Best professors

[rubbermuffin]

Yep as an English student, there are some great lecturers I agree. I am a big fan of Mr Parry, and Chris Jones is always entertaining. There are some rubbish ones too though, but I won't mention any names.

[KateBush]

[s]rubbermuffin wrote on 21:33, 10th Jul 2004:
Yep as an English student, there are some great lecturers I agree. I am a big fan of Mr Parry, and Chris Jones is always entertaining. There are some rubbish ones too though, but I won't mention any names.

oh, go on!

[pobtastic]

Barbara Murray is shit

[factual]

kate, you are wrong.

i am studying lit and found the tutors and lecturers completely USELESS and even annoying. i ask for help and they quite simply throw the question back in my face; either that or they do not give a clear answer and leave you scratching your head. it makes me wonder what their jobs consist of if they refuse to answer your questions properly. i pay over 1000 for them to teach me and they are not doing their jobs. in fact i was thinking of filing a complaint to the university for the refusal to teach and help. they are nothing but a bunch of pissoffs who enjoy frustrating students and then at the end they get low marks because they never helped them. how am i supposed to do well if they will not advise me on anything? one of my courses i didnt even know what i was doing - i was completely lost and asked for guidance. what did i get for help? nothing but a bitchy responce telling me to do it myself. HOW AM I SUPPOSE TO DO WELL IF I AM STUCK ON SOMETHING AND CANNOT FIGURE IT OUT? WHY THE FUCK ARE THE LECTURERS THERE? IF THEY REFUSE TO HELP, WTF ARE THEY THERE FOR - EATING SCHOOL LUNCH AND SITTING ON THEIR ASSES ALL DAY???

caps are to stress the point. i have got low grades because of this, and whenever i needed some help or guidance they wouldnt give it to me. its like they assume too much and this is just not right. something has to be done about this before my degree gets screwed up completely.

[e]

Peter McKiernan in the management dep, is unbelieveable! his lectures are like stand up shows, and as mentioned Shane Bonetti is by far the best in the economics department.

[Andrew Cusack]

I found that the Rev. Dr. Ian Bradley is an excellent educator. I have theological disagreements with him, and his hijinks at the St. Mary's College Ball were frown-worthy, but he's a damn fine teacher, and great fun at dinner parties.

[hr]
http://www.andrewcusack.com

[nova]

[s]Unregisted User factual wrote on 17:21, 10th Jul 2004:
kate, you are wrong.

i am studying lit and found the tutors and lecturers completely USELESS and even annoying. i ask for help and they quite simply throw the question back in my face; either that or they do not give a clear answer and leave you scratching your head. it makes me wonder what their jobs consist of if they refuse to answer your questions properly. i pay over 1000 for them to teach me and they are not doing their jobs. in fact i was thinking of filing a complaint to the university for the refusal to teach and help. they are nothing but a bunch of pissoffs who enjoy frustrating students and then at the end they get low marks because they never helped them. how am i supposed to do well if they will not advise me on anything? one of my courses i didnt even know what i was doing - i was completely lost and asked for guidance. what did i get for help? nothing but a bitchy responce telling me to do it myself. HOW AM I SUPPOSE TO DO WELL IF I AM STUCK ON SOMETHING AND CANNOT FIGURE IT OUT? WHY THE FUCK ARE THE LECTURERS THERE? IF THEY REFUSE TO HELP, WTF ARE THEY THERE FOR - EATING SCHOOL LUNCH AND SITTING ON THEIR ASSES ALL DAY???




So let me get this straight. You regard a good university education as one where you pay money, and then the tutors sinmply hand over the answers without even asking you to think? Well, I am truly astounded. So that's where the university has been going wrong all these years...

There hasn't been much of a showing from the modern languages department yet so I thought I would add a few names:

Dr. Carson - (hard, but fair and with a realt concern for his students as well as a passion for his subject).

