Stephanie Ramsey

Very little. Reading the book is very insightful, although the framework of the course did not allow me to learn anything else than I would learn on my own.

Medium-heavy CC workload: Discussion board posts due monday and wednesday nights (60 words each) 2 written exams 1 final in-class essay 4 writing assignments (2-4 pages each) 1 final persuasive essay

I enjoyed reading my book and think of the many ways its content could be applicable to my field of work.

A philosophy class for students who want most of all to avoid actually doing and discussing philosophy. If this sounds like you--if you are taking CC purely because you have to and would normally avoid philosophy like the plague--then by all means enroll in Dr. Ramsey's section. If not, then read on. As far as I can tell, there are couple reasons why students might enjoy Dr. Ramsey’s CC. She really is a nice person and is approachable. It’s not hard to sense that she is genuinely concerned about the success and welfare of her students. Other commenters have noted her frequent digressions about binge drinking or partying to be strange, but to my ears it comes off more as genuine good-will than anything else. Dr. Ramsey is a perfectly fine person, but she builds her class around such hopelessly misguided pedagogy that I began to dread Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. What about her teaching style is misguided? The biggest issue: this class allows for next-to-zero critical engagement with the philosophers on the syllabus, preferring summary. Class discussion works in the following way. Ramsey will ask the class a question about the text with a right and wrong answer, usually asking for the definition of a key term. Sometimes the class will be silent either because nobody did the reading or nobody wants to answer a dead-end question. Other times someone will answer and, regardless…

I learned that while many of my fellow classmates were working or taking part in internship that I thought were barely relatable, we were able to find some sort of common ground between STEM and libereral arts students - even if the common ground is only 1 inch.

3 Essays, 80-word response per book (not per night), 2 midterms, 1 final. Midterms have simple passage ids and a simple essay, the final is a collaborative project. Sounds like a lot but really isn't too bad.

There is very little interaction and the interaction allowed is not timely.

I really liked Dr. Ramsey for a few reasons: first, her class is very clearly structured: she posts discussions questions for each reading to respond to on Courseworks, and that's what you spend a good portion of the class talking about the next day. She also comes up with pretty cool activities to go with each reading. She definitely helped me understand the books a lot better. Also, she is definitely one of the nicest teachers I've had at Columbia: she's really funny, cares about her students, and actually spends the money that the Core office earmarks for us on a game night, outings, and museum trips. The grading as far as I know, isn't too bad. It's more than possible to get A's on the papers. She also gave us a curve on our midterm which isn't too bad. Also, if you don't do well on your papers then she actually provides a lot of feedback that can help you improve. Her feedback is actually really helpful and will help you get a better grade if you follow it.

Prof Ramsey is probably one of the most caring - but "strict" in terms of following instructions and meeting deadlines - she has all her students introduce themselves and then we get paired off into discussion groups with people you'd never believe you could never have anything in common with and then you find very much find that others in entry level positions are struggling in ways similar to you and you look forward reading the discussion board each week, becoming part of a weekly routine. I believe that I will miss my discussion group when this class ends. 1 Columbia University: Arts & Sciences Fall 2022 Course: HUMAUN2000_001_2022_3-CoreasPraxis/Fieldwork : HUMAUN2000_001_2022_3 - Core as Praxis/Fieldwork Instructor: Stephanie Ramsey

We had a lot more reading than the majority of the other sections, but our tests were super easy. She has you write three papers, each 5-7 pages - keep in mind there are some sections that don't have to write a single paper at all. The overall workload is on the high end relative to other CC classes.