Studying computer science I felt doing any reading was a waste of time. As much as I like having a conceptual understanding. The focus was overwhelmingly on "solve problem", "follow algorithm", "submit code that doesn't crash". Professors cared about results only
That's because Computer Science is treated as vocational education. Philosophy in particular, and the humanities in general, are typically treated as liberal education. People typically study computer science because they want a job working with computers in some manner (Programmer, sysadmin, DBA, etc.) People typically study philosophy to improve the way their mind works, regardless of what they do with their mind.
As a English literature and philosophy major, I know that it depends on the teacher and the material in the English Literature class. For Example my English Seminar on Adrienne Rich we read some of her collection of poems and essays. However, It turned out you didn't have to do the readings since there were topics that would always be able to be discussed during the Socratic seminars. In my experience with philosophy doing the reading is a must.
I watched all your lectures on Philosophy, and not having the text for those classes to read alongside them felt detrimental to my ability to retain a lot of that information. I still got a lot better sense of a lot aspects of philosophy, but I can tell that I could have gotten much deeper understanding of it all.
Sorry that you didn't have the texts. I have now put up the reading lists and some of the readings themselves on my website: www.jeffreykaplan.org/youtube
By the end of college I was reading almost nothing. This was for poli sci and philosophy classes. I watched a lot of youtube and familiarized myself with the major schools of thought on whatever topic we were studying. I would look at the intro to the readings, find out generally which view an author was espousing, and find one or two examples/methods of argument they were using. That along with being attentive during lectures was enough to get me to graduate summa cum laude at a decent school. Maybe not the best way to do it but if you study smart you need to read like 10% of the assigned material.
I’m now a graduate student in a field that is in both the social sciences and history and this video is funny to me because of how totally necessary it is. I remember in undergrad I had an excellent history professor who basically had us read entire books in between class sessions. However, skimming wasn’t good enough because she actually required us to take notes on the books (including page numbers). Obviously you do still end up skimming, but in a closer reading way. She said her reasoning was that if you ever do real research or do a PhD or something, this is a thing you will absolutely need to do, so she wanted us to learn it in undergrad. Something else that one of my favorite anthropology professors in undergrad told us (I was a triple major in undergrad) was exactly what you say now. She was quite open about how to “read” a research article. She told us basically verbatim to read the abstract, intro, conclusion, and then some stuff from the middle. That’s generally enough to have an intelligent discussion about the topic. Indeed these things from some of my undergrad professors were actually very helpful for grad school and just generally for my research that I do.
Law is absolutely fascinating but its also very difficult to absorb on one pass of any one paragraph. Although im confident that I have certain disabilities that make it more difficult, I would imagine others wouldn't need to read that paragraph and sentence 10 to 15 times followed by reflection on what I believe the language is saying. This im not sure of and it would be interesting to know if this is standard or if my struggles where more isolated.
Thank you for every single video you've posted!!!! They have helped so much in my journey of starting college so late in my 20's. I was nervous and quite frankly scared of the unknown and feeling so behind but learning this way makes it exciting!!! THANK YOU!!!
Decades ago,before tech, I studied to be a geologist. Maps and drawings abound. I found the easiest way to learn and memorize the geology of an area was to color in the maps and X-sections..
first yr physics i wrote extensive notes. we had the walker text book for physics. i started to study for tests n exams from this text book because it was the Best Text Book i ever read !!!!!!!! to this day, i never once read those notes i wrote !
wow, holding back on droppin a thesis here (being concise is ~naht~ my forte.) but uhh, yeahh- just wanted to say that your input is so, SO invaluable dude! I definitely caught myself making a number of the mistakes you've mentioned in your playlist thus far, haha. I've noted the patterns and failures, tho I did try repeating said mistakes.. I thought if I just changed this or that, then X might work out, but nope ^__^ I've accepted that I just can't procrastinate and that cramming doesn't work for me. It just took me an entire semester :S anyway, back to the playlist for me ^_^ ohh, and totally looking fwd to the following part of ur ethics video! I found it to be both interesting and amusing so definitely hoping that you see that one thru ^__^
As an engineering major forced to take philosophy and literature, my strategy was read enough to make a couple points during each seminar. If your points are well received use those as your jumping off point for the papers you have to write.
In my years in undergrad, I read at the beginning of the semester. But as the semester progressed, my term papers took up so much time that I could not do any of the readings.
Let’s not underestimate how dry, esoteric and boring the readings can be. Especially in philosophy. If only more scholars were more thoughtful about *who* they should be writing to.
“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time rationalize why you didn’t read the entire assigned text.” - Immanuel Kant’s secret approach to grad school readings, probably.
Honestly, I did not strongly prefer one over the other. Enormously enjoyed my time at both. They are massively more similar than they are different. I definitely have opinions about the relative quality of various universities that I have attended and worked at, but between Oxford and Cambridge I don't have much.
