Disclaimer: My linguistics lecturer is enthusiastic about her work, and goes to a lot of trouble to explain new concepts and help her students. That's wonderfully refreshing in a teacher.
But we're a lecture behind, and all of our marks come from worksheets based on the lecture notes published on the internet which aren't necessarily followed in the lectures themselves anyway.
The tutorials are spent going over the worksheets that we tried to fill in the previous week. That's all.
Does this sound as disorganised to everyone else as it does to me? We're basically trying to teach ourselves the material from internet sources before each class, and just spend the classes telling each other our answers. It's working so far, but that's mostly because we're still working through what nouns, adjectives, and verbs are.
The tutor today told me that my analysis was too advanced for the current work, and that I should stick to the basic rules for now. Why give me a poem to analyse if you don't want me to analyse it as a poem? The structure is clearly different from regular prose. Will I have to relearn this later?
I know I wasn't going to use this blog to whine, but surely there's a better way to run this course. Am I being ridiculous? Are my expectations not what they should have been?
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