"Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy" was eventually approved at George Mason, and I was able to teach it for the first time there this past spring. I'm currently teaching it at University of Pennsylvania, and it's going about as well as it could reasonably go as an online class during a pandemic.
It was the "Premodern Japanese Literature in an Asian Context" class that got shot down. That's a shame, but it doesn't matter. I'm no longer teaching at that awful school, thankfully.
Maybe this is a generalization that doesn't hold up to specific cases, but it's been my experience that private universities don't have the same seven circles of bureaucracy hell as public schools. At UPenn, I basically emailed the syllabus to the department chair and the department's specific admin assistant in charge of such things, and a course rubric was created within the week.
I would say something like "you get what you pay for," but the students at public schools actually pay a lot of money and don't get as much financial assistance smh.
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"Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy" was eventually approved at George Mason, and I was able to teach it for the first time there this past spring. I'm currently teaching it at University of Pennsylvania, and it's going about as well as it could reasonably go as an online class during a pandemic.
It was the "Premodern Japanese Literature in an Asian Context" class that got shot down. That's a shame, but it doesn't matter. I'm no longer teaching at that awful school, thankfully.
Maybe this is a generalization that doesn't hold up to specific cases, but it's been my experience that private universities don't have the same seven circles of bureaucracy hell as public schools. At UPenn, I basically emailed the syllabus to the department chair and the department's specific admin assistant in charge of such things, and a course rubric was created within the week.
I would say something like "you get what you pay for," but the students at public schools actually pay a lot of money and don't get as much financial assistance smh.