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sub_dividedEnglish 371: English Literature 1600-1830
PROS
• Syllabus says it's stuff I should probably be familar with, but would never in a million years read on my own (HELLO MILTON I HATE YOU).
• taught by Professor Ralph Williams.
CONS
• taught by Professor Ralph Williams[1]
• "That one's a bit of a brick. You are going to choke on it. But I find that those students with superior intellectual faculties often learn to appreciate its intricacies."
• meets at 9:00am
• 9/10 classmates are female
• eight novels in seven weeks. eight difficult because they are Important novels in seven weeks.
History 325: British History 1901-1939
PROS
• one of my favorite time periods!
• started the reading today and I will probably finish on my own even if I don't take the class, that's how much I love it.
CONS
• professor has a high, near-hysterical choked-off laugh that she uses to indicte she has said something clever
• focuses only on those subjects of the British commonwealth who live in England, Ireland, Scotland, or Wales. And that only within a twenty year time period.
• 9/10 classmates are male
• said this already, but the focus of this class is really narrow. Like how many pounds of butter the average family of six buys in a Manchester vs a London slum narrow.
So.
[Poll #721732]
[1] Professor Ralph Williams, Resident Genius. Speaks speaks a dozen languages (two of them imaginary), likes to pace and rant, writes his syllabus like poetry ("Engaged reading; consistant presence in class (without which, no grade); two essays, perhaps a midterm, surely a final"), has an accent I'm pretty sure he invented himself. Visibly enthusiastic about the literature he teaches, and it's a contagious enthusiasm.
HOWEVER. His imaginary accent is whiny and drawn-out, he speaks with unnatural levels pitch variation, he likes rhetorical questions ("late papers will not be graded, does everyone understannnnnnnnd, is that finnnnnne, Yay Nay?, and as for office houuuuuurs..."), and (worst of all) he's subject to frequent transports to mystical bliss. No really. He loves iterature so much that it transports him to another plane of existance in the middle of his lectures, during which he speaks in foreign tongues (mostly Italian).
Basically you either love him or you hate him, and though I'm sure I could learn to love him my first reaction is to hate him.
***
Sorry for all the scholastics lately, will try to make up for it with completely non-academic fanfic.
PROS
• Syllabus says it's stuff I should probably be familar with, but would never in a million years read on my own (HELLO MILTON I HATE YOU).
• taught by Professor Ralph Williams.
CONS
• taught by Professor Ralph Williams[1]
• "That one's a bit of a brick. You are going to choke on it. But I find that those students with superior intellectual faculties often learn to appreciate its intricacies."
• meets at 9:00am
• 9/10 classmates are female
• eight novels in seven weeks. eight difficult because they are Important novels in seven weeks.
History 325: British History 1901-1939
PROS
• one of my favorite time periods!
• started the reading today and I will probably finish on my own even if I don't take the class, that's how much I love it.
CONS
• professor has a high, near-hysterical choked-off laugh that she uses to indicte she has said something clever
• focuses only on those subjects of the British commonwealth who live in England, Ireland, Scotland, or Wales. And that only within a twenty year time period.
• 9/10 classmates are male
• said this already, but the focus of this class is really narrow. Like how many pounds of butter the average family of six buys in a Manchester vs a London slum narrow.
So.
[Poll #721732]
[1] Professor Ralph Williams, Resident Genius. Speaks speaks a dozen languages (two of them imaginary), likes to pace and rant, writes his syllabus like poetry ("Engaged reading; consistant presence in class (without which, no grade); two essays, perhaps a midterm, surely a final"), has an accent I'm pretty sure he invented himself. Visibly enthusiastic about the literature he teaches, and it's a contagious enthusiasm.
HOWEVER. His imaginary accent is whiny and drawn-out, he speaks with unnatural levels pitch variation, he likes rhetorical questions ("late papers will not be graded, does everyone understannnnnnnnd, is that finnnnnne, Yay Nay?, and as for office houuuuuurs..."), and (worst of all) he's subject to frequent transports to mystical bliss. No really. He loves iterature so much that it transports him to another plane of existance in the middle of his lectures, during which he speaks in foreign tongues (mostly Italian).
Basically you either love him or you hate him, and though I'm sure I could learn to love him my first reaction is to hate him.
***
Sorry for all the scholastics lately, will try to make up for it with completely non-academic fanfic.