The Extraordinary Syllabi of David Foster Wallace

Wallace doesn?t accept the silent social contract between students and professors: He takes apart and analyzes and makes explicit, in a way that is almost painful, all of the tiny conventional unspoken agreements usually made between professors and their students. ?Even in a seminar class,? his syllabus states, ?it seems a little silly to require participation. Some students who are cripplingly shy, or who can?t always formulate their best thoughts and questions in the rapid back-and-forth of a group discussion, are nevertheless good and serious students. On the other hand, as Prof --- points out supra, our class can?t really function if there isn?t student participation?it will become just me giving a half-assed ad-lib lecture for 90 minutes, which (trust me) will be horrible in all kind of ways.?

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