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1 Year of Bachelor in winter semester. My second Vorlesung…After a week of Freshers spectacular while he is still super good mood (Restalkohol) I but socially disturbed kommunikatorisch (are simply not as easy as in American Aufklärungsfilmen named after that various pie connection on the University). Especially after the disaster of the session "introduction", where somehow no English wanted to speak to me. However, today was a glimmer of hope. Note: it is y no better deal breaker of ice for intimidated students as a well tempered with some used to expose the vocabulary.
09: 00, conference room
Just in time teaching pushes desk is a gentleman mid-height with huge white moustache and much gewaltigerem beer belly behind, rips the fist tight in the air and cries: "Hello team!
Puzzled faces among the students. Property to wipe even Spuke of Professor of the people face in the first row, he stomps in towards the Centre of the room. ""Hello team!"s continues, he wants to see"Action".". Some students struggle through finally "Hello" If the expectant happy face of the professor at a quiet.
As it looks at Austrian or German University, but here in England is you as a student as did addressed no Ahung "Team", and that any if you submit before the Professor alone or in group. Finally you kindly feel, be part of the great community of the University and the Professor therefore does not respect show - reminder: authority in the English universities is Ugh.
Educationally valuable or not, in any sensational case like mood of the morning for academic content. goes further: "Hello team! I can 't hear you!' calls by the lecturer, a hand behind the ear of holds and the other here with his finger in the air, as if it was not a University Professor, but motivator for verbally limited special students.
After that students meet this time satisfactory loud does not have a long monologue on the importance of dialogue between teachers and students first follows rather than knowledge relevant-manual. Namely, big is written in England, there is not really a Conference without teachers who required students to the participation of the verbal instructions on a regular basis.
The first lessons of management there (specific: "Management in context", a Conference on the various political and economic factors for managers and those who want to it). Delete: after each instruction the teacher is "Yeah?" or "you feel me?" turn. As if we were not in Southampton, but in the Bronx in New York.
Between there are a few attempts at more or less boredom with small "team work". Long by about 3-5 min pauses, where it is supposed to keep a small discussion on a question of Professor with the neighbour of the seat or seat neighbor are intended. The Professor chooses then generally one or two students randomly, which must then present the results of the discussion in a few words.
Absolutely crappy courses - the purpose is of such exercises but not an academic, but a social: such forced mini talks to facilitate students to close social contacts (mostly very young in English of the first year and unstable universities). Such negotiations minies are also more rare studies. In the last year are rather because that hard small soft facts speak. However: in the first, a good way to come up with a comrade in the conversation couple weeks at least.
- The recommended manual
At the end of the semester, no there was no audit - the classification occurs when 'Management in context' by 4 small (about 1500 words) of long essays, each in a different current theme. The limit of 1500 Word now appears not many words, but just that also includes the difficulty on this subject: capture, is more difficult than you think what is important in such a small word limit.