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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If MFAs can teach in English departments, why can't JDs teach in political science departments?[/quote] I have an MFA and a JD. So I can answer that. I'm qualified to teach English Comp, lit, and creative writing. I could teach any and all of those classes easily, and learned how to do so in my MFA program. I wouldn't know the first thing about teaching undergrads political science (in fact I never took any in undergrad). I do have a lawyer friend who taught a "law and society" class to undergrads as an adjunct, and I'd consider myself qualified to teach that. But nothing beyond that. Yeah, we study Con Law in law school, but in the context of case law only -- not in the context of theory of government, or even the practice of government (at least not outside of very specific circumstances occurring within the judicial branch). It does seem to me that OP (and perhaps some other folks here? although I'm guessing not -- it's probably the OP sock puppeting?) is, as a PP pointed out, confusing high school Government or Civics or something with college-level Political Science. I'd add that OP is likely ignorant of what tenured professors do as well (research being a focus, with teaching secondary); they don't seem to understand what academic scholarship even is let alone what the expectations for professors would be in a poli sci department. [/quote]
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