Originally Posted by
Lokasenna
An 800 page novel is rather a lot to cover in a tutorial, but then there was a module at my alma mater that had Clarissa as one of the novels on it, and which was to be discussed in a single tutorial. At around 1,600 pages, that seemed to me to be an exercise in stamina, if nothing else...
The other thing we get here, as well as students moaning about a lack of contact hours, is a few students moaning about having part-time teaching assistants rather than 'real' academics leading their tutorials. I think my students like me (I certainly get good feedback), but I know some of them get a little bit frustrated with some of the other TAs. I even heard of a group of students who had made a pact not to say anything in tutorials run by a TA as means of punishing them, and letting their displeasure show. Obviously, this is both a ridiculous and selfish course of action - but amazingly some (though only a very few) do take part in such daft things.