coldhearted scientist وداد

It is in fact as it should be that at your new school, the sophomore courses you taught two years ago are being taught as senior seminars.

Initially my horror was not about this, it was about the fact that the upper division courses I was suddenly teaching were courses I had taken from people like Genette and Todorov. I did not have a problem with imagining myself as faculty but I thought asking me to be Genette or Todorov already was a bit too much. In a few weeks I realized Genette and Todorov had been overqualified for these courses, they were using much less horsepower on them than they had.

However, I have not understood why sophomore level courses I taught in graduate school are senior seminars elsewhere until right now, leaving my senior seminar. If I had planned it exactly as I would have planned a sophomore level literature course in graduate school, it would have worked perfectly. That is why so many other people do this.

That is to say that in graduate school, if you are teaching the first two years at a good school, you are probably in fact teaching what you will need to teach at the next two levels in your faculty job, so you should relax, realize you have experience, and plan your courses in the way I have just described.

Axé.