<p>Hello everybody. I have often heard that in college, it's a good idea to study with a group. It's obvious how one would go about doing this in math or sciences courses (discussing problem sets) but what about liberal arts, specifically political science and history courses? How does one study politics in a group? Just go over facts? Share ideas? Please help me out. Thanks.</p>
<p>With English, I would think it would be involving like what you thought about it...kind of like a book club</p>
<p>With History, I would think it'd be over the facts</p>
<p>Personally, I feel that group studying is detrimental more than helpful. I always end up talking and not focusing on the issue at hand instead of actually studying. When I get more than 1 other person around, it pretty much just turns into a "so what'd you do this weekend?"-fest. </p>
<p>But anyway, you'd pretty much do whatever you'd do alone, just out loud, so others can chip in. Or you can quiz each on facts (ie what year did Napoleon take over France? etc). I don't know how much you can do in English, unless it's a literature class and you're reading alot of books, and then you can talk about them as you read, I guess. I haven't taken Lit yet so I don't know. For English comp though, there wasn't really a need to get together with other people because all we were doing was researching stuff for papers when we were outside of class. That's easier done by yourself, because YOU know what YOU are looking for.</p>