Interviewing my Lecturer

Today I was pretty much in luck- I got to interview our lecturer Lucinda Strahan in a group activity! I would start off with a little background of Miss Lucinda and will be talking a little bit about the differences in the lecturing styles in Malaysia and Australia. This is for all those people who are guessing the age of our Professional Writing lecturer- she is 32 ! If I had guessed, it'd probably be 25, really. She has been teaching for about a year in RMIT, mostly doing part time tutoring in Melbourne University for the past seven years. She started off doing freelance writing for Art and Culture but decided to do some part time lecturing after finding out that she needs more interaction with people. She chose RMIT for her first full-time lecturing because in RMIT, the work was more hands on as compared to Melbourne University where they are more focused on the theory part.

I find that the lecturers over here in Australia, namely RMIT because I am studying there, are more personal when it comes to educating their students. So far, my classes in every tutorial has been really personal and I feel that there is enough interaction between lecturer and student as compared to when I was in Malaysia. Back home, things were a little different because the lecturers were more focused on teaching a big group rather than personally getting in touch with a student. There are still lecturers in Malaysia that actually do more and actually get out of their way to help students. They are a rare group of lecturers but they do exist and always helped me with my studying. As for Lucinda, getting personal and interacting with students has always been something she yearns for. She will be there when students face really personal problems such as a death of a family member, break ups, arguments with their other halves and many other problems.

When I asked her if there is any students who actually gave her a hard time, she said that she never felt that the problems that the students face were never an annoyance to her. She even stays back in RMIT during semester breaks to deal with problems students face and enrolement issues. Having Lucinda as my lecturer cum tutor will ease my stay in a foreign country and keeping up with my studies should not be a problem at all.