Dr. Milne - (an excellent and very affable tutor who ran some extremely interesting courses on literature that I might otherwise never have discovered).

Dr. Jackson - (as far as I am aware he is now retired. Scary as hell, but excellent nonetheless).

Dr. Martin - (genius)

Dr. Ashcroft - (crazy, but passionate).

Annette Zimmermann - (fantastic).

Just realised that this is a fairly big list, guess it just goes to show how highly i regard the modern languages department.


[hr]
"I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein and shot billiards with a midget until the rain stopped."

Tom Waits.

[KateBush]

That's a real shame that you feel so frustrated, factual. You don't say what year you're in, so I don't knw whether you're in honours or not. If you're sub-honours, maybe you could think about changing subject?

I have to say though, if you're looking for tutors to give you the answers, then you are the one at fault- they aren't meant to do that. They are meant to guide you, and send you off in the right direction, but especially with a subject like English, there *are* no right answers. It's for you to figure out yourself. That's what I find such a pleasure about English- the absolute freedom to explore my own avenues, that I have chosen.

Have you approached your year rep on the English Student Staff Consultative Committee about this? I'm a member, and can put forward your gripes next Semester (without mentioning any names--confidentiality assured). It's a very useful forum, and students are listened to. We speak very frankly and openly, no holds barred. so if there's a serious problem, I can sock it to 'em on your behalf:) Perhaps student support might be able to help, too?

Good luck, and feel free to drop me a line if you'd like me to put forward to the SSCC any problems for you.

[Midget]

What were Ian Bradley's "hijinks" that made you frown Mr Cusack?
What are hijinks?
And as a student surely frowning is a bit of dull thing to do?

[KateBush]

[s]pobtastic wrote on 23:11, 10th Jul 2004:
Barbara Murray is shit


NO SHE'S NOT

[tintin]

I think that "Mr Parry" has a large fan-base, especially amongst those students with alcoholic tendancies...he just gets funnier the more you drink!

I too will nominate Dr. Milne as a good tutor (or as the Americans would say, "professor"). She cooked us all dinner at her house after the course ended, which was a nice touch.

Also Dr. Tunstall and Mr. Armitage(Physics), Dr. Sneddon and Professor Lodge (French).

I'll stop now, as I obviously have way too much time on my hands waiting for a flight home...

[factual]

[s]KateBush wrote on 15:21, 11th Jul 2004:
That's a real shame that you feel so frustrated, factual. You don't say what year you're in, so I don't knw whether you're in honours or not.

sub-honours, hun.


[s]KateBush wrote on 15:21, 11th Jul 2004:
I have to say though, if you're looking for tutors to give you the answers, then you are the one at fault- they aren't meant to do that. They are meant to guide you, and send you off in the right direction..

thats exactly what i meant. i am not asking for answers because i know criticism does not involve finding an ultimate answer, but for guidance and giving me directions, so to speak. i need to know what i am doing and what i am looking for when reading a work. they refuse to help me on this (guiding, that is).



[s]KateBush wrote on 15:21, 11th Jul 2004:
Have you approached your year rep on the English Student Staff Consultative Committee about this? I'm a member, and can put forward your gripes next Semester (without mentioning any names--confidentiality assured). It's a very useful forum, and students are listened to. We speak very frankly and openly, no holds barred. so if there's a serious problem, I can sock it to 'em on your behalf:) Perhaps student support might be able to help, too?

i don't know who my rep for the English Student Staff Consultative Committee is. student support cannot help - but dave roberts can. i might speak to him about this. as for this 'forum', i would like more info on this. is there a site?


[s]KateBush wrote on 15:21, 11th Jul 2004:
Good luck, and feel free to drop me a line if you'd like me to put forward to the SSCC any problems for you.

thanks. not sure how to contact you..hopefully i might see you in the sinner chat sometime? :-/

thanks for your understanding.

