Required course. The only purpose of this course existing is to waste students' time and make students' lives miserable.

Total nonsense. Example: identify 14 research papers for a reading plan when first-year students are only a couple weeks into the Masters/PhD. Advisors aren't even pushing students to identify a research direction yet.

No hate on the professor except for asking us to use a lockdown browser for IN-PERSON, but ONLINE quizzes, which is total nonsense. How about a written test?

Students would actually study a little of the course is not intentionally acting like an antagonist.