Manage Appeals
Petition Type: New
ID: 5488
Submitted: March 28, 2019 at 1:28:07 AM
First Name: Xueying
Last Name: Zhang
Student Number: 20091473
Email: 17xz50@queensu.ca
Degree Program: BCH
Plan: COMA
Level of Study: 1
Petition Categories
Petition Categories: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Code: GNDS 125
Term: Winter
Year: 2019
Petition Category: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Petition Letter
Petition Letter: Dear instructor,
I am writing this letter to send a presumptuous request, to claim the reasons for dropping the course - GNDS-125.
Before I took this course, I was very interesting in reading the article about the feminism, and that is the reason why i want to earn a place in this faculty. I was quite curious about what this course talked about and want to study it. When I was in my high school, I had read lots of books about gender study, especially the books written by a Chinese author, Yinhe Li. I found gender study as an amazing and interesting courses to study. The discussion about the differences between women and men in many different aspects lead me to a completely different world. Liking some attitudes mentioned by Yinhe Li in her book, women have a lower position in sex which is due to unchangeable physical characteristic. Yinhe, Li is a talented and experienced scholar has deep exploration on the field of gender study and also other arts field, like sociology. She has become a great star which I want to follow and become the power pushing me to learn and understand what this field focus on. She is the stimulation for me to choose this course. Thus, I decided to choose this course when I enter to my university at that time. For the first half of my first year, I did not choose this course because there is no seat left when I see Solus course list. But in the second half year, I choose this course without hesitation.
At the start of attending this course, I found there is an intangible power which catch me to explore and understand the gender differences. Professor starts to talk about how many genders exist in the real world and different theories about the opposite attitudes scientists hold toward gender. The reasons for women fall in love a men, and even mixed with biology knowledge to explains the intrinsic characteristic between different genders. The reasons for the homosexuality stimulate me to explore deeper and deeper of this course. Soon, I embrace my first quiz. I completed my first quiz filled with confidence.
However, the result of this quiz can be saying as a mess. I receive F in the first quiz. I am quite curious and sad, so I write an e-mail to TA to know why I get such low score. TA replies my e-mail: I misunderstand what the question ask about so I did not answer the question. Therefore, the score for this quiz cannot be modified. I feel quite low since the first quiz occupies about 10 percent of the whole course point. But maybe,I have choice in short paper, midterm, second quiz, and final paper. I did not drop the course at that time. Not waiting for a long for a long time, I was facing the due to hand in the reel out short paper. I choose one of the movie meticulously, and then I wrote this short paper about indigiqueer. After revising the paper for several times, I hand in it. I feel quite stressed and nervous because I am not sure whether I can get a great score. As a foreigner, I did not have a good English writing skills and I only choose few course which need me to practice writing. I am not sure the text I write about contains the content I want to say and explain about, or maybe I did not explain my reasons clearly and precisely. Around March 8th, the point of the short paper has been posted - I have got D-¿ I feel powerless when I know it, and there is no impetus pushing me to continue studying this course. It seems there is a large and fierce monster want to eat me without remains. I have no hope in this course, but the last day to drop this course has passed¿
I choose this course because I have strong interests toward this course at the beginning, and I thought this course may become major. However, at this time, I feel I have no opportunity to enter this major because of lack of ability to write good-quality essay and to get a higher score in quiz.
I think one possible solution is to choose another suitable major to study on. For example, according to the score I achieve in the 2018 Fall term. I think computing, probably, is much more suitable for me. I think it is better for me to learn computing instead of arts because I suit coding and number more than text. As the final exam come, I want to spend more time and energy to explore computing field. There are lots of course contents waiting for me to review and sort out,
These reasons enable me to drop this course.
I am writing this letter to send a presumptuous request, to claim the reasons for dropping the course - GNDS-125.
Before I took this course, I was very interesting in reading the article about the feminism, and that is the reason why i want to earn a place in this faculty. I was quite curious about what this course talked about and want to study it. When I was in my high school, I had read lots of books about gender study, especially the books written by a Chinese author, Yinhe Li. I found gender study as an amazing and interesting courses to study. The discussion about the differences between women and men in many different aspects lead me to a completely different world. Liking some attitudes mentioned by Yinhe Li in her book, women have a lower position in sex which is due to unchangeable physical characteristic. Yinhe, Li is a talented and experienced scholar has deep exploration on the field of gender study and also other arts field, like sociology. She has become a great star which I want to follow and become the power pushing me to learn and understand what this field focus on. She is the stimulation for me to choose this course. Thus, I decided to choose this course when I enter to my university at that time. For the first half of my first year, I did not choose this course because there is no seat left when I see Solus course list. But in the second half year, I choose this course without hesitation.
At the start of attending this course, I found there is an intangible power which catch me to explore and understand the gender differences. Professor starts to talk about how many genders exist in the real world and different theories about the opposite attitudes scientists hold toward gender. The reasons for women fall in love a men, and even mixed with biology knowledge to explains the intrinsic characteristic between different genders. The reasons for the homosexuality stimulate me to explore deeper and deeper of this course. Soon, I embrace my first quiz. I completed my first quiz filled with confidence.
However, the result of this quiz can be saying as a mess. I receive F in the first quiz. I am quite curious and sad, so I write an e-mail to TA to know why I get such low score. TA replies my e-mail: I misunderstand what the question ask about so I did not answer the question. Therefore, the score for this quiz cannot be modified. I feel quite low since the first quiz occupies about 10 percent of the whole course point. But maybe,I have choice in short paper, midterm, second quiz, and final paper. I did not drop the course at that time. Not waiting for a long for a long time, I was facing the due to hand in the reel out short paper. I choose one of the movie meticulously, and then I wrote this short paper about indigiqueer. After revising the paper for several times, I hand in it. I feel quite stressed and nervous because I am not sure whether I can get a great score. As a foreigner, I did not have a good English writing skills and I only choose few course which need me to practice writing. I am not sure the text I write about contains the content I want to say and explain about, or maybe I did not explain my reasons clearly and precisely. Around March 8th, the point of the short paper has been posted - I have got D-¿ I feel powerless when I know it, and there is no impetus pushing me to continue studying this course. It seems there is a large and fierce monster want to eat me without remains. I have no hope in this course, but the last day to drop this course has passed¿
I choose this course because I have strong interests toward this course at the beginning, and I thought this course may become major. However, at this time, I feel I have no opportunity to enter this major because of lack of ability to write good-quality essay and to get a higher score in quiz.
I think one possible solution is to choose another suitable major to study on. For example, according to the score I achieve in the 2018 Fall term. I think computing, probably, is much more suitable for me. I think it is better for me to learn computing instead of arts because I suit coding and number more than text. As the final exam come, I want to spend more time and energy to explore computing field. There are lots of course contents waiting for me to review and sort out,
These reasons enable me to drop this course.
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