uh oh.
being the very bored me, i scrolled thru my empty ivle happily..
ur ivle is NEVER empty when school starts..
and here i find... the course outline and requirements already filled in conscientiously by my upcoming lecturer for Mass Media and Culture
and it is s c a r y.

READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE YOU ENROL IN THIS MODULE. THE COURSE IS NOT SUITABLE FOR THE FOLLOWING PERSONS:
1. If you are a FIRST YEAR student, it is advisable that you wait till your second year to take this course. Past experience shows that first year students dont have the intellectual tools or maturity to read general second or third year modules. They have to compete with more advanced students in their second and third year (many of whom are single-majors in sociology), and as a result they feel lost in class, and do badly in grades. This course is offered every year, so be patient and wait till your 2nd or 3rd year to read the module.

2. If you are looking for HANDOUTS/NOTES, do not take this module. There are NO handouts in class, there are no power-point lecture notes for you to download, nothing for you to copy! Anyone taking this module has to listen and make your own notes. You may have to learn speed-dictation as lectures may be delivered at rapid fire.

3. If you are looking for "hip" aspects of mass media -- American Idol, Reality TV, talk shows, MTV, etc. -- you will be disappointed because this course DOES NOT cover these topics, which are likely to be found in the Popular Culture module. This course is mostly about news and politics.

4. If you are fishing for an EASY module, this is not it. The course syllabus changes every year, there is a new textbook, past year exam questions are no guide to the present, tutorials are demanding. Are you sure you want to go through all these ?

5. If you are looking for personal validation, this course is not the vehicle for that. In fact, you'll get the opposite: you will feel slighted or ignored as the lecturer cannot remember your name, very often doesnt give you eye contact, and doesnt have time to answer your email. Part of the reason is due to SIZE of the class: you cannot expect equal attention in a class of over 100 students. If you want to be remembered and loved by lecturers, you should take smaller classes of ten to thirty.

(c) When you take this module, be prepared to accept the demands placed by the lecturer. Past students in other modules taught by this lecturer characterized him as: sarcastic, opinionated (“he makes us feel that our way of seeing is wrong, because his way is correct and real”; “he is bent on imposing his opinions on his students”), strict (“he even scolds students for yawning”), critical (“he can be a bit intimidating and it makes going to his class a bit stressful”; “his tutorials often have a tense atmosphere”), disorganized (“tutorial very unstructured, tutor comes into class empty handed”), too politically liberal (“he is anti-govt”), technologically inept (“he refuses to use power point”), unresponsive (does not answer email inquiries).

sounds really intimidating enough huh?
this sociology class is going to be damn interesting
no notes for me to print, to photostate, im on my own...
and i'd better do my own notes conscientiously.
looking forward to THIS sociology class :)