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Rating of Introduction to Modern Logic With professor Grasswick H
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1.) Value of course and concepts to overall education: 42% Not much 37% Average 21% Valuable

2.) Did you find the material presented ... 53% ... boring? 32% ... average? 16% ... fascinating?

3.) Overall class atmoshpere: 63% friendly 37% average 0% competitive

4.) Hours per week spent preparing for class: 21% 0 - 2 53% 3 - 5 26% 6 - 8 0% 9 - 11 0% 12+

6.) Were your grades deserving of your efforts? 65% Yes 30% Grades were lower than I thought I deserved 5% Grades were higher than I thought I deserved

7.) Professor or assistants were available to help, if needed: 100% Yes 0% No

8.) Would you take another class with this professor? 47% Yes 53% No

9.) Would you recomend this class to a friend: 45% Yes 55% No

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What advice would you offer to someone comtemplating this course for next semester?

Comment from Anonymous
The material could have been presented better. Also, I feel that exams would have been much more do-able with more time; I felt that I wasn´t given a very fair opportunity to demonstrate what I know in the allotted time.

Comment from Anonymous
This class was incredibly hard and not interesting in any way. Logic is very weird in general and a completely useless thing to learn. It can also be painful to listen to Grasswick's annoying voice in class. She assigns a ridiculous amount of tedious homeworks and take home quizzes and midterms and then makes u take the final in-class. Do not take this class.

Comment from Anonymous
I would definitely advise everyone not to take this class. Material is not interesting at all. Prof Grasswick isn't very good at explaining the concepts. She doesn't do an effort to make sure that the students understand the concpts. She worries about being ahead of her own syllabus. In class we basically copied down notes that she had on the overboard. I studied really hard for the final and didn't do well at all. Please don't take this class.

Comment from Anonymous
I guess I could pretend to entertain the argument that the subject of Logic is one that might in some way benefit the way I think/argue-- but thats about all I could do. The class was an absolute drag. 8:00am @ Twilight, and Grasswick's excitement/volume of her voice was just not at all matched by the atmosphere in the classroom. The material can be learned individually and after each class (I went to almost all), I wondered why I bothered waking up and didn't opt to actually just read the chapter myself. Grasswisk was right about one thing: you either get the material, or you don't. It clicked for me, but I watched alot of others struggle. Don't take this class unless you have a a well-thought out reason, an awkward love for logic, or just simply want to try and prove every review thus far wrong.

Comment from Anonymous
An easy course, but I'm not going to kid people by saying it was useful.

Comment from Anonymous
The class was not as bad as advertised. The content is not the most exiting stuff you will ever see but it is a requirement for Philosophy majors and a good way to get a deductive reasoning requirement. The test and quizzes were pretty straight forward. I would recommend taking it with Grasswick rather than with Khalifa.

Comment from Anonymous
"Promoting general metacognitive awareness" - Schraw, 1998, p 119: "Too often teachers discuss and model their cognition (i.e. how to perform a task) without modeling metacognition (i.e., how they think about and monitor their performance). For example, as a former math major, I have seen hundreds of mathematical proofs performed in college classrooms, but I cannot ever remember any of my instructors describing their thought processes (i.e., a metacognitive analysis of their proof) as they performed the proof." I'd say that Grasswick modeled how to do proofs correctly, but (due in large part because she's got a tremendously strong grasp of the material) she didn't quite model how to know if you did them correctly: "Just think it through until it makes sense." I consistently doubted my performance on homework and tests, and my grades reflected my doubts.

Comment from Anonymous
make you think a lot

Comment from Anonymous
If you don't like math then this is the best DED route you can take. Grasswick does an amazing job to teaching the material in straightforward manner. If you aren't mathmatically inclined I would suggest taking this course with her as she structures to to cater to people who don't naturally pick up the material. She's also just an awesome prof. For Philosphy Majors: the course is interesting and focuses on a completely different branch of philosophy, which can help you strengthen your own arguments and critiques.

Comment from Anonymous
Unless you're a philosophy major don't expect it to be useful. A lot of students hated it because they expected it to be more useful/relevant than even the professor would claim. I didn't mind the class because the material was relatively useful in analyzing different philosophers.

Comment from Anonymous
The class is really not that bad. Basically the whole thing is doing proofs. Just stay on top of the material and you will do fine. Almost everyone I knew in the class did fairly well. My one criticism: everytime she said the word "AGAIN" I wanted to cut my ears off. She says it uh-gain (or uh-gane) and it is so awful and awkward. unfortunately she thinks its a cool way to say it and that it makes her special and so she says the word about 10 times EVERY class. who says the word again 10 times in 50 minutes, let alone in 5 days. She says it so many times when there is no need to say it. Classes ended 3 months ago and i still cant get it out of my head.

Comment from Anonymous
If you are someone who takes well to logic this is a great class with very interesting material. There seems to be a large discrepancy between those who get the material immediately and those who really struggle, but Professor Grasswick works hard to make sure everyone has the help they need. It is a great way to fulfill the DED requirement.

Comment from Anonymous
This class was awful. The material presented is useless--even for a philosophy major. Find another way to get your deductive, and for all the philosophy majors, best of luck. The class wasn't really that hard, but Prof Grasswick gets lost sometimes and she breezes through slide shows. I don't know if the material is just impossible to teach or if she just has a hard time articulating it, but she confused me more sometimes...

Comment from Anonymous
I didn't think this class was that hard, probably because logic comes naturally to me. A lot of people struggled but Grasswick is very approachable and available for extra help. Obviously logic isn't the most useful thing in the world to know, but I found that it satisfied a part of my brain most other classes don't require. It's a requirement for PHIL majors, obviously, but also good for people who need that DED credit and aren't fond of math. Grasswick isn't the most fascinating prof but she does a reasonably good job explaining concepts and she's pretty endearingly quirky too.

Comment from Anonymous
So if you're taking this class for a DED req, it's alright. I enjoyed learned a totally new system, but though it's fascinating, the system of logic is so cerebral. I haven't used it since. Grasswick doesn't even grade, it's her TA, so there really is no subjectivity. You're either right or you're not. This isn't essay writing. It's a problem set a week, with the first midsemester being fun and moderately difficult. After the midterm, the problems get more convoluted and messy. Lots of people always ask "why" and "how come" and it's frustrating. It's a made up system, so there's no damn reason! You just gotta accept it. No critical thinking is allowed, cuz you just don't question logic. Grasswick's funny canadian accent is also something to look forward to in those bleak winter/spring days trekking to Twilight. The final was tough though. Lowered my grade bad.

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