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...syllabus sounds promising, but the lectures often cannot live up to their billings. Certainly, Professor Coles' literary expertise is impressive and his timely anecdotes are entertaining. He is a fluent, engaging speaker, completely at ease talking about his favorite authors and their works. Problems arise, however, as soon as we discover the assumptions underlying his twice-weekly monologues...
Perhaps I should have known better. I should have been able to read the ethnocentric slant of the course in its syllabus: "...Still others whose work will be read or viewed have tried to understand not only how various 'different' people live, but to what ultimate...moral and religious or philosophical purpose, if any, they adhere...
...automatic machinery that will replace several workers. Vic charges that Robyn's scholarly concerns have no place on society's balance sheet and that the university's elitism violates her own populist ideals. Yet he soon starts turning up on campus, helping Robyn's faculty committee reorganize a syllabus and shyly thumbing a volume of Tennyson in one of her tutorials...
...course syllabus for "General Education 159: The Nuclear Age" looks pretty average at first glance--lectures, reading, the ususal...
...challenged and found no problem there. "Then there are the classes themselves. Other politicians come in, spend the first sessions on the political lessons they have learned in a lifetime, and then wake up to the horrible realization that there are another 30 hours to fill. Michael prepared his syllabus ahead of time, knew his cases, had done all the readings." Pacing a course offered little challenge to the man who never stayed up at night to cram. He opened up to discussion, becoming a very popular teacher...