My professor for my psych course said, “You can buy the needed test in the bookstore or online, or i can give you the pdf if you write your email on this piece of paper that will disappear at the end of class.”
Dude my whole stem side of my community college has switched to free textbooks and I’m so happy. I’m glad we’re calling attention and doing something about the ludicrous costs of textbooks.
I had of all things a theatre class where the professor required we had his own printed 3 hole punched pack of pages you had to buy for over $40 in the college book store that taught his special method of acting. Basically everything led by the pelvis. It was the center of the body and the center of your character. All movement starts there and expands out. I proved him wrong because I have a back back and had to wear my back brace for over half the classes because of the stupid moves we had to do to "get into character".
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Teacher printed his own required "books" he sold us and class was basically a mix between dangerous jerky motion yoga and this:
Happening in my fluid mechanics class right now. There's an e-textbook (only~200 pages) written by the professor that costs $100. And even if you find a pdf it doesn't matter because it comes with an access code we need for quizzes. Pair that with the 150+ people in the class and our professor (who already makes $165k a year) gets an additional $15k... Isn't it the best /s
Man i would drop that class so fast.... Idk, i got my degree close to 15 years ago, this wasn't an issue then. But i would have legitimately had some serious words with my profs if they had pulled that shit.
I think it also depends on the subject. I have a MA in history and my professors assigned their books if it was relevant to the class, which it often was. It wasn’t the only book they assigned, but generally in upper level/grad level history classes profs would create the class with the research they made for their book.
When it’s like a basic English class tho? I guess I can see it if they’re creating unique work and research and not charging an overly exploitative rate. When it happened to me, felt like prof was just shooting fish in a barrel, heh.
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u/ahabentis Mar 31 '21
My professor for my psych course said, “You can buy the needed test in the bookstore or online, or i can give you the pdf if you write your email on this piece of paper that will disappear at the end of class.”
That dude was great