Perhaps This Course is A Little Too High-Level For You...

[4thofeleven]

Discussion in my Islamic History tutorial today:

(Note that we’re now more than two-thirds through the semester now, and this is a second year unit…)

Lecturer: (Briefly mentions a community of Moroccan Jews that were still speaking Spanish as late as the nineteenth century, centuries after being expelled from Spain.)
Student: So, wait – who expelled them from Spain? The Turks?

L: You think the Turks occupied Spain.

S: Um.

L: The Spanish Christians expelled the Jews, after they conquered the Moorish kingdoms.

S: Huh. So did Christians conquer all of Spain? Did the Moors ever get it back?

(Awkward silence)

L: (Continues discussion, pretending S. had not spoken)

Comments

[sunnyskywalker]

*headdesk* If it were an intro class, I could understand - high school courses often don't cover that. But a second-year course, mostly over? Has S. even been to class?

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I'm fairly sure he's been to all the lectures... I guess if you can make it to second year Uni without being aware that Spain is not a Muslim country any more, a few lectures aren't going to have much effect on your ignorance...