tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post4982380908901317584..comments2023-12-15T02:38:55.020+10:30Comments on Still Life With Cat: Teaching writing*Kerryn Goldsworthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-16047278481299495562009-06-15T18:18:40.561+09:302009-06-15T18:18:40.561+09:30I wasn't in the meeting that decided on "...I wasn't in the meeting that decided on "To Hell with Dante" as a final year Italian subject, but I did manage to pass the subject, and it makes me smile on those rare occasions I look at my transcript.<br /><br />So does "Medieval Monasticism and Governance", because the lecturer had told us he liked to give his subjects the most boring names he could think of to deter the less dedicated students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-17611938961280470362009-06-15T14:48:48.496+09:302009-06-15T14:48:48.496+09:30I was in on one of these 'naming' meetings...I was in on one of these 'naming' meetings at a smallish NZ university once - I was the (mature) student rep on the Faculty committee. The discussion ground on and on, but got truly stuck on a subject in which students would read recently published NZ writing (both fiction and non-fiction). Previously, non-fiction had been considered not sufficiently literary to occupy the attention of English students, so this was a politically-charged discussion. "Recent writing in Aoteoroa/New Zealand", the choice of the person who would be teaching it, was initially rejected as too long. The discussion wound through various other suggestions incorporating post-colonial, modern, post-modern, local, and combinations thereof, until I broke in with "Post-recent local writing." Several people appeared to seriously consider this until I laughed and they realised **it was a joke**. And of course we settled on "Recent writing in Aoteoroa/New Zealand". Such events really do happen, although it's hard to believe if you haven't sat through one of them.M-Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18409916623998907121noreply@blogger.com