Comments | fianaclare: Pins and Needles

fianaclare

Pins and Needles

Jan 12, 2008 11:43

[cross-posted to the professional blog]
I am very anxious about my Medieval English Literature course.

It was supposed to be a co-taught Medieval English Literature and History course. Beth the Historian, my counterpart in the History Department, and I were working together; we came up with some really great readings (you can look at the schedule) ( Read more... )

medieval literature, teaching, classes, tsu

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cross-listing and student counts hudebnik January 12 2008, 21:25:33 UTC

they schedule the course once in each discipline. I guess the justification is that the majors in each discipline can use the course to fulfill requirements without creating additional paperwork. But then, each course has to "make," i.e., enroll sufficient students to run. And the totals for one course don't count towards the total of the other(s).

My school used to have the same policy. There was widespread agreement that the system was stupid, but it wasn't feasible to fix it for IT reasons. Turns out the IT reason was an IT director who couldn't be bothered; we got a new IT director and it was fixed. At least for cross-listed courses with a single instructor; I'm not sure if the policy has been changed for team-taught courses like what you describe, for which there is a legitimate financial argument that there should be enough students in total to justify two faculty-courses ( ... )

Re: cross-listing and student counts fianaclare January 12 2008, 22:33:22 UTC

The obvious thing to try is to contact the two history students and get them to register for the English course, with a promise from the History department that they'll count it towards the History major. It doesn't give you the valuable team-teaching experience, but at least it gets the course to run.

Beth the Historian has contacted the students, but is doubtful the history department will allow the substitution for the majors.

Probably on 24 hours' notice again, like last semester.

Oh, you have that efficient system too? I'm going to redo my schedule on Monday, just to have a Medieval English Lit course on the web for job hunting purposes, if nothing else. But I will probably get 24 hours notice--or less--if I have to switch.

maccuswell January 13 2008, 02:12:03 UTC

the Black Death, sexuality

For God's sake I hope those two aren't on the same day.

fianaclare January 13 2008, 17:50:53 UTC

That would be way too kinky.

maccuswell January 13 2008, 19:16:50 UTC

Perhaps if it were presented in black & white...

osewalrus January 13 2008, 03:18:18 UTC

Good luck. It would be very disappointing to have the cancel after doing so much work for a fun class.