Semester Wrap Up

I found this class to be very interesting, especially as we began to learn about more modern events that have taken place in the Middle East. The one thing that I found to be most striking about the class is the way that conflicts were presented and how this presentation really opened my eyes to the other view points on certain situations. I think anytime a class is able to widen a students perception of events and situations, regardless of whether or not anything else was taken from the class, the class was successful. Although these blogs were tedious and difficult to keep up with, I found them interesting, especially when going through and reading classmates opinions. The only thing I would suggest to be done differently would be requiring students to comment on everyone's blog. Students are going to look at other people's blog just out of pure interest for what other people think, how they present their own ideas, and for a background on what they can write their own blogs on. The video's watched in class were interesting and were good in the sense that it wasn't a constant lecture every class.