Hello.
I NC for plausible deniability and so this thread won't come up in searches of my name, but it's me, small, feministy, fire-breathing, sometimes to be found setting up academic chat threads and then failing to keep them going.
Can you help me? I'm having brain blank writing a job cover letter. I've written quite a lot of job covering letters, some of them ok'd by my supervisor, but she's busy, and also this situation is confusing me. I'm applying to the university where I did my undergrad, to do teaching cover. I fit the spec pretty well, but with some of it, the reason I know I can teach what they want is because, uh, they taught me to do it. And I mean literally - I was taught by the person who's teaching is being covered.
If I were applying anywhere else, I'd write '... and such-and-such is central to my research, which I would be delighted to teach' (or similar phrasing that doesn't make me cringe, which I've not yet tumbled to).
Here, is it better or worse to include the fact I know the course pretty well because I studied it seven years ago?
Thanks, and for letting me witter.