History Ext. Lectures at USyd today..? (1 Viewer)

[zaqwerty]

So, the History Ext. lectures at USyd. Did anyone go? What did you think?

Personally, I think the historiography one was alright for revision because I already knew everything he told us, the Post-Modernism one was awesome for a background to it all as I haven't learnt that aspect of Post-Modernism (although I would've liked it if it wasn't ALL the background to it), and then the JFK one was alright, but again, things I already knew.

(My favourite one was actually the Modern History one on the Home Front, I learnt a lot there that I didn't already know ... or maybe I'd just forgotten it all...)

 

[iknowmyonion]

i went to the ones on thursday and saturday.
my favourite of them all was Germany 1918-1933, and out of the saturday ones i like elizabeth I the best.
i don't know if anyone else did the ancient ones on saturday, but i didn't think they were that great, or maybe just the ones i went to?

 

[zaqwerty]

Well I don't do Ancient History, and I didn't talk to anyone who did, so I'm not sure about them.

By the way, you have an AWESOME username!

 

[xeuyrawp]

Who spoke?

 

[zaqwerty]

Who spoke?

To tell the truth, I don't remember.

 

[el gwapo]

For the extension ones?... it wasn't in the sheets they handed out.. in fact the po-mo guy just gave out an excerpt from a po-mo book

They were quite interesting, in my opinion. My classmate, however, pointed out that the post-modernism one failed to connect to the syllabus, but since the bloke was covering new ground for me, I didn't notice it. Our ext hist class hasn't really completely covered the historiography part, most of us had pretty mediocre scores in our essay on that topic. Being from a public school, I take it all in. So 50 bucks well spent. Braving the rain and trackwork on Saturday was quite worth it

Dishonorable mention- Pacific Conflict (an shambles, people kept leaving during the lecture, and the bloke spent 20 minutes talking about exam preparations which IMO is utterly useless)

 

[xeuyrawp]

Dishonorable mention- Pacific Conflict (an shambles, people kept leaving during the lecture, and the bloke spent 20 minutes talking about exam preparations which IMO is utterly useless)

Ouch. The walk-out. The worst of all the academic criticisms - on par to the comedic heckle.

Then again, one of the Egyptology lecturers at uni told our class that she was once doing a speech on her research (quite controversial) and a guy stood up in the middle of her speech and yelled at her about how her findings were all wrong. =/

 

[el gwapo]

Actually, I don't know what's worse, the walk out or the lecture with 4 people in it. There was about 10 in the Saturday UN lecture... the bloke said "I expected 30"...

 

[Jojo K]

Ne1 feeling kind and wanna share what new things they learnt at Uni one?