The remaining role, of lover, is taken by a student, named Jaques, whose semester assignment turns into the quasi-chimerical great work "A Field Guide to the Machines," an obsessional attempt to organize and categorize.
"They were having to remember, and to work on, stuff they'd learned previously — plus the new material," their teacher, Jen DeMik, said of last semester's assignments.
A test run this semester (one assignment) ended up in an interesting selection, from paper to glue, pastels and crayons, cast soap and sugar, and even bio-plastics made from both milk and potato starch.
The torturous semesters of poetry assignments were the black holes of my creative writing classes, and my very vocal hatred of those assignments were probably some of Carlo's (who, by the way, may have passed out from shock, someone may want to check on him).
The capstone assignment was introduced during the 10th week of the semester, when instructors assigned students to groups.
Throughout the semester students were assigned to midterm and final exams, group projects, laboratory reports, term papers and assignments to appraise their performance.
But recently Yale students who like to sing and prefer learning by doing have had a more tantalizing option: They can try out for the course Analyzing, Directing and Performing Early Opera, in which the class assignment each semester is to put on a fully staged production of a selected Baroque work.
My students' assignment every semester is to look at police departments around the country and check their complaint systems.
In the third semester, the take-home assignment focused on HIV infection.
Writing instructions for the assignment on semester 1: 'Have you studied anything else before medical school?
What are your personal goals?' Writing instructions for the assignment in semester 5: 'Reflect on your view of the medical profession when you wrote your last reflection – what has changed during these five semesters of studies?
