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 As a class, I think what is really working for us is a collective enthusiasm and willingness to explore new ideas.  Discussions are respectful, but open, which unfortunately is not always the case in every class.  I feel like there is fairly equal participation, and my classmates, and even professors, are very motivated to discover more.  I actually really like that it seems like Professor Grobstein and Professor Dalke seem to be really exploring these concepts with us and learning a little themselves.  It make the learning atmosphere more interactive and encourages us as students to push ourselves a little further.

I agree with Anna, I would have liked to learn a little more about Social Darwinism.  I feel like we mentioned it a lot in class without fully discussing what it was and what it entailed.  Along with Darwinism, I would have liked to go more in depth in more recent developments in the theory of evolution.  We acknowledged that Darwin made false assumptions and parts of his 'story' did not really make sense.  It would have been interesting to see what has been added to the theory since then and how the 'Story of Evolution' has evolved itself.  After all, if anything, the theory of evolution shouldn't be static, it should evolving!

I am looking forward to next quarter's discussion of evolution in literature.  This is something that I have sort of discussed before, but not in depth, looking at the progression of stories and literature on a larger scale.  I am not sure how exactly the theory can be applied to literature as well, but I have some ideas, and I'm hoping to see how they play out.