If you a mod­er­ate degree of IT pro­fi­ciency, this course will be wast­ing your time. On Wednes­day I get to attend a one hour tuto­r­ial on how to use a library data­base. Fur­ther, our delight­ful course co-ordinator had the audac­ity to pre­tend that the tuto­r­ial “is vital, not only for your team, but for your indi­vid­ual assessment”.

Way to insult the col­lec­tive intel­li­gence of the course’s par­tic­i­pants. Not that I have a par­tic­u­larly high regard for the required stan­dard of intel­li­gence to par­tic­i­pate in said course. Hint: if you want a uni degree with very lit­tle effort, do a Dig­i­tal Cul­tures major. The only prob­lem will be try­ing not to shud­der every time you see your­self in the mir­ror, because you will have buzz­words swarm­ing around you with­out end. Oh, yeah, and you have to live with the knowl­edge that your study is of absolutely per­sonal or (espe­cially) pro­fes­sional value what­so­ever, unless of course you like the poi­son so much you go back and start teach­ing it.

Yes, some hyper­bole might have been tossed about in the mak­ing of this blog post. It’s still a bloody use­less course (and, from what I can gather, major pro­gramme) that’s par­tic­u­larly good at insult­ing its par­tic­i­pants’ intelligence.

Our uni­ver­sity has a Learn­ing Cen­tre for those who strug­gle using basic ICT resources. I’m try­ing not to be too demean­ing about it, but, in all seri­ous­ness, who would sign up for a course about the freakin’ Inter­net with­out know­ing how to use a bloody library data­base? They taught those skills to kids when I was in pri­mary school. Yes, that’s 1990’s.

I so can’t wait to give course feed­back on this already.

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