Yeah? Swimming pools are big social spaces and were segregated for the majority of U.S. history, and it's kind wild that they exist at all. It's not like a library where there's a financial incentive in the form of education, it's _literally_ just a public work for the sake of it.
I guess it's way too country-oriented. I took a (mandatory) introductory sociology class, did 0 reading, got a 10 and nailed marx on the final. I am not kidding. I did non, 0, nada reading. I hate life. They gave like 3 articles and 2 books every lecture and none of it was relevant. Nothing. Sure i got a perfect score but why the fck is this made so badly that you can pass doing 0 reading. That shouldn't be allowed. Not in college.
I watched several of your videos... You really love to talk... To explain a simple thing you use so many words that is almost funny... But much of your explanations about people thinkings and behavior lack deep understanding of the human mind... You only see logical ideas and racional thinkings... You omitt feelings, emotions, ... People are racional and emotional... You only care the racional part and your ideas about people are incomplete and lacking understanding.... You are a bit childish.
Lol, I completely disagree with you, he communicates perfectly and is really thoughtful about everything he says, I don't want to be judgmental but from what you typed/how you typed it, I'm assuming English isn't your first language?? And your comment shows a bit of hypocrisy...we can talk it out, can you elaborate?
Studying computer science I felt doing any reading was a waste of time. As much as I like having a conceptual understanding. The focus was overwhelmingly on "solve problem", "follow algorithm", "submit code that doesn't crash". Professors cared about results only
Same, except for knowing quiz/test material haha
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That's because Computer Science is treated as vocational education. Philosophy in particular, and the humanities in general, are typically treated as liberal education.
People typically study computer science because they want a job working with computers in some manner (Programmer, sysadmin, DBA, etc.)
People typically study philosophy to improve the way their mind works, regardless of what they do with their mind.
@@mattlivingston2192 What a great answer!
This works but only in courses where written content exams with mostly conceptual information takes up 50+% of the grade lmao
As a English literature and philosophy major, I know that it depends on the teacher and the material in the English Literature class. For Example my English Seminar on Adrienne Rich we read some of her collection of poems and essays. However, It turned out you didn't have to do the readings since there were topics that would always be able to be discussed during the Socratic seminars. In my experience with philosophy doing the reading is a must.
I watched all your lectures on Philosophy, and not having the text for those classes to read alongside them felt detrimental to my ability to retain a lot of that information. I still got a lot better sense of a lot aspects of philosophy, but I can tell that I could have gotten much deeper understanding of it all.
Sorry that you didn't have the texts. I have now put up the reading lists and some of the readings themselves on my website: www.jeffreykaplan.org/youtube
@@profjeffreykaplan thank you, I really appreciate that!
Thankfully, a lot of these reading materials (or possibly all of them) can be found for free online.
By the end of college I was reading almost nothing. This was for poli sci and philosophy classes. I watched a lot of youtube and familiarized myself with the major schools of thought on whatever topic we were studying. I would look at the intro to the readings, find out generally which view an author was espousing, and find one or two examples/methods of argument they were using. That along with being attentive during lectures was enough to get me to graduate summa cum laude at a decent school. Maybe not the best way to do it but if you study smart you need to read like 10% of the assigned material.
2023 graduating student from NIU, 3.953, awarded best in my program, in 4 years i only ever read my introductory chem textbook
I’m now a graduate student in a field that is in both the social sciences and history and this video is funny to me because of how totally necessary it is.
I remember in undergrad I had an excellent history professor who basically had us read entire books in between class sessions. However, skimming wasn’t good enough because she actually required us to take notes on the books (including page numbers). Obviously you do still end up skimming, but in a closer reading way. She said her reasoning was that if you ever do real research or do a PhD or something, this is a thing you will absolutely need to do, so she wanted us to learn it in undergrad.
Something else that one of my favorite anthropology professors in undergrad told us (I was a triple major in undergrad) was exactly what you say now. She was quite open about how to “read” a research article. She told us basically verbatim to read the abstract, intro, conclusion, and then some stuff from the middle. That’s generally enough to have an intelligent discussion about the topic.
Indeed these things from some of my undergrad professors were actually very helpful for grad school and just generally for my research that I do.
와..이 교수님 너무 멋지다..이렇게 하는 거였구나
I love you, Professor! This is life saving for students like me..
Law is absolutely fascinating but its also very difficult to absorb on one pass of any one paragraph. Although im confident that I have certain disabilities that make it more difficult, I would imagine others wouldn't need to read that paragraph and sentence 10 to 15 times followed by reflection on what I believe the language is saying. This im not sure of and it would be interesting to know if this is standard or if my struggles where more isolated.
