Alan Hausman
Prof. Hausman has spent much of his teaching career in large lecture halls with many hundreds of students, beginning with his very first class at Ohio State in 1964 when he arrived at a classroom which, to his amazement, was filled with over 800 freshmen in Introduction to Philosophy. Though he has never fully recovered, he believes he has learned valuable things about teaching such courses, including that they can be very successful. One major side benefit of large lecture courses is that Teaching Assistants gain valuable teaching experience and mentoring for their own careers, something all too often neglected in our system of awarding advanced degrees. Hausman finds this aspect of his teaching as rewarding as his experiences with undergraduates.