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If it’s Florida State, why go?

FSU is another school that should put itself entirely online.

During my spring semester at Florida State University last year, I took an art history course that met at 10 a.m. in a lecture hall across campus — at a location prohibitively distant from my dormitory at that point in my life. Apart from quiz and test dates, I showed up to the class exactly three times that semester: the first day of syllabus overview, the second day when I realized the professor was reading directly from PowerPoint presentations posted online and the third day midway through the semester when I found an attendance policy in the syllabus.

Margaret Soltan, December 1, 2010 4:54PM
Posted in: CLICK-THRU U.

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3 Responses to “If it’s Florida State, why go?”

  1. GTWMA Says:

    For those students who carp at attendance policies, I have a standard reply…do you know any employer who will pay you if you do not show up for work?

    Or, if I’m in a playful mood, I just quote Woody Allen.

  2. Polish Peter Says:

    Seats in the lecture hall must not have been very comfortable. Otherwise he would have experienced the great joy of huge lecture classes with slides being shown in darkened lecture theaters: the best 50 minutes of sleep you’ll get that week!

  3. theprofessor Says:

    No exams in an art history class? That is strange.

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