If impressed with a professor in a course, consider asking him to take you on as an advisee.
That extent to which he was steeped in tradition can also be seen in another new book published by New Directions, "Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature".
At Southwest Texas State University, in San Marcos, Wayman Mullin, a criminal justice professor, reorganized a course about politically violent American groups like the Ku Klux Klan and right-wing militias, into a course on international terrorism.
Israelis are well-known to be averse to being perceived as suckers, in daily life and in diplomacy, so much so that one Israeli professor offers a course in "sucker studies" that analyzes this theme in society.
Because of an editing error, the Metro Matters column yesterday, about the removal of Rashid Khalidi, a Columbia University professor, from a course that advises New York City teachers on how to talk about the Middle East gave an incorrect title in some copies for Ari L. Goldman of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, who criticized the action against Professor Khalidi.
It is when the two words are combined, and attached to a department in a consultancy, or a professor's course, or a book chapter, or a series of publications, that the eyebrows start offering a spot of leading-edge scepticism (benchmarked to best scepticism practice).The first eyebrow-waggler is the attachment of these buzzwords to just one department, or chapter, or course.
I'm working on a doctorate, helping a professor put together a course on the literature of war.
I told the story to Patricia Cahill, an Emory University English professor who teaches a course called "Collecting Passions: Stories of Obsession".
"There has to be a distinction between talking to people, even for payment, and doing what they want you to do," said Robert Z. Lawrence, a professor who taught a course at Harvard with Mr. Summers this year.
As an associate professor, he taught a course on economic development at Georgetown University, and was frequently a guest lecturer on this topic at numerous institutions.
