- 24 Disc-CD Set
- 48 Lectures, 30 Minutes Each
- Course Guidebooks Included
Product Description
Regularly $359.95 from The Teaching Company. The years 17601800 rocked the Western world.
These were the years when colonists on the eastern fringes of a continent converted Enlightenment thought first into action, then into government. Astonishing the world leaders of the day, they defied and broke away from their mother country, and then fashioned a republic capable of sustaining itself generation after generation.
Why this happened and how the colonists did it i… More >>
Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution – CD – The Teaching Company
#1 by Honest John on June 25th, 2010
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I’ve bought many courses from the Teaching Company. “Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution” has very informative content and insightful viewpoints, but this lecture course is twice as long as it should be. The professor blows lots of excess wind reading too much of what he’s already told you. 48 lectures could have been far more effective if it was done in 24 lectures. The professor talks very fast and insists on reading lots of historical documents at rapid speed with poor diction and intonation. Then he tells you over and over again what he just read to reinforce his points like his audience can’t get it. Okay, we get the point professor…
Consequently, I was dreading each new episode after lecture 24 because I knew he would read and repeat everything over and over again. I toughed my way through the entire lecture series to prove to myself that I learned all that was there and got my money’s worth, but that’s no way to “enjoy” the lectures.
The Teaching Company sends out lots of catalogues and asks for feedback from customers. I spent my time sending them a well-thought email suggesting they permit customers to discuss the courses online and rate the lecture courses we purchase at great expense. All I got was a polite “thank you” comment from their marketing department. They still don’t let customers give direct feedback online at the company’s website, even though they tell us the course and professor selections are the best based upon customer feedback. Even worse, they don’t let you hear an audio sample of the lectures before you buy like Audiobooks does. That’s a huge mistake when you buy a course and discover the professor’s oral delivery is poor…
This is one course you might avoid if you knew (as I do from listening to 24 hours of lectures) that Professor Concall will drive you to insanity with his hurried and burbled speech while he tries to read his notes too fast. It would have been much better if they hired a professional reader to do the same thing. No matter what the Teaching Company advertises, great professors don’t read their notes verbatim like he does…
Some Teaching Company courses are very good, but others are very poor for what they charge. It’s a shame you need to read about their inadequacies on Amazon rather than reading customer feedback on the Teaching Company website [...]
Rating: 3 / 5