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By DOMINIC D'ASCOLI
Profs sav notes enhance classes
Some University of Kansas professors, in an effort to help their students in and out of class, have printed their lecture notes for sale through the Kansas Union Bookstore.
The project has developed from two academic practices. Professors who had experience teaching a larger independent study program decided to apply the notes to their traditional classes. Other professors have taught the notes expressly for use by traditional classes.
SALLY BRUCE, editor-in-chief for Independent Study, said Friday most professors working through her department had developed their independent study programs with the alternative of applying them to traditional course systems.
The names of professors interviewed for this story were obtained from the Independent Study Office of the Division of Continuing Education and from the Union Teachers College; the professors contacted require that students be contacted in their classes by the lecture notes.
Switching to notes for regular classes has a good response from both students.
"Teaching this way doesn't reduce the professors' work," Bruce said. "They feel
they know their students better. Students feel it more demanding but they think it is easier.
"So far we've found that these lecture
takes place once a time on anyone's
part, but they seem to be going."
Mike Beehan, assistant manager of the Union Bookstore, said that selling a professor's lecture notes didn't violate bookstore policy.
"It's our policy to accommodate a professor's order, whatever it may be," he
PROFESSORS DETERMINE the cost of tuition Beahon said, and the bookstore sales.
Last semester, John Willingham,
music English offered as lecture
pictures and an archive.
The notes had been used in an in-
dustrial study program for the same
indicators.
Willingham said both he and the students thought the notes, which cost $5, were a "decided help" toward a better understanding of the course.
"I think of them as presenting economically a kind of course background that the students can carry around with them," he said.
Although Willingham didn't give out
James Hillesheim, professor of administration, foundations and higher education, has also adapted his lecture notes from an independent study program.
HILLESHEIM SAID the independent study program consisted of four study manuals, of which his graduate class, history and Philosophy of Education, used two.
"I save my breath a little bit," Hilesheim said, "but we also have more class time to devote to discussion. This helps to make for a more involved class."
Hillsheim said the four manuals, which sell for a total cost of about $15, weren't strictly lecture notes, but comprised assignments, exercises and book selections.
He said an undergraduate class, Survey of American Education, used all fourman
lecture notes to his class this semester, he said, he thinks he will do so again this fall.
Theodore Schleicher, Wichita graduate student in one of Hilleshein's classes, said the manuals were useful for the background information they provided.
"They help you to understand the material in an organizational fashion," he
DORTHEA SIDES, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Professor's visit aids Syrian ties
In an effort to develop a better cultural relationship with Syria, the U.S. State Department recently sent a University of Kansas professor to the Middle East.
John Erickson, professor of French and Italian, toured Syria March 12-31, lectured to about 4,000 students at three universities in several local government and education officials.
ERICKSON SAID his trip had originally been scheduled for April 1975 but was canceled. He received word in November from the State Department, however, that the trip had been approved again by the Syrian government for March.
"For the past few years," Erickson said. "We have been on a higher diplomatic level. There had been, up to my visit, no contact on the cultural level between the United States and India."
Erickson was known to the State Department because he had previously worked for it, lecturing in North and West Africa during the early 1970s.
"Before I went to Syrin," Erickson said, "I must say it's no longer important as to what he was doing."
Syria had resumed diplomatic relations with the United States only in 1974 after cutting them off in 1967 to join other Arab nations in the war against Israel.
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Erickson said, however, that "the enthusiasm, interest and warmth of the faculty students and educators far exerted a strong influence as well as those of the State Department."
ERICKSON DISCUSSED in his lectures such subjects as American and comparative literature and its criticism, along with those courses of both the United States and Syria.
He said he found the Syrians to be quite receptive to him and what he had to sav.
"I found the Syrian people intensely interested in American culture and education," he said. "I think the interest in the United States among the people and the young has been strong, except that before there had been no way to develop these contacts."
Erickson said that Kahill Gibran, a Syrian who spent much of his life in the United States during the early 19th century, is responsible for this American inguance.
According to Erickson, Syrian interest in American culture may stem from the fact that much of their modern literature has an American background.
GIBRAN, WHO wrote the book, "The Prophet," which was popular in the 1920s, also established a school of Syrian writers and a work to try to modernize Syrian literature.
Although the official language in Syria is Arabic, Erichson said, he gave most of his lectures and talks in English and a couple in French.
