I’d also have other people who use Akismet to double check for your comments too, because chances are you’re going straight into the spam box :’(

When I started my Events Management course at university, I was supposed to be doing Joint Honours Events with Media Applications. I took one look at the course content for the web design modules and changed to Single Honours. Whilst they’d got some idea of accessibility (text resizing and not using tables with some attempt at semantic coding), it was at least 3 years out of date (now 4 and it’s yet to be updated), and they were absolutely obsessed with using Flash including for navigation, headers and every single image.

On the plus side, I may be doing a one-off lecture (with the possibility of more for interested people) for my fellow Events students on basic web design. Although since this is aimed at people who think this is a high quality website, I’m not very hopeful.

When I started my Events Management course at university, I was supposed to be doing Joint Honours Events with Media Applications. I took one look at the course content for the web design modules and changed to Single Honours. Whilst they’d got some idea of accessibility (text resizing and not using tables with some attempt at semantic coding), it was at least 3 years out of date (now 4 and it’s yet to be updated), and they were absolutely obsessed with using Flash including for navigation, headers and every single image.

On the plus side, I’ll may be doing a one-off lecture (with the possibility of more for interested people) for my fellow Events students on basic web design. Although since this is aimed at people who think this is a high quality website, I’m not very hopeful.

What you fail to realize since I don’t explicitly mention this, is that I already work for a webdesign firm. My employers (and myself) realize that a degree isn’t always everything. I got the job there because of my will to learn on my own over the years, and because of the extensive knowledge I had compared to someone learning in a college major/minor.

What’s up your ass anyway? I pay for this class, so like Jem said, I’m free to bitch about whatever the fuck I want to. If I think the teacher is a fucking moron, I’ll rant on that. If I think the class is a fucking joke, I’m going to rant on that. I’m paying for a class I can’t get out of (or take any other way) so of course I’m going to suck it up (which if you read in my post, I said essentially said I’m sucking it up–not in the same words) regardless. However, it doesn’t mean that I’m going to sit back and not complain about it.

And about your “advice” to take him out to lunch. You’re kidding, right? I don’t want to know my webdesign professor at all. I could care less about him. It’s a measly online course I’m taking, and once it’s over, it’s over. I’ve already emailed him and bitched to him about the course needing to be updated, and the fact that our assignments aren’t teaching anything at all for the fact that they’re nearly completed by him, aside from adding a few characters or removing something.

Now, if he was anything like my graphic design teacher, perhaps I’d agree with that. It’d be worth it because unlike *some* teachers, he is a freelancer web designer/programmer. He knows the latest and greatest and understands my rants in class about the webdesign class. This other teacher is some old fart who would rather play around with QBASIC.

My reasoning for getting a degree, is simply because for some of the jobs I want to have, it’s required. I have the experience, but trust me when I say that it doesn’t mean shit to some companies. They still want that degree no matter what. Now THAT is why I’m going back to school. It’s not because I want a degree. I don’t want to spend $30,000+ on an education where I know almost 75% of the material being taught.

BTW, why would I switch to another department? It seems a bit odd to tell someone who wants that webdesign assocaites to switch. I mean, would it make sense for me to get an associates or bachelors in a field I don’t want to work in? Now, if you must know, I AM going for an associates in webdesign and a bachelors in programming. So essentially that would work out, but the programmer degree is a lot more updated, sans the few early courses.

Either way, your advice doesn’t really apply to me.