Poverty Research Seminar

                                                               Inter. 423/Law 391

                                                              Winter/Spring 2008

                                                               Course Evaluation

 

Please grant me the favor of filling out this anonymous course evaluation.  I will not read the comments until the grades are recorded. You need not sign the evaluation.  Obviously, comments about matters particular to your situation are likely to identify you.  I do not mind that if it does not concern you.  I hope, however, that you will feel free to be frank, as I have tried to by with each of you.  Your comments will help to improve the course and the Shepherd Program. Positive comments are also welcome if they will contribute to the course and Program.  You may forward an electronic copy of your answers to pinkhamdl@wlu.edu.  If you prefer, you can send or give a hard copy to Derek  Pinkham in Holekamp Hall.  We will also leave a box for evaluations outside the office door.  Thank you for your time.

 

1) (Undergraduates only) This course is intended to be a capstone for undergraduates who have completed all facets of the Shepherd Program.  Has the course functioned to bring your poverty studies to a culmination?  Does it draw on all or part of your previous Shepherd education?  Can you think of improvements or major overalls in the course to augment the achievement of this purpose? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) (Law students only) this course in intended to offer law students an opportunity to apply their knowledge of the law in an interdisciplinary study of poverty in a way that will inform your professional practice.  Has it functioned that way for you?  Is this purpose appropriate?  (In 2010, this course will change, and we will probably offer one section for second-year students and another one more appropriate for third-year students working with a new third-year curriculum.  If you have advice on how to accommodate the course to the changes in the law school curriculum, I will appreciate reading and/or hearing it.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) Have you benefited from the mix of law and undergraduate students?  Explain why or why not?

 

 

 

 

 

 

4) The essay during the last half of the course is labor intensive for me and for most students?  How labor intensive was it for you?  Is it worth the labor?  Have you been pleased with the final product?  You may comment on your own product as well as others?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5) The readings in the early part of the course are intended to provide common material for discussions on poverty for students at a fairly advanced level of sophistication.  They are not designed to present a coherent introduction to poverty or to move the participants in a direct way toward their papers.  Is this modest goal justified?  Did you benefit from the readings and discussions?  Why would you keep or discard a particular set of readings?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7) Did you use one or more advisors for your essay?  If not (for undergraduates only), did you miss the assistance you might have received from an advisor?  If so, did the advisory system benefit you?  What more could I have done to ensure that you received good advice?  Did the advisory system for the law students work as it was intended to? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8) Would your recommend this course to your colleagues who are eligible for it?  Why or why not?