Yes, I find that somewhat odd, as well. The only time I gave multiple choice tests was during my stint in the 80s teaching formal logic to computer science students at a community college in Toronto. With ever increasing class sizes, I know some profs believe that's the only way to go and survive. Yet another indication that the discipline and the (idea of the)university is presently under siege in the West. An ASM, in melancholic vulnerability, Walter O MUN Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx: > Philosophy courses have multiple choice exams? > > Julie Krueger > perpetually attempting to catch up on e-mails > > ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Fictional > characters Date: 1/4/2007 12:14:09 P.M. Central Standard Time From: > _bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To: > _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: > > On 3. Jan 2007, at 22:46, Walter O. wrote: > > > > > Looking forward to a new year brimming with truth, justice, beauty, > > creative synthesis, wisdom and small class sizes, > > Thanks for reminding me why I'm sitting here in Kiel wondering what to > do with my day - read, play the piano, or work in the garden (where the > temperature is +8 Celsius) - rather than preparing to enter a > 'classroom' filled with hundreds of students waiting to get back their > multiple-choice 'philosophy' exam. > > You've almost cheered me up .... > > Chris Bruce > reaching for the secateurs, in > Kiel, Germany > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html