What is your favorite course at Sinclair, and why?
Elissa Dawson, Music Major
“Probably voice lessons, because it has improved me as a singer. It’s a one-on-one interaction, it’s just me and [the instructor] in the piano room. He learned my voice, so he knows where to nitpick and where to make me do better, and where, you know, I can improve and how I can improve. We call it the ‘Mr. Greene magic touch.’ He just talks to you for about five seconds and you sound better, it’s freaky. . . He is mostly a vocal professor, and he also teaches a performance class, and he also directs a gospel choir.”
Cassandra Slusarczyk, Sonography Major
“Mine was medical terminology. I don’t remember my teacher’s name, but to me, it was the most helpful class I could actually see myself using. Like all these classes you take, you’re like, ‘I never need to know this or that,’ but it was the most interesting and the most useful to me. We mostly just took notes out of PowerPoint, but the teacher was very interactive, and always asked questions and made jokes and just made it a fun class to go to; especially since it was a two and a half hour class, nobody really wanted to go, so she made it fun.”
Nicole Witt, Vet Tech Major
“My favorite class right now is probably my communications class because I love to talk to people—and plus, my instructor is really funny, and I love humor, and so that’s probably another reason; and probably because it’s kind of easy compared to all my other classes I’m taking. Mrs. Nadine, she’s a really good instructor also, she clearly states what is due and she makes it easier for you to accomplish her class. She’s just a really, really good instructor. Plus, I also like all my classmates in my class. Because they’re just all welcoming, very social. . . Right now we’re talking about self-esteem and what the difference between self-concept and self-esteem is. And we just mostly talk about how to communicate with different people and body language, and how to read that body language.”
Camilla Black, Special Education Major
“I liked public speaking out of the ones I’ve taken so far. It was interesting—and like the fact that we got to pick our own topics for mostly all of it, that was interesting to put my own input and talk about stuff that I actually like cared about. There was online stuff, and in class stuff. We had to study a subject, or if we know a lot about it, and then present about it. We did slides for this one speech, and this one [other] speech was something you believe in, so it was kind of like personal, and then you do a speech about it. Sometimes there’s a time limit and stuff like that. And sometimes we had to write papers that went along with it.”
Dalton Tibbs, Electronics Engineering Major
“Electronics, Schematics, and Fabrication. For the first seven weeks, we’ve only been messing with Microsoft Office, and just toying around with Word and Excel and stuff. We don’t write papers, we just do a lot of stuff that’s all in the computer so far. So we just copy figures out of our book, like make them like a picture, but in Word. You have to know how to manipulate Word. [It’s with] Professor Johnson. [The class] is interesting I guess. It’s the first class I’ve taken that has anything to do with my major.”
Robert Campbell, Biology Major
“I like Biology. It’s a challenge and I enjoy it. It’s BIO 1171 [with] Dr. Heckendorn. It’s a combined class so our lab is actually incorporated into the class. So I guess really, we just kind of go over the biology textbook, speak about the basic things about biology, like what makes up life and the chemistry of life and so on. I guess we just do basic experiments that a lot of biologists do. So today for example, we did something with spectrophotometry—so we would make different solutions containing different amounts of a solute, and then we would run them through the spectrophotometer which would measure how much light was absorbed by what was held in the solution. There’s a lot of knowledge to be gained from it. It’s a nice challenge.”
Reporting and photos by Maggie Stacey
