I heard that summer 2001 will be the last time Whitelegge's gonna teach. I can see why people see him as a teacher who is not concerned about students, but I think he improved a bit when I took him. Still, he sounds a bit arrogant sometimes. Beside me, I know some other people who got intimidated by him. The hard part about the course is the material itself, and I believe that Whitelegge's test may be easier than Bates' already. One thing that makes me think Bates will be better is that she has her own reader, so you know exactly what to expect in the tests. While for Whitelegge, he just assign pages to read in the book (Which is hard and boring readings). Some details from the book ends up on the test, although he may have briefly mention it in lecture. He's not a high school teacher, so he doesn't write down every single thing on board; taking notes on what he says is more important than the stuff on board. To me, reading book is neccessary for succeeding in the class, because you won't be able to comprehend everything in lecture, nor TA will be good enough to answer all the questions you have. The readings are bad though, I feel like they take more time than the readings for my English Literature class that I took with this class.