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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Intro level courses across disciplines** are designed to reach a range of students. Therefore, the textbooks are more cut and dry. Professors sometimes try to challenge intro students to think beyond the cut and dry, but that's only successful for the "good students" who know how to do more than memorize information. Upper level courses across disciplines are still concrete to a great extent (we'd be debating students' grades all day if there was never a clear right or wrong), but go beyond the "concrete" and therefore have more leniency (both good and bad) on the part of the professors.
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Ha, that's probably why I hated many of the intro classes- I can't stand rote memorization! Give me something to do with the info and I'm happy, but I will never be the one to recite names and dates and places and whatever.
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And in the years after, with tears or with laughter, we'll always remember our dear Kappa days.
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