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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
What classes are you taking this semester?
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"Normative Inquiry in Education" and "Contemporary Issues in Human Development." The first is a sort of ethics/philosophy class, whereas the second is more about the psychology of learning.
Last night I bought my books. Despite owning a copy of one of the texts, and being able to download two required books from MR, the bill came to over $160.
And that was picking used books at 17 cents and the like whenever possible.
Hopefully we'll actually
read these books, and discuss them in class. Last semester we had to buy a bunch of books for a class taught by the same professor who is teaching the ethics class this semester, and we never looked at most of them. It turned out she wanted us to read them on our own time, possibly to use them in our final project. Not that they were bad books, and I may use them for something someday, but I'd rather have such books labeled as "recommended" so I can decide if I can afford them (or need them) or not.
Then again, this is the same professor who resists telling her students about the required texts in advance, wanting us to all go to the local textbook store to "support" them. I'm all in favor of supporting local businesses when they provide a valuable service, but I'm starting to think that the days of textbook stores in college towns are coming to an end, and rightly so.