syllabi are growing, we recommend something counterintuitive: stop for a moment! Breathe. Iain Chambers (Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road)Įlisa Strinna (Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road)Īndre Eugene & Leah Gordon of Atis Rezistans | Ghetto BiennaleĪrts Collaboratory / Kunci Study Forum & Collective Wilma Lukatsch (Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road) Joen Vedel (Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road) Kenan Darwich & Sami Rustom (Fehras Publishing Practices) We look forward to seeing you during the hundred days of documenta fifteen.Īna Carolina Fernández Alfonso / Serigrafistas Queer We invite you to read the May 7 letter from ruangrupa here. We denounce the media participation in these smear campaigns. We also express our dismay and disappointment at the amplification that the original baseless blog post of disinformation and manipulated content received in some of the mainstream media. And we stand firmly against all forms of discrimination, including racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, sexist, transphobic, anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian, anti-Roma, ableist, casteist, classist, and ageist actions and attacks. We are united against the racist attacks that started this sequence of events. This is a very worrying escalation of the situation that began almost six months ago here in Kassel. On May 28, the exhibition and living spaces of documenta were broken into and defaced with what can only be interpreted as a death threat. Since that time there has been further racist activity against us, and it has crossed over from the digital space into our physical spaces. We, the lumbung community (the artists and members of documenta fifteen), add our collective voices in support of the letter that was published on May 7 by ruangrupa, the artistic team of documenta fifteen, and some curators of the failed forum “We Need to Talk! Art – Freedom – Solidarity,” in response to the ripple effects of the false accusations of anti-Semitism made against some members of this lumbung community. Referencing the California Penal Code, “187” is slang for murder. Graffiti on the wall of a space allocated to the Question of Funding collective, documenta fifteen, 2022.
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