Romantic literature tends to deal with the seedier things in life, but UF freshman Jamie Chute doesn’t see why her English professor needed to drop F-bombs in class.
Chute, who was home-schooled and dual-enrolled at Daytona State College for two years before coming to UF, said she’s heard professors curse before.
Nevertheless, she thinks that there are better ways of expressing the material.
“I don’t want to come off as a prude, but it didn’t need to be said that way,” she said.
But, under a clause, UF professors have the right to teach how they see fit, and this may include language that some would see as less than conventional.
“It’s my classroom,” said Meredith Cochie, a former UF professor in the College of Journalism and Communications, “and that’s how it goes for me.”
Cochie, who now teaches at Full Sail University, said curse words come naturally to her. The 26-year-old has been in newsrooms since she was 14, and cursing, she said, is part of life in the newsroom.
“I talk how I usually talk,” she said about her teaching style. “And that’s with curse words.”
Although there are no rules at UF specifically dealing with foul language, there is a rule about professors’ responsibility to respect their roles as teachers, mentors, researchers and counselors.
Read the full story at the Independent Alligator.
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