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Wait, there's a textbook?

Reddit r/Professors·u/Safe_Answer7213·about 1 month ago
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Wait, there's a textbook? Here is one from the other side of the classroom. I work in a STEM program at an R1. I recently got tenured and am branching out a bit in my research. I started partnering with some researchers in the Art History department to work on the use of AI for curation. To give myself some background in the field, I am taking a couple of Art History classes at the 400 level so that I can become familiar with how Art Historians think and approach problems ... but I digress. As the professor is lecturing and displaying images of various artworks for us to discuss, I pull out the textbook for the course and follow along, reading snippets as she is talking so that I can fill in some context. At about week 4 in the class a student approached me (none of them know I am a professor except for the professor teaching the class, who is my research partner). The student asked, "I see that you have been following along in a book that has the pictures she is using in class. That's pretty cool.…

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