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Started by LakeNeuron · 10 months ago

The blogging class I was going to teach, starting next week, at the Tennessee Technology Center at Shelbyville didn’t “make.”
TTCS advertised the course schedule — without saying who would be teaching what — but I didn’t d ... Continue reading »

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  • kcwc

    10 months ago

    Ah, the vagaries of the cancelled class. I happen to know something about this. Different schools have different rules about how a class "makes." Usually, there is a minimum number -- 5, or 10, perhaps, depending on the size of the school and its financial stability. Other schools have a complicated matrix whereby an individual faculty member must have an average number of students, so they can teach a small specialized class if they teach several large GE classes.
    I suspect what happened in this case is that it was a new class, so students and their advisors didn't know about it., or weren't clear on what requirements it might fulfill The department probably didn't advertise it on campus (that sort of thing is usually instigated by the faculty member and can help a new class make). Also, listing a class as taught by "staff" doesn't always inspire student confidence. The class was an unknown quantity to students and their advisors, so they didn't sign up. It's not you -- they didn't know it was you.
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  • LakeNeuron

    10 months ago

    Well, it wasn't a real ongoing for-credit class; it was just one of those non-credit enrichment classes that schools like this do for the benefit of the community. So the target market wasn't so much the full-time TTCS student body.
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