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***This professor is absolutely insane, please, even if this course is required, do not take this course. Take it somewhere else and transfer it in.***
The good news is that you don't have to worry about showing up to class because he doesn't show up anyway. The bad news is, you have no chance of getting an "A" in the course unless you want to join the debate team and become a social dweeb.
First off, we started this semester doing debates (per the original syllabus) and then halfway through the course, he handed out a brand new syllabus (no debates on this one) even though over half of the class had either already done their debate or done the work for it. His original syllabus said nothing about his ability to change it at any time, but he did. Which, since the syllabus is a contract for the course, technically breaks his end of the original agreement and makes the entire class completely pointless. Thank you, Glenn Prince for taking my money and wiping your ass with it.
Moving on, the tests are impossible--even if you go exactly by the syllabus. One of the questions asked for a diagram of topicality, which is something we had covered in depth, but not in diagram form. So, if you didn't draw dumb little boxes around the parts of topicality, you missed half the points. The entire time I'm answering this question, I'm staring at the word "diagram" and thinking WTF? And, after the exam, I found out that the rest of the class was thinking the exact same thing.
And oh yeah, if he hands out a schedule, saying that certain days there will be no class, don't count on it. He's not doing you a favor by any means, because on one of the days that he had originally decided to cancel class, he decided to have it anyway, and made that the day to cover the Tuilman Model, which was 30% of the mid-term exam. So, anyone who had already made plans for that day inevitably had to figure it out for themselves.
What's more, on a few of the days that he missed, other people from the debate world came in and graded the debates that were given that day--which is completely unfair to the people that had to give them infront of him. He's a much harder grader than the other people he had come in; in retrospect, he should have had them record the debates so that it would be fair for everyone.
Oh, yeah, and he thinks that the problem with education in the United States is that teacher's have "been idiots for way too long." That's a quote, wrote that one down. Oh, and Be-Verbs are stupid and no one should ever use them, apparently. Although, I'd like to see Glenn Prince try to write progressively without one.
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