I'm wondering if this is good, bad, or otherwise: taking more than one class with a professor.
There are a lot of professors at BU, but I in many instances I will probably take a second class from one I had before. For instance, EU law was taught by my contracts professor. Had I taken IP law I might have had my Civil Procedure professor again. (My friend from my 1L section had both this past semester. He called it his "retro semester.") I'm planning to take Tax with the professor I had corporations with, and I'll be in Trademark with my professor from Copyright and Rhetoric. If I also take Consumer Law it will be taught by my Evidence professor.
For the most part, this is just how things work out. EU law is only taught by the one professor, so it would necessitate having her again. In some instances there might be more than one professor who teaches the course, but only one section works into the schedule. Then there's the Tax course that I'm taking almost entirely because I like the professor. On the flip side, there are probably courses I'm avoiding because I didn't enjoy the previous class I took with the professor.
The concern would be that I'm limiting myself to the panopoly of perspectives offered by the faculty. On the other hand, if I know I learn well from certain professors, it would seem to make sense to try to take more of their courses.
On the other other hand, maybe this is a non-issue and not worth dwelling on. Still, it was an observation I thought worth raising.
Comments (3)
eh, it makes sense; the professor is the most important part of the course. So I find it's generally more worthwhile to take the class with the better professor over the class whose topic you find the most interesting.
Posted by Mike | May 7, 2005 11:49 AM
Posted on May 7, 2005 11:49
Fortunately for me there's been convergence. e.g., I really wanted to take EU law - luckily there was a great teacher. I haven't really had to make a hard choice about my classes (topic v. prof).
Posted by Cathy | May 7, 2005 11:54 AM
Posted on May 7, 2005 11:54
I've had one professor four semesters in a row now: contracts a, contracts b, legal process (think of it as applied jurisprudence), and jurisprudence. My primary motivation for taking legal process was that I really enjoyed contracts with this professor and wanted more. Of course then, from legal process, I fell in love with legal theory so I had to take jurisprudence. I'm debating taking advanced sales (yea, more contracts!) with the same prof. in the fall. My friends tease me that I've turned into a groupie; maybe so, but he is a great teacher. He never lecutures with notes and can always weave nearly any question right back into where he wants to go. Sharp.
Posted by Adam | May 19, 2005 7:53 PM
Posted on May 19, 2005 19:53