[HPforGrownups] Re: My problem with teaching Harry Potter

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 85041

Whenever I had uni classes we had to fill in anonymous reports at the end of
each term (or two terms if the class lasted that long) saying what we
thought of the course and how well the tutor knew the materila etc, does
your uni have anything like this? because that would be the best way to go
imo, I mean the class itself is obviously a lost cause already.

I studied German and History and as part of the German course we had to have
lectures (in English) on German history. Now the department could have made
ana rrangement with the history department to teach the course but instead
one of the German lecturers taught it (her only qualification to do so as
far as I could tell was that she was German). She started with Napoleon as
his laws and such had a lot to do with the way a German state was eventually
reformed. She boiled the causes of the Napoleonic Wars down to the concept
that Napoleon had some domestic problems (I think she meant riots and such
rather than his wife nagging him <g>) so he declared war on the rest of
Europe ... Which does rather ignore the fact that pretty much every time the
wars began it was the rest of Europe that declared war on France and seems
to gift Napoleon with the strategic sense of a gerbil. I gave up attending
at that point since if she was talking rubbish about topics I already
understood then she was going to confuse the heck out of me when we got to
the later stuff which I didn't know. I did turn up for the last course to
fill in the report though.

K