Hi, first post in student life, so cheers

For required reading (among other articles) financial markets prof links us to WSJ opinion piece trashing Obama, declares in no uncertain terms that material/info from the article will be on the exam:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-obam...ica-1440367410

cliffs: obama on a mission to maximally abuse executive power

How would you handle this? ofc I've had profs who had opinions and couldn't help themselves but to share them, but never had it go to this extreme. She basically just straight up said, "this is really, really important information and you can bet it will be on the exam *ding *ding write this down."

my strategy would be read it and remember it so that I can answer the questions on the exam

but there's only so many instances in life i'm willing to just take it in the ass, dkgojackets

Pick your battles. This seems like a silly thing to make an issue over. I would just learn the required material, even if I think it's stupid. Then I would avoid taking any of her classes in the future. If you guys do teacher evaluations at the end of the course I would note my concerns there. If not, I would maybe send an email to the department head if it really bothered me.

If you are taking a course so stupid and low level that it assigns WSJ articles as course material, you aren't learning anything worthwhile or useful anyway, and all you are doing is paying money to an institution to give you a degree, so you might as well play the dumbass game your unprofessional professor demands, because what do you care, your intellectual integrity disappeared when you signed up for a course on financial markets that assigns material from the WSJ.

I don't disagree, but I'm going to school for free and I'm in my last semester and it fits well in my sched

Just because a required reading is in the WSJ doesn't make it germane to a Fin Markets course. Continued unrelated course content should be related to the department chair if it goes beyond the course description and/or syllabus.

The department chair already knows that your professor is a charlatan and the last thing in the world he wants is to have to deal with her, so he will tell you it is being taken very seriously and do absolutely nothing.

I agree with the person that said pick your battles and put it on the teacher evaluation. Would you be as upset if the professor assigned an article that you agreed with despite it's apparent lack of anything to do with the subject of the course? That kind of puts it into perspective.

Learning to pick one's battles is a rather important life lesson/skill in my opinion.

Otherwise your house rennovations will end in divorce.

As someone who has had this same sort of experience more then once, I'd bring that teacher an apple and be glad you don't have the liberal crazies I had to "learn" from!!