Classroom 3733

This room is classroom 3373 in the School of Kinesiology inside of the CCRB, Central Campus Recreation Building. This building, up on the hill was constructed in 1976. I chose this building because of its vast usage throughout the university. Thousands of students come in and out of this building every week. Coming back to the classroom, this is a small classroom meant to fit about 20 students. This makes for a more intimate setting between the teacher and the students. Due to its size, the courses that are taught in this room are more specific than a general education course. They are classes geared toward kinesiology students, which is a small sector of the university. There is a whiteboard and a projector; both used to explain material taught in class. This makes sense because Kinesiology is the study of movement; specifically, human movement. Therefore, I can see the professors drawing diagrams of the human body on the white boards to explain how each movement occurs and the forces applied on the body and the earth when doing the specific movements. All of the tables are long and horizontal, which face a podium, where the teacher teaches, whom faces back at the students. The tables also increase with height, making sure that every individual in the classroom can see the teacher. I am assuming that this classroom calls for more of a lecture class, where the teacher is communicating information to the students, and each individual student communicates back to the teacher. I don’t think this classroom calls for a collaborative environment where the students interact with each other because if this were the case, I would think that there would be a more circular pattern that the seats would make. Finally, there is bright light that comes into the room, both from the windows that overlook a street and from artificial light that beams from the ceiling. I would assume that these classes call for a great amount of attention, where the material is difficult and needs to be learned by the teacher. The light reinforces that sharp attention needed. All of these assumptions may indeed be false, but overall this is what I perceived in this classroom.