This is hands down the worst class I've ever taken not just in college, but in my life. It might have been a good way to teach me how to write a proposal when I was nine. As a college student? Not so much.

A ridiculous amount of the content is focused on the "how to write" part of "how to write a proposal." For some reason, course content included discussion of the four types of sentences and why they are important to your writing, how to plan out long-term goals, and how to give peer feedback. Although the syllabus suggests that each week is focused on understanding a different aspect of your proposal, we wasted the majority of the time in class learning basic writing skills that I remember covering in fourth grade. Sadly, this class is required for BDIC majors, so all of this information is irrelevant if you are planning to join the program.

He was a lecturer, and he was terrible. He was weirdly strict about the structure of each section of the proposal and insisted that all writing should follow the thesis statement + three evidence paragraphs + conclusion structure, even for a two page description of your personal journey. He seemed completely unqualified to help with what is actually the important part of a proposal writing class (how to write the actual proposal). Instead he enforced unflinchingly rigid guidelines that made no sense in the context of the assignments. When I asked him for clarification on what he wanted to assignments to look like, he was extremely condescending and unhelpful.

There is not much advice to be given here. Hopefully the department figures out how to organize the content of this class better, or else this instructor realizes his job is to teach college students how to propose their own majors, not teach fifth graders what an essay is. If you are someone who enjoys writing, forget everything you know at the door. Pretend you don't know what a sentence is and let this guy teach you about it; you'll have a way easier time meeting his expectations.