<p>Graduate students can be excellent teachers even though they haven’t had the experience that a tenure-track prof does. I’m mostly objecting to a 300-level course being taught by one – and by one who seems to want to make the class as easy as possible for his own workload. After all, my D will be a grad student next year (I hope!), and she really needs the foundation that this class should provide. </p>
<p>BTW, I did get my facts wrong about the math course – it’s a 100-level course, not a 200-level one. </p>
<p>Jyber, ask your daughter if she was ever taught by a grad student. I found out this only by accident. S&P’s post suggests that probably many Smithies have had grad student instructors; they don’t necessarily tell us about it, though.</p>