The Importance Of Lecture Halls

Most lecture halls are quite old ranging from a few decades to even centuries old. However, many of them are equipped modern technology including computers and projectors. This is evidence that UNC places the most significance and money on upgrading the technology than on upgrading the outdated furniture. The contrast between the modern technology and worn seats is large, and it is obviously they belong to two different generations.

It is challenging to learn in lecture halls, and they cannot be considered classrooms. Classrooms provide an engaging learning environment shared with a few students and the interactions with the teacher are personal and frequent. In lecture halls, students share the room with hundreds of other students. Even

Students who wish to take introductory courses will be grouped into these giant halls. The students are deindividualized because there are too many students. This in turn makes the lecture less personal. The learning process also becomes more passive because students are only listening to lecture and are not engaged in physical learning activities. UNC thinks that they are technically providing a quality education because at least all the students physically appear to be taught by actual professors and not teaching assistants. UNC attempts to facilitate this learning process by upgrading technology and by holding recitations taught by teaching assistants. They use this as a crutch to mass produce graduates whose success depends on how much effort the student invests into building his or her future. However, UNC does not care enough to hire more professors, build more classrooms, or replace the furniture in older halls. To them, undergraduate students, especially those taking introductory courses, do not contribute to the university in terms of having work published. This in turn means that these students do not boast UNC’s college rank score which is intended to attract other students who have great potential for success. Having a successful student would means that UNC would be able to ask for and receive large monetary donations from this

They sit in the front so that they are more recognizable by the teacher. By making themselves an individual as opposed to a number, they hope to gain favor from the professor and thus, receive a higher grade. Humans generally feel more comfortable with being unbiased towards complete strangers rather than those who they know personally because there is no emotional connection. Also, because the professor is more familiar with these students, he or she may want to help them if they seem to be struggling with the course work. “Give Me an A” students are concerned with their grades regardless of their interest level in the course. This means that although they may be receiving high grades, they may not care for the course material at all. They may only be taking the course to fulfill a general requirement which UNC requires in order to produce educated graduates who can converse in a diverse range of subjects. However, the other subgroup of this cluster consists of students who are truly interested in the material and take the course as a prerequisite to prepare them for their