System Overload

The midterm offered its frustrations and painstaking studying for some people but for myself I noticed that I could use more preparation and internalizing of the material. Finding relations between the respective artistic and cultural qualities of each of the places we learned of was not all that complicated rather remembering the factual aspects that threw me off. The danger in this kind of writing or test-taking is that you find yourself basing each culture off of your own interpretation and not how it would have been viewed in their societies. Granted the end result can prove to be okay, but that in itself is not true comprehension of the culture. What kind of steps does it take to improve this knowledge? I believe at some level it takes a personal responsibility to ask questions in class and research some on your own to get those deeper comparisons within the cultures. The nature of the course itself does not really set us up for this rather, and by no means is this a professor’s fault, it sets us up for surface level fact based information and both the students and professors are overwhelmed by the shallow end before they even take a dive in the deep. The solution I believe is an overhaul of the entire class structure but this can be saved for another blog for now I will resolve to furthering my knowledge as much as I can in the current system!!