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The question on our class evaluations that really threw me was whether I would recommend this course to another student. I answered yes, but with reservations. I personally both enjoyed and was frustrated by this course. I enjoyed both what we learned about science and what we learned about literature, but besides the very basic premise of the course-- that both experience evolution-- I found them hard to link.
This course was a fun change from my other, very fact-oriented, very structured classes, but if I were taking more than one of this type of course in a semester it might drive me insane. I also think some of the confusion came from our own ability as students to direct where the course would go. I enjoyed that-- don't get me wrong-- but with so many students interested in going off in so many directions, it was a little difficult to see the class as a whole. I think it might have worked better with ten to twenty students altogether.