English Professor Bruce Degi is teaching English in China through a year-long exchange program with Yunnan Radio & Television University.
Last semester English Professor Bruce Degi traveled to China to teach English. This much he was prepared to do, but he was “shocked” to learn he had been assigned 10 different required freshman English classes with about 60 students per class. This is quite different from Metro State, where the student-faculty ratio is 21 to 1.
“It balances itself out,” says Degi, who is part of a year-long exchange program established through a 2007 partnership between Metro State and Yunnan Radio & Television University (YNRTVU). The university is located in Denver’s sister city, Kunming.
“My task is to work with them on their spoken English. I do not grade anything. During most weeks I am teaching what [would equate] to six or more classes at Metro, but I don’t have office hours,” says Degi, who had not traveled to China prior to this trip and does not speak Chinese. “I also hold two hours of ‘English Corner,’ a British invention where students can practice their English with me outside of a formal classroom each week.”
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