[Hilly]

Obviously the academic staff cannot comprehend the sheer excellence of your reasoning factual. I mean in your tutorials, when you ask for toilet breaks five times, that's not only genius: that's something else. Oscar Wilde was once asked if he knew everything. He replied that he was not young enough. Yet with you factual your mind is so full of youthful genius that it seems to have evaded all the pollutions of the working world. Maybe you should try the nearby primary school for some answers to your sublimely inexplicable and profound questions: they will even put you in the 'special' group. Or alternatively, I know a few nannies that would probably look after you for that £1000 that you spend each year.

[SimplyTheBest]

Proffesor Bentley (Modern History)

Dr Will Fowler (Spanish)

[pobtastic]

NO SHE'S NOT

...yet all evidence points to her being shit - conclusion = SHE'S SHIT!!!

[KateBush]

[s]Unregisted User factual wrote on 18:20, 11th Jul 2004:
[s]KateBush wrote on 15:21, 11th Jul 2004:[i]
That's a real shame that you feel so frustrated, factual. You don't say what year you're in, so I don't knw whether you're in honours or not.

sub-honours, hun.


[s]KateBush wrote on 15:21, 11th Jul 2004:
I have to say though, if you're looking for tutors to give you the answers, then you are the one at fault- they aren't meant to do that. They are meant to guide you, and send you off in the right direction..

thats exactly what i meant. i am not asking for answers because i know criticism does not involve finding an ultimate answer, but for guidance and giving me directions, so to speak. i need to know what i am doing and what i am looking for when reading a work. they refuse to help me on this (guiding, that is).



[s]KateBush wrote on 15:21, 11th Jul 2004:
Have you approached your year rep on the English Student Staff Consultative Committee about this? I'm a member, and can put forward your gripes next Semester (without mentioning any names--confidentiality assured). It's a very useful forum, and students are listened to. We speak very frankly and openly, no holds barred. so if there's a serious problem, I can sock it to 'em on your behalf:) Perhaps student support might be able to help, too?

i don't know who my rep for the English Student Staff Consultative Committee is. student support cannot help - but dave roberts can. i might speak to him about this. as for this 'forum', i would like more info on this. is there a site?


[s]KateBush wrote on 15:21, 11th Jul 2004:
Good luck, and feel free to drop me a line if you'd like me to put forward to the SSCC any problems for you.

thanks. not sure how to contact you..hopefully i might see you in the sinner chat sometime? :-/

thanks for your understanding.
[/i]

Hi factual. Just click on my profile and email me that way if you want. And when I said forum, I meant a real, physical forum rather than cyber one. I do hope you get things sorted. English don't get it right all the time, but they try hard to.

[jrat19]

would anybody care to comment on some of the lecturers in the International relations department?

[garage red]

Certainly if you're coming to St Andrews and studying Maths I would definately say that:

For style: Dr Lars Olsen
For notes: Dr Graham Bell
For clarity of information: Prof Alan Hood

In addition I've had Dr Olsen as a tutor and he was without a shadow of a doubt the best tutor that I've ever had

[Rob Milsom]

[s]Unregisted User jrat19 wrote on 00:21, 19th Jul 2004:
would anybody care to comment on some of the lecturers in the International relations department?



A chance for a throwaway comment? Certainly..

Best lecturers

Andrea Teti - the only person who could ever make the study of constructivist theory in relation to the Middle East interesting and memorable (particularly relating it to Smurfs). Could remember who the villan was in Rocky VI, and not averse to lecturing on Castle Sands. Now sadly departed.

Magnus Ranstorp - frankly, for being Magnus Ranstorp, even if occasionally unlocatable without recourse to a homing device.

William Walker - because you needed to know about the Teller-Ulam Solution anyway, very authoritative and witty man - plus was always very consistent with providing overheads.

Actually, to be fair, in four years with the department, I really can't remember having a bad lecturer.

[KayBee]

Phill Winn - Psychology
Dr Riches - Soc Anth
The guy with the pony tail who was so inspirational I've forgotten his name - Computer Science