Try English in university

>Try English in university.
>Syllabus is primarily concerned with promoting works which help establish the narrative instead of works of quality.
>30 seconds into the first lecture she starts shitting on trump.
>All of the principal works of study are written by women, a good deal of which are written by black women.
>White males get a short story here and there.

I feel vindicated.

On the first or second lecture she put a question on the power-point which read "What makes good writing?" Beside it were various suggestions such as "Form, punctuation, prose" etc.

That's like showing me a few bricks, a cement mixer and a ruler, and then asking me which of the three is the best house.

Is it like this everywhere?

>not taking philosophy
shiggy

>taking English
You gotta take niche courses

>things that never happened

Post your syllabus

‘On the Uses of a Liberal Education Parts I and II’ (Mark Edmundson and Earl Shorris); ‘Fail Better’ (Zadie Smith); 'In Praise of Empire' (James Connolly); ‘I Have a Dream’ (Martin Luther King, Jr); ‘Yes We Can’ (Barack Obama); ‘Shooting an Elephant’ (George Orwell); A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft); 'Ain't I A Woman' (Sojourner Truth).

Novel: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Short Stories: ‘The Sisters’ (James Joyce); ‘The Garden Party’ (Katherine Mansfield); ‘The Lady with the Dog’ (Anton Chekov); ‘The American Embassy’ (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie).

I don't believe this. Take a pic or screenshot.

Or you must go to a seriously shitty school

...

School in ranked between 350-400th in world university rankings.

Could be worse. I ain't gonna bother with a screenshot.

>ranked between 350-400th in world university rankings

you get what you deserve. shoulda gone to a decent school. anything outside top 100 is crap and even that is no guarantee of the quality of specific departments

>ain't gonna bother with a screenshot

How convenient. Now fuck off

That's typical of English 101 and 100 level English courses. The goal of the class isn't to study literature, the goal of the class is to make sure you can read something and write a paper on what you read. That's why teachers have such liberty in choosing the reading for the class. You should've taken a specific course, not just an English course.

Also did you really expect every single English course to adhere to the list of books we've ranked as good? Come on.

the garden party and the sisters were curriculum when I took lit a few years back.

they're not bad.

Everybody post a screen from lit syllabus at your current/former uni.

pic related university of oslo

It's Brit Lit, of course your syllabus is going to have God-tier literature. Too bad you aren't reading Swift or Locke.

Mine is almost identical. Danish btw

I didn't expect it to adhere to a list of books Veeky Forums regards as good.

What I did expect was works chosen due to their literary merits, not because they're agenda driven.

I love Joyce, but honestly I suspect he's on it solely because he's our greatest writer and as such it'd be completely retarded if he wasn't on it in some shape or form.

Read Althusser's 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses'.

Somehow I have a feeling you aren't too thrilled with Marxist writers, though, and this is a thinly veiled 'lol niggers and women sucks haha'-thread

Althusser is god tier.

I used his theory on interpellation a lot in my MA thesis.

>Althusser

Disregard all 20th century French hacks.

fuck off, saussure and althusser are legit.

I have very little, if any, regard for the writer.

I also don't investigate the author because I don't want my perceptions of the book contaminated. I'll give your recommendation a look.

It isn't just the black female writers I've issue with, "Shooting an Elephant" is terrible. Out of all the short stories which could be picked she chose that one, just so she could go on a twenty minute rant about how colonialism is bad.

We're still waiting for that screenshot.

You're full of shit.

Also, it's possible to read post colonial works without moralizing

>ranked between 350-400th in world university rankings

My uni is in the 1700s. Kek

Really? It's a meaningless position if it isn't a moral one.

So far the reading curriculum for my writing class has consisted of a massive amount of David Foster Wallace stories and stuff by Lena Dunham.

>lena dunham

WHAT?

What fucking uni is this?

University of Maine so don't expect too much

The assignment was based around personal narratives so we're reading Shipping Out and one of her essays.

>David Foster Wallace

WHAT?

What fucking uni is this?

Even so

I hope you appreciate how many porn tabs I closed.

>not leaving them open and sharing that shit

What's the class called?

Did you bring up how she molested her sister by placing pebbles in her vagina?

>This Is Water

EN101 - Prose & Fiction

IRELAND YES

Why are you reading Chekhov if it's the course on English, not Literature in general?
Though he must be second-most-worthy writer of those listed there.

Gawain and the Green Knight is one of my favourite poems, hope you enjoy studying it user

It's been years since I took brit lit, the curriculum was slightly different then. It included great expectations in place of mrs dalloway.