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...inconveniences of shopping period--cramming into a Sever classroom with a hundred of your closest friends and then darting across the Yard hoping to grab the last syllabus of a class meeting at the same time--are tribulations we have learned to live with...
Finally, professors can hit the ground running. Under the shopping days system, instructors in their first official class meeting can begin lecturing on the subject matter in earnest. The shopping days meetings fulfill the functions of general introduction and discussion of the syllabus...
...chief drawback to KSG's shopping days is that time is set out for shopping which instructors otherwise might want to use as a full lecture period. Experience has shown, however, that many first College lectures are devoted to a course introduction and review of the syllabus--the very functions of a shopping days meeting...
...exploring course opportunities, listening to different lecture styles and choosing the best four or five options. But for many of us, the lasting impression of shopping period is the stress of fighting our way to the front of a crowded room to pick up a copy of a syllabus, sometimes only to discover that all the copies are gone...
This proposal would look much like a course syllabus, with a list of lecture topics week-by-week, coursework requirements, reading assignments and section topics...