Graduation requirements. Class ranking. GPA boosters. Midterms. Is university just a system we have to “game” through? Are we all just robots passing through the motion for four years, so that we can get a piece of paper at the end of it? Undergraduate students in North America have been frequently criticised for lacking in critical thinking skill. But is their inability to do so a by-product of a rigid system or are they just feeding into a system that expects them to be “robotic”?

In this episode of in[Tuition], Laila and Flint sat down with UBC professors Dr. Neil Armitage, Dept. of Sociology, and Dr. Jenny Peterson, Dept. of Political Science, to discuss the state of critical thinking skill among university students and how can they be engaged creative learners while “gaming” through the system we call university.