smanjali ([info]smanjali) wrote in [info]oberlin,
@ 2006-11-12 16:42:00
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john hobbs
hey everyone,
i'm planning on taking a 300-level class with john hobbs in the english dept next semester. it's contemporary british and irish fiction. i don't think he's taught it before, but has anybody taken classes with him? what's he like?

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[info]m_nystagmus
2006-11-13 12:50 am UTC (link)
Two words: incredibly boring. He's not bad, but I had a bastard of a time trying to stay up in that class (Yeats Joyce and Beckett).

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[info]r4bidw0mb4t
2006-11-13 01:41 am UTC (link)
yeah, I also took Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett, and I really didn't like him. I didn't think he was terribly boring, but he has a very clear idea in his head of what he thinks is right and what he thinks is wrong about a text, and you won't persuade him otherwise.

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[info]haleth_the_elf
2006-11-13 03:14 am UTC (link)
He's not great at facilitating discussion. He's not a bad professor, but unlike lots of courses, where the professor will inspire you to love the material regardless of how you initally felt, you really need to come into a Hobbs class with an interest in the course, if you want to get something out of it. He won't convert you.

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[info]bradsabastard
2006-11-13 05:19 pm UTC (link)
i thought he was occasionally open and occasionally interesting, but those were very good days.

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[info]ece_drihten
2006-11-13 10:27 pm UTC (link)
If you're going to take one of his classes, only do it if someone else is not teaching it.

He does not listen, I've found. If you disagree with him or his perspective on a text he'll write you off.

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(Anonymous)
2006-11-17 06:10 am UTC (link)
Don't do it.

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