2. Contrast the friend who helps you with your
academic work (call these ‘academic
friendships’), and an ordinary pal. What
extra
– skills
– knowledge
– values
– virtues
does the former have to have?
4. • Does the ordinary friendship have
elements that the academically helpful
friendship might lack?
• If so, what?
5. • Is reciprocity an essential element in
academic friendship?
That is, can academic friendships be
one-sided, or do they only really work if
you are able to help each other?
6. • How durable do these academic
friendships have to be?
7. (For Aristotelians)
• Can academic friendships function as
utility relationships, or are good
academic friendships more like virtue
friendships ?
8. • How are academically useful
relationships formed?
9. • What conditions or activities would be
conducive to
a) Forming
and
b) Maintaining
academic friendships?
10. • Does the lack of classroom contact hours
(eight per week for Humanities students)
make it difficult to form friendships with
people in your class?
11. • Does living on campus make a difference
to forming and maintaining academic
friendships?
• Do social networking sites make a
difference?
