/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3021342]

Have you ever encountered what you consider a "red flag" that gave you a bad feeling about a class' direction? Perhaps it was a particular book in the required reading, or a stated objective in the course description? Maybe a professor listed a book that he or she wrote to be mandatory reading?

[Anonymous No.3021441]

http://www.good.is/posts/twilight-is-now-required-reading-for-a-college-level-honors-english-class/

america

where twilight is part of your culture and pizza is a vegetable

[Anonymous No.3021456]

When the professor advertises his or her inability to succinctly express a thought by using longer & more verbose sentences than are needed to get the same thoughts across.

[Anonymous No.3021462]

>professor was black

[Anonymous No.3021463]

Intro to Ottoman Empire...

The Mongolians had children from birth raised on horses
Their mastery of horse archery was unseen at that period

[Anonymous No.3021486]

poetry class
first poem
teacher: "i had no idea what doppleganger meant."
UHOH, shiggo macco.

[Anonymous No.3021490]

>>3021463
Always so disappointing to get history professors who are bizarrely ignorant of periods and topics outside their purview. Then again history is one of the best fields for super savant professors who know fucking everything. When you do get one of those, it's a treat.

[Anonymous No.3021506]

>>3021441
>Ohio State
Well there's your problem

[Anonymous No.3021515]

>>3021486
Either that class ends up being very easy with the profs idiocy, or very difficult.

[Anonymous No.3021521]

Have you ever encountered what you consider a "red flag" that gave you a bad feeling about a class' direction?

yeah brah, mandatory attendance

how fuckin ghey is that shit

[Anonymous No.3021524]

>>3021521
As "ghey" as your grammar.

captcha decomposi umslya

[Anonymous No.3021531]

>mfw a professor suggests authorial intent matters

[Anonymous No.3021545]

>Professor is a woman

I've only ever been proved wrong once.

[Anonymous No.3021549]

>>3021545
>not waifufagging over female professors

Enjoy your shit university.

[Anonymous No.3021551]

>>3021549
I can want to bang them without enjoying their classes or teaching methods.

[Anonymous No.3021558]

>textbook has a CD/DVD/code in it
>you need it to do exams that get sent to the professor
>the professor is very obviously in the publisher's pocket
Textbook DRM should be a capital crime.

[Anonymous No.3021563]

>>3021558
agreed.

[Anonymous No.3021573]

>>3021563
i teach in a department where they've got one for the homework.

i would devise a work-around, but it makes it so that i don't have to grade homework, ever.

there is a technical work-around. i can replace their homework average with their grade on the final.

[Anonymous No.3022356]

Intro to Moral Philosophy:
3 hour lecture about assholes.

Literally, this guy wrote a book defining what he thinks an asshole is, and its importance in political theory. The class is based on his book.

This guy went to Harvard.
This is a required course.

[Anonymous No.3022370]

>>3021490
I have a prof right now who is an expert in his time period and every time I go to his office hours it's a fucking experience. Well spoken and just generally an all around savant. Considering taking more of his classes just to have him.

[Anonymous No.3022379]

>>3021342
>participation is 20% of grade

so what do you think?
>thirty seconds of silence
come on so what do you think! Don't make me call names.
>thirty more seconds of silence

Look I've deluded myself into believing that a manufactured "Socratic dialogue" is necessary and healthy for basic instruction so we are not going to discuss this reading until some undergrad idiot offers up his half-baked interpretation of it so I can use that as a starting point for actual lecture.

>uh...

very good., It's important for me to have this rich dialogue with the student body; you teach me as much as I teach you; after all these years as a professor I'm still learning, ha ha ha. What Hume actually meat was...

[Anonymous No.3022386]

>>3022379
>mfw I actually learn a lot from Socratic Dialogue, provided the Prof isn't a complete idiot who baby spoons us everything

[Anonymous No.3022421]

required reading for a Globalization class:

Korten - Corporations are fucking the world
Li - China will rape us
Vendana Shiva - Soil Not Oil

I'm not conservative by any means, but this prof is left as fuck.

Also, a philosophy professor who likes Ayer or apologizes for positivism.

[Anonymous No.3022432]

>there's a whole bunch of pretentious little shits around me and the worst of them all is twice as old as the rest and stands in front of us declaring his opinions on books with feigned authority

Sure sign that it's best to get the fuck out.

[Anonymous No.3022457]

>>3021545
My Profs are about half and half male and female. Both the best and the worst happen to be women, with the men tending to be more average. My university has some God-Tier lady professors though

[Anonymous No.3022462]

>>3022379
You must go to a fucking awful university. Not our fault all the students there are plebs.

[Anonymous No.3022488]

I remember being in a US politics class (Not an American btw) and we were discussing gun culture in America.

A student brought up how it's because Americans are more paranoid than other people and cited a scene from Bowling from Columbine where Michael Moore goes round Canada and finds a bunch of people who have left their front doors unlocked. And because Canada allows guns legally it must be because Americans are paranoid.

I then said that Michael Moore is a film director who fabricates things for dramatic effect as he did in Sicko when covering our own nation's healthcare (it is free as he said but he made it out as if our doctor's were Rolls Royce driving yuppies).

Furthemore, saying I have been to Canada and have a lot of family there that people don't leave their doors unlocked and that if you compare Canada's gun laws they are far more sensible than the US'.

The lecturer turns out was a Michael Moore fan.

[Anonymous No.3022519]

>>3022379

HOLY FUCKING COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUTH

[Anonymous No.3022525]

this reading list seems fishy...

[Anonymous No.3022536]

>>3022525

Is this high school?

What the fuck.

[Anonymous No.3022538]

>>3022525
>Hosseini

oh god please no

What kind of whackjob university/college do you go to?

[Anonymous No.3022553]

>>3022538

that's not even the most terrifying part

>no fear shakespeare

[Anonymous No.3022562]

>>3022525

>GRRM

I mean, I love the guy and his books, but having him on a college reading list?

[Anonymous No.3022565]

>>3022553

hunger games

[Anonymous No.3022570]

>>3022525

>reading well is really fundamental to success

[Anonymous No.3022573]

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[Anonymous No.3022579]

>>3022576
>books you have to buy
Are there no libraries where you live?

[Anonymous No.3022586]

>>3022579
He isn't aware of the joint venture scheme between academia and the book business.

"Hey guys you need this book and there's only one place to get it and it's 100 dollars" - every teacher ever

[Anonymous No.3022588]

>>3022576

>Instructor: David F. Wallace

[Anonymous No.3022590]

>>3022573

Footnotes on a syllabus.

[Anonymous No.3022600]

>>3022586
I'm sure you can get all of those books from almost any library.

[Anonymous No.3022608]

>>3022590

I already know who wrote that syllabus without looking at the instructor.

[Anonymous No.3022659]

The teacher was talking about a book he wrote and then... He started crying. Fo real

[Anonymous No.3022664]

Individuals and groups from diverse sub-cultures, ethnicities, histories, genders and generations make meaning in the context of significant spaces. These spaces can be private or public, idiosyncratic or monumental. This unit will give opportunity for students to investigate a range of specific private, public, contested and heritage-recognised sites. It will also introduce students to a range of practical and theoretical skills for reading the processes of meaning-making in such sites. Preceding from semester one of cultural studies, the approach will be inter-disciplinary and will combine individual responses to sites with guided reading from amongst history, semiotics, gender studies, architecture and technology.

- Deakin University Course Guide, ACS102 - Spaces of Desire: Doing Cultural Studies (B)