In some classes a few students raise their hands, but more often than not, my introductory classes are filled with monolingual college students.
The boys in my introductory physics class, who had taken far more rigorous math and science classes in high school, yawned as our professor sped through the material, while I grew panicked at how little I understood.
Just last week, in my introductory philosophy class, my students and I discussed how the United States legal system assumes a certain notion of moral responsibility, which itself depends on a particular understanding of free will.
To use that word as a noun these days is so rare as to require clarification: I'm talking about photographic negatives, the technology that a decade ago, in my Introductory Photography class, we still used.
Coming from a restaurant-owning immigrant family like mine, where anyone who did go to college majored in economics and not science, just explaining what I learned in my introductory biology class could sometimes take hours, let alone a more complex topic like disease control.
Try it yourself sometime, as I do with students in my introductory biology class at Paul Smith's College, not far from Saranac Lake.
With an eye towards the latter benefit especially, I have included an oral component in all my introductory Latin classes.
I analyzed the wines chemically and physically, and was able to conduct my own research panel from this and teach about my research to a large introductory class as a Teaching Assistant.
I basically told Galinsky that I was going to show up with my crew and shoot his introductory class from beginning to end.
In a 90-minute introductory class, Cherrell assessed my writing and set me homework.
