Being Bad

This is my final post. I am supposed to write and reflect upon the module with this and I must say it has been a mixed experience.

The module has managed to both very interesting and interminably boring in equal measures. Lectures on Body Modification, Bad Humour, Film, masturbation and prostitution were very interesting and really made you think. All the others were delivered badly and as a result most people had given up attending by the end of the module. Religious extremeism was a great let down, especially with it being a very current event.

I think this module was designed to make people aware of alternative ways of looking at topics such as tatoos and gambling and it did succeed when the lectures were delivered enthusiastically and with passion but it ran out of steam.

The assessment is another matter. At no point were we told exactly what we would be marked on with the blogs. We had set criteria, there must be X number of links and responses but no guide to content at all. This left many students that I have spoken to and myself very confused and worried incase their work counts for nothing. We have all assumed that we must put an opinion across as to whether a particular topic is indeed bad in each post.

On the whole I have enjoyed this module. It was refreshing to have an open and frank conversation about masturbation in an academic atmosphere but I'm not sure I would reccomend it to new students.