In his course Foreign Cultures 76: Mass Culture in Nazi Germany, Rentschler also employs a number of visual aids to spice up his lectures.
"In some courses the lectures just rehash the reading. It seems that trying not to do that is a way of keeping me honest," he says.
Moravcsik also says that college is a time for students to understand how to be responsible to their professors and to themselves.
"Generally...I view the teaching environment as a professional one, in which students have responsibilities to themselves, each other, their section," he says.
Mallinckrodt Professor of Biology Fakhri A. Bazzaz says that whether students come or not, he always puts on his best performance.
"It doesn't matter to me whether students come or not," he says. "I can lecture enthusiastically no matter who is there."