Final Reflections on English 2150

Reading the course description for this class, one would think that this class would probably be the most boring that Baruch had to offer. However, the person thinking that would be in for a rude awakening. I honestly did not believe that this class would be so fun and actually mind opening to how much we don’t pay attention to things that actually happen right in front of us. Even relating back to earlier in the class when we discussed Churchill and the level of open racism that many Americans don’t seem to notice. I also learned that you can talk about the same topic for more than one circumstance. Having to write three papers about race and justice seemed like it would take a toll on me but I actually enjoyed it and I think that it helped to strengthen me as a writer. When you are forced to write about the same general topic, you seem to specify more and those three papers actually ended up being on three different topics. I think that what had the most impact on me about this class was doing the readings and having discussions about them in class. This had the most impact because it is interesting to see how different people perceived the same things I did but we had two different opinions on it. I think the discussions also made us more comfortable with each other and this was very important to when we were grading each other’s papers. I thought that the peer editing of our papers would end up with them just being critical but we actually learned about each other and were able to end up helping each other in the end. Overall, I think this class was excellent and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who had to take it.