A lot of our classes are relatively small.

We like it that way.

It gives us an opportunity to work more

closely with students.

It gives us an opportunity actually to move, in some cases,

more rapidly through material and to have a better chance

to move in directions that the class decides to take,

rather than sticking rigidly to a syllabus.

We interact with our students frequently in the language that

they are studying when we see them in the halls and when we

see them on campus.

We also see them outside of the campus.

For example, the German table meets at a coffee house

downtown, and not only do students and faculty from the

university come and take part in that, but members of the

community do it, as well.

>> Student: We learn a lot about subject

matter in classes, but I've also learned a lot about working

with others in my classes.

You get a lot of talking to people, talking to your

professors all the time, that it becomes natural,

and I think that'll make me a lot less nervous for

dealing with people in the real world.

>> Stephen Canfield: What it comes down to is

what we've been talking about, and that is the idea

of interaction.

It's not just that students react when I do something,

or that I react when they do something, but that we do

interact, and there is an exchange between us,

so that we both gain something from what we are doing.

I always learn something different about the material

that I've taught for years by working with different

students each time.

And each time I get a different class I have a

different perspective.

Just this morning, I was sitting in class, and I asked them

a question, and when they gave me the answers that they did,

I said, "Wow, you are the only class that I've ever had

that did not say something else!"

[Laughs]

So, there was, it was a new experience that I'd never had

in the classroom before, and that's fantastic.

I hope they get the same kind of reaction.