I just thought it was amusing, I guess. Three hours of lectures a week, theoretically about marine mammals, but I would say... 80% of the course content is about ideology, and "saving the planet"...
This is core. Can't avoid it. But it is insane to me that the Head of School, the person who supervises most of my courses, is so ideologically compromised that she essentially runs (STEM) courses like this as her personal ideological crusade...
Mid-30s woman, here. Looks exactly like you would expect. And she calls herself "old", in class, because of course she does...
That doesn't exactly reflect well on the University, I would have thought.
But anyway, I'm just there to get through this thing, and get my piece of paper, but it's still... Disappointing, I guess, that this is the quality of education I am dealing with.
I hope for your sake the textbook is good, because it doesn't sound like you're learning much in the class.
Just found out that we (briefly, for less than a week) had accidental access to all of last year's lecture recordings, which were delivered by a different lecturer...
Unfortunately, as soon as this bitch found that out, she removed all of that content, "because it was out of date".
In reality, it would be so we couldn't "get ahead"/get that extra information, and bank it, possibly even before Census date (i.e. you could somehow offload the lectures, and then drop the course, if you really wanted to), but I mean... Seems pretty petty to just take that away, because you can, simply to force everyone to only have access to this year's content, week by week, lol...
Like, if the old course information/content is there, and we want it, IMHO, it should be accessible to us. But of course some academics (like her) see it differently, lol...
Especially if you're not actually fuckin' teaching anything!
She doesn't want you learning anything but her propaganda. She's disgusting.
No textbook… 😔
They don’t really do textbooks, anymore…
No textbooks, no exams. Yeah, it’s pretty “Mickey Mouse”, tbh…