I have absolutely no problem with students critiquing fiction for its inaccuracies.
VERY much (increasingly so?) students are learning "science" from "fiction" and it's horrible. I volunteered to critique the film "Awake" this semester for psych club and it was completely full of medical inaccuracies as well as psychological. It starts with an introduction to anesthesia awareness and very seriously notes that this occurs in 1 in 700 surgeries. Well, most medical journals put the incidence at anywhere from 1 in 3000 if you include the mild forms and only 1 in 75000 for more serious forms. Ever since "science" became a political issue, science knowledge among the general public has gone in the toilet. It is very scary to me. If students can begin to critique fiction for the HUGE poetic license taken, it's fine with me. They are aware on some level that it's fiction but they are usually pretty shocked by just how much license is taken with actual facts about things people might not know about. I am so sick and tired of politics running our lives! It will bring down this society if we don't get a correction in place real soon because we are going on a second generation of students growing up on politicized science. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:28:23 -0500 >From: "Jim Clark" <j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca> >Subject: Re: [tips] Shutter Island >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > >Hi > >If the assignment is to read, review, and critique a _nonfictional_ instance >of psychological writing, then I would probably not agree. The point would be >to get practice processing expository material, and clearly fiction does not >fit the bill. If the nonfictional is not part of the requirement and it is >clear to _all_ students that fiction is acceptable, then ok. > >Jim > > >James M. Clark >Professor of Psychology >204-786-9757 >204-774-4134 Fax >j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca > >>>> <tay...@sandiego.edu> 14-Oct-09 2:33:08 PM >>> >I have a student who wants to read Shutter Island by Lehane for a homework >assignment in my honors intro to psych class. I generally don't allow novels >but he assures me that the story line about psychopathology is one he could >easily critique. > >Are any tipsters familiar with this book? With Lehane's work in general? > >I am not. A web search doesn't give me any real substance to judge on. > >Annette > >Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. >Professor of Psychology >University of San Diego >5998 Alcala Park >San Diego, CA 92110 >619-260-4006 >tay...@sandiego.edu > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