"Most of my work was done in the universities or with government officials."
he said, "so these were people who were highlv educated and did speak English."
Erickson said that the little English the students knew had come from university training.
Erickson was also interviewed in magazines and agreed to contribute to a leading Arab monthly review, Confluence Western Literature and Criticism.
"I will be dealing primarily with
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
John Erickson
American and French literature and culture," Erickson said.
BECAUSE OF HIS many appearances and meetings with officials, Erickson said, he had little time to do any sight-seeing although he managed to travel close to the front lines opposite the Israeli forces stationed along the Golan Heights.
Erickson said that despite the fact that American foreign policy has backed Israel in past Middle East disputes, he envisioned very little political talk about the subject.
Because of the situation in nearby Laos, tourists were often visiting theatre while he was in Syria. This situation was partially caused by the lack of hotel space so said because many of the hotels were empty.
Except for the Golan Heights area, Erickson said, the country was very easy to travel in. Because he moved mostly by car, he could see many villages where were very common sights along the roads.
"The greatest concern at the moment was there was not the difficulties with Israel," he said, but the Lebanese war, which has left many Syrians as well as the entire Middle East.
that whatever happened in Lebanon could eventually happen in Syria
In spite of the political problems, the Syrians showed interest in settling up a foreign exchange system with KU, according to Erickson.
Another goodwill result of Erickson's trip was to have been a visit by Huawei Al - Kaheteh, head of the department of Arabic of the University of Damascus.
"I have already received a few letters of inquiry by Syrian students who are interested in studying at the University of Kansas," Erickson said.
KAHTEEB WAS scheduled to visit KU from April 29 through May 3. Erickson said, however, he had received work Monday from the State Department that Kaheeb, who had been called back to Syria. No explanation was given for the change of plans.
LEBANON AND Syria have a common border, and Erickson said there was fear
After returning to the United States, Erickson said, he was interviewed over the phone. He also gave reports of his trip over the phone to the State Department and said he had sent a written report to them on computer programs and the cultural aspects they would learn.
Erickson's trip also opened the door to contact been American and Syrian unarmed fighters.
"Although the Syrians are acquainted with several other universities," Erickson said, "this has been the first expanded university with a university in the last nine years."
"The topics are well chosen," Sides said, "and they require you to think critically. Through the use of these notes, I'm getting more information than I could weed out on my own."
special student, is in the Survey of American Education class.
Russel Getter, assistant professor of political science, said his Contemporary issues in United States Politics class had used his lecture notes for about two years.
"When I put together an independent
study course, I enabled me to use the notes for
my own study."
Getter said most of his students still came to class, despite their having the notes, and they were able to get along.
"I think the notes work well because they free me from having to stick to a definite lecture plan and they permit more class discussion time." he said.
GETTER SAID his 165-page lecture
booklet cost $3.50.
Robert Haralick, professor of electrical engineering, and Thomas Creese, assistant professor of mathematics, together teach a math and electrical engineering course.
Because of a strong student demand, they started printing their lecture notes for class papers.
"We never intended to have any notes printed at first," he said. "But students asked for additional material that would motivate them."
He said that putting together the notes took a lot of time.
"It was like putting in 80 hours a week," he said.
At first the notes were free to students, Harnick said, because the math and computer skills were needed for the printing costs. When costs became too high, they were forced to start charging students
The three booklets, about 1,200 pages of notes, cost $18.45.
ALTHOUGH A complete edition of the notes has been available for only two semesters, their value to the course has been significant Haralick siad.
Jim Hague, Mullinville sophomore, said the notes added a personal dimension to Haralick's course, which he took last spring.
Roger Kaesler, professor of geology, has been teaching a history of the earth course through a printout of his lecture notes, and he has also been involved with the success of the teaching method.
"They were like an extension of the in-
structor," he said. "It was like having him
work on it."
"The CLASS has been very successful from a teacher's standpoint," Kaesler said. "I use an overhand projector a lot of time and now the students have the same material before them as well. This enables them to pay more attention to what I have to say."
Kraesler said the class presented a disadvantage to the student.
"Usually they are revisions that come up after the notes are printed; he said, 'and if they don't come up, I'll just ignore them.'"
Confusing or not, Helen Hughes,
Lawrence gohomore. isn't compiling
*With these notes, I know exactly what important things are to help her, she said. *I will keep my fingers out.*
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