Three cheers for my alma mater!

[katster]

Because things like this happen only at Cal...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1832000/1832279.stm

(Before anybody thinks we're really a bunch of oddballs, DE-Cal is short for Democratic Education at Cal, classes taught by students for students. I took history of Cal and perl coding in this fashion, and most of the times, the classes are worth it. And you can only take the classes P/NP. Very much worth it, though...)

Comments

[phenyx.livejournal.com]

Heh, I was reading this today in the Canadian papers... as I moved from one paper to another heading west, the same story got reported with an increasingly conservative (and negative) bent to it. Hee.

[zorbathut.livejournal.com]

you know, I can see this happening at Oberlin also . . . the only difference being that nobody would bother reporting it to the paper :P

Ah, the days of youth!

[lirazel.livejournal.com]

Heh!

I went to Antioch, where everything was/is pass/fail. No grades. Nada. It's the best way to learn, because you can only compete with your own self. People who don't get it drop out like flies, but the people who do drive themselves harder than any grading curve could make them.

The course idea itself is perfectly sound; my father, a professor of psychology, used to teach such a course--fully clothed, I might add. I question the value of field-trips, though; seems to me that the average college campus would provide plenty of material, and that external data collection should be privately organized and definitely self-funded (though perhaps one of the men's magazines could offer a grant...).