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How can I deal with this teacher who's being difficult?
Hello, so at my college there's the option to create your own degree by taking classes that correlate with your own interests and making it into a degree. Of course this is all subject to approval and a presentation to a board that they can decline or approve.
Well I'm a student who's currently majoring in healthcare admin but I want to combine that with law classes into a kind of healthcare law degree because that's what I want to become (a healthcare lawyer).
In theory this should work out fine because my school has enough law related classes for their pre-law minor that combined with my current HCA classes I would have enough to fulfill the requirements for the create your own degree program.
I even went over it today with my advisor and she thought it was a good idea and helped me set up my schedule for the next two semesters to fulfill the needed requirements.
The enters the advisor for pre-law and his assistant. I don't know why but all the sudden they're against me doing this and keep saying no but they won't give me a reason and I'm getting very frustrated because I feel like they don't even have a reason.
They keep saying "We don't have a law major here or law classes so no you can't make a self designed law degree." Well this sounds silly to me because nobody ever said the classes had to be associated with a major. That's the whole reason it's a create your own degree - so you can make it a major! As far as the law classes go, that's ridiculous too because they DO HAVE LAW CLASSES! They're in the pre-law minor which I've already looked up. I also looked up whether the classes need to be from a current major and it doesn't state that anywhere so I told them that. Also somebody else already self designed their own major for Art Therapy and neither of those are a major at my school so I don't know what the big deal is with this guy and his assistant.
Instead of considering what I had stated and meeting up with me to discuss it in person like I asked twice (correspondence with him had been through email) he refused to unless the lady in charge of the self designed major program was meeting with us too. To me this is insane because he won't just talk to me and I'm getting extremely frustrated. I feel like he just doesn't want anybody to interfere with his pre-law minor.
How can I handle this without sabotaging the entire proposal?
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I fully believe in the fact that since you are paying them to supply a product or service to you they need to satisfy you or explain to your satisfaction why they cannot do so. This is the attitude you must take and if needed so state to them that they work for you and they must provide a satisfactory answer and explain why one student can and you can't.
If they/he still refuses your next step is to the Dean of students and if need be you adopt the same attitude. After that it is the college president.
Too many times those in charge of the school look at the students as children and treat you as such. The fact of the matter is you are not children you are young adults old enough to serve in the military. If you are old enough to serve in the military and defend their liberties then you are old enough to be treated as adults. Which means to be treated as they would want to be treated.
If you feel it is needed to be said so say it. For the world of academia does not spin as the rest of the world.
If all else fail have your parents help you.
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