Rant
Rant:I seriously despise this Class. Since WSU decided to lump all communications majors together, including us print journalism people, we have certain courses we have to take. Fine, I understand that goes with the territory, but must we have classes that have no bearing on our major? I’m currently enrolled in Comm. 325 Speaking in Business and the Professions. Yeah, read that again.
Business. I’m not a business major. I’m a journalism major. I will write sports for a living (hopefully) and sports related columns. Why I have to take a freaking course about speaking is beyond me? Oh did I mention I already have a public speaking course that transferred?
If I’m going to speak, I want it to be creative. I’m not going to be leading gigantic proposals about some hostile take over. I’m not going to be negotiating major meetings summits. We just got done reading this book called “Getting to Yes” about the art of negotiating. How this relates to journalism is way, way, WAY beyond me. I’m going to talk to people. I can interview people. I can ask questions. I don’t have to negotiate when the other side plays dirty tricks.
Today I almost committed murders. I wanted to jump over the girl sitting in front of me with a horrendous yell and jam my pen into the red-headed kid’s head. From there I was going to dive roll and jump kick the instructor. The reasons being, the red-headed kid asks the same question that someone else just asked. It’s within seconds of the original question. DUDE, clean the earwax out of your ear and pay attention. Not only that, but the questions that were being asked, were all answerable if the people would have looked at the freaking book!
The instructor is an older lady who is set in her ways about how this class should work. Every little detail has to be down to her specifications rather than any creativity. I feel as if we’re pouring what little info we have into her form and canning the speech. There’s no room for any creativity, and guess what, I’m going to remember a creative, fun speaker rather than a dull one whose speech seems canned.
I hate that class. And don’t even get me started on the science.
/Rant
posted by Rusty @ 1:05 PM
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