Thank you for sharing the experience. Very interesting course. Research shows that liberal arts courses increase creativity and innovativeness more than other courses. The main reason is perhaps the way they teach the courses. We as engineering can learn a lot from liberal art courses and apply their method in teaching engineering courses.

Yes, the question is very important: why this subject matter and I think it is why we should focus more on Problem Base Learning method. I am also happy I took this course same as you.

Thank you for your post. It is really painful to see that some students only think about the grades. I think the main reason is the way of teaching and not that the students were not interested in the real purposes of education at the first place. I agree with you that sometimes the memorization is useful but a lot of times it is not.

Thank you for the post. Before having a cell phone, I used to remember more than 100 phone numbers. Now, I should think a lot to remember phone numbers of my close friends. You are right, with the arrival of new technologies, we are relying more on external memory and I think it has a relationship with increasing rate of alzheimer.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Exactly. It is very difficult to apply critical pedagogy especially when you have more than one hundred students in the classroom. During this week, I always was thinking about this and how difficult is applying critical pedagogy in a standardized course. Thank you again for your post. I enjoyed reading it.

I agree that students engagement is very important and instructors should have a plan to engage the students in the classrooms. One problem is that how can you engage students in classes with more than 100 students and how can we apply critical pedagogy in those classes considering that you have limited time to teach basics. I like what you proposed and I think it can be applied even in big classes.

Thank you for the post. I like your second example which the instructor used a combination of problem-based learning technique and critical pedagogy. Personally, I learn more if the instructors teach this way.

Thank you for the post. I think most stereotypes come from our childhood. For example, I remember when we were playing football (I mean soccer), some of my friends used to say do not play like a girl! We were around 10 years old and we grow up with these stereotypes.
I have tried a lot to get rid of these stereotypes. However, sometimes the problem is that you do not know a stereotype exist.
I agree with we should teach our children that these stereotypes exist and they should fight back facing them.

Thank you for the interesting post. I really like the third point. Sailors were given a new identity and become a member of a new community. I guess the US army have a well-established procedure about being inclusive. As you said why not applying it in universities.

Thank you for sharing your experience. I taught a course before and sometimes I felt I am just reading some text for students and they are not learning. I just wanted to present a topic and go to the other one. For sure it was not effective!