Thank you for every single video you've posted!!!! They have helped so much in my journey of starting college so late in my 20's. I was nervous and quite frankly scared of the unknown and feeling so behind but learning this way makes it exciting!!! THANK YOU!!!
Decades ago,before tech, I studied to be a geologist. Maps and drawings abound. I found the easiest way to learn and memorize the geology of an area was to color in the maps and X-sections..
I'm so in love with those videos 🙈
Absolutely brilliant video especially about the textbooks. I so wish I had this advice when I was growing up.
I'm so thankful for your effort to making this video! I had several problem during my college bcs i can't understand+memorize the material
I think 'How To Read A Book' by Mortimer J. Adler is a really good book that tackles this topic. Nice video!
I'm in a technical course, and honestly our textbooks are unhelpful at best for 3/4 of topics covered.
first yr physics i wrote extensive notes.
we had the walker text book for physics.
i started to study for tests n exams from this text book
because it was the Best Text Book i ever read !!!!!!!!
to this day, i never once read those notes i wrote !
wow, holding back on droppin a thesis here (being concise is ~naht~ my forte.) but uhh, yeahh- just wanted to say that your input is so, SO invaluable dude! I definitely caught myself making a number of the mistakes you've mentioned in your playlist thus far, haha. I've noted the patterns and failures, tho I did try repeating said mistakes.. I thought if I just changed this or that, then X might work out, but nope ^__^ I've accepted that I just can't procrastinate and that cramming doesn't work for me. It just took me an entire semester :S
anyway, back to the playlist for me ^_^ ohh, and totally looking fwd to the following part of ur ethics video! I found it to be both interesting and amusing so definitely hoping that you see that one thru ^__^
It is really helpful. Thanks for your effort in making this video.
As an engineering major forced to take philosophy and literature, my strategy was read enough to make a couple points during each seminar.
If your points are well received use those as your jumping off point for the papers you have to write.
Great video lectures. Wish someone had shared this info with me when I was in High School 60 years ago. 😊
These videos are incredibly valuable, thank you.
Exceptional advice!!!
In my years in undergrad, I read at the beginning of the semester. But as the semester progressed, my term papers took up so much time that I could not do any of the readings.
How do you gauge the amount of time needed to do the reading ahead of class, especially if its a science text?
Do the reading as early as possible and re-read if you have time closer to the day?
Thank you for this video professor.
How much of this video do I need to watch 🤔
Brilliant, thanks for sharing 🌷
Let’s not underestimate how dry, esoteric and boring the readings can be. Especially in philosophy. If only more scholars were more thoughtful about *who* they should be writing to.
I’m not sure I agree completely. What kinds of texts / authors are your talking about?
Nice one professor.
Should reading be made compulsory for college students?!
Can you tell me about LLM courses. How to read through them?
“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time rationalize why you didn’t read the entire assigned text.”
- Immanuel Kant’s secret approach to grad school readings, probably.
which one did you like more? cam or ox?
Honestly, I did not strongly prefer one over the other. Enormously enjoyed my time at both. They are massively more similar than they are different. I definitely have opinions about the relative quality of various universities that I have attended and worked at, but between Oxford and Cambridge I don't have much.
@@profjeffreykaplan thanks sir.
There should be a reading material recommended, before watching this video.
Love this video! It's true that different types of courses require different reading strategies.
A book about history of swimming pools in USA...ooookayyyyhhhhhhhh
Yeah? Swimming pools are big social spaces and were segregated for the majority of U.S. history, and it's kind wild that they exist at all. It's not like a library where there's a financial incentive in the form of education, it's _literally_ just a public work for the sake of it.
you don't really write with your left hand backwards do you?
Leave it to a philosophy scholar to get through to me.
👍video....
Thankss❤
I guess it's way too country-oriented. I took a (mandatory) introductory sociology class, did 0 reading, got a 10 and nailed marx on the final.
I am not kidding. I did non, 0, nada reading.
I hate life. They gave like 3 articles and 2 books every lecture and none of it was relevant. Nothing. Sure i got a perfect score but why the fck is this made so badly that you can pass doing 0 reading. That shouldn't be allowed. Not in college.
I watched several of your videos... You really love to talk... To explain a simple thing you use so many words that is almost funny... But much of your explanations about people thinkings and behavior lack deep understanding of the human mind... You only see logical ideas and racional thinkings... You omitt feelings, emotions, ... People are racional and emotional... You only care the racional part and your ideas about people are incomplete and lacking understanding.... You are a bit childish.
Lol, I completely disagree with you, he communicates perfectly and is really thoughtful about everything he says, I don't want to be judgmental but from what you typed/how you typed it, I'm assuming English isn't your first language?? And your comment shows a bit of hypocrisy...we can talk it out, can you elaborate?
So with the textbook do we read the whole chapter or only into and conclusion like philosophy? @jeffreyKaplan