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Mostly bad news: I had a strict schedule for what I was supposed to be getting done this week, and I've only 90% stuck to it (this means I have not done my civ-mil readings for today, nor have I finished reading L'amélanchier. Ugh. However, I've figured out how to mostly take classes I don't hate despite the fact that the poli sci departments
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Tarnopolsky's course does look really good, damn. Too bad I'm probably never taking the advanced level theory prereqs.
As for Tarnopolsky herself, well, I basically already told you everything I know. I guess I could add that some people might call her "dry," but...I dunno. She's just...an academic. A non-conventional one, too, apparently she spent some time working in some computer-sciency-thing before she realized that philosophy is what she really likes.
And she does try to engage students -- she had us read Machiavelli before Plato and Hobbes even though it fucked up the chronology because he's way more immediately interesting (well, he was when she was lecturing about him, maybe not so much when you're reading him out of context).
Méthodes d'analyse des textes littéraires. GAH, that's intimidating-sounding. But that would make you a very very credible applicant to those ( ... )
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