*puts on giving-advice hat, because, you know, can't help self*
I'm going to assume you took notes during class so you have a fairly decent record of what went on roughly when.
I absolutely would go to the department chair to discuss this. Even barring all the immense inappropriateness of quashing opposing viewpoints (in any class; in one aimed at looking at them, good god), I think it's entirely fair to go in and say, look, here is what I expected to see, and here is what I saw, and here is my life experience on which I was basing my assumptions, and I'm not sure what to think about that. Worst case, they shoo you aside and say this is how he chose to teach it, and you shrug and go away.
And as to doing a bad job--well, if he doesn't get nailed for it now, one of two things happens. He'll get nailed for it later (in which case, what does it matter if it's you that goes over his head), or he won't and he'll keep teaching this way, having received no corrective feedback in the matter, and the next 30 years of students will have to tolerate it, too. I don't see that as a significantly better outcome for anyone, really.
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Date: 2004-06-08 01:25 pm (UTC)I'm going to assume you took notes during class so you have a fairly decent record of what went on roughly when.
I absolutely would go to the department chair to discuss this. Even barring all the immense inappropriateness of quashing opposing viewpoints (in any class; in one aimed at looking at them, good god), I think it's entirely fair to go in and say, look, here is what I expected to see, and here is what I saw, and here is my life experience on which I was basing my assumptions, and I'm not sure what to think about that. Worst case, they shoo you aside and say this is how he chose to teach it, and you shrug and go away.
And as to doing a bad job--well, if he doesn't get nailed for it now, one of two things happens. He'll get nailed for it later (in which case, what does it matter if it's you that goes over his head), or he won't and he'll keep teaching this way, having received no corrective feedback in the matter, and the next 30 years of students will have to tolerate it, too. I don't see that as a significantly better outcome for anyone, really.
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