Six Students in Search of a Class

     Well, I've started my latest classes for my online Master's program.  Or should I say "class?"  Let me explain.  My first class in on early dramatic literature.  I will be reading one play a week for three months. At least each play is shorter than your average novel, so that will mitigate some of the work.  Pretty much all my assignments are for the last month of the course.  The first four play are from Ancient Greece.  Translated, fortunately.  I've even read at least one of them, maybe two.  The play I'm certain I've read is Lysistrata.  For those unfamiliar with the play, it is about how the women of Athens "withhold" themselves from their soldier husbands in an effort to stop a war.  Many 'spear' puns and double entendres ensue.  Yes, it is a comedy.  The next three are from Ancient Rome. All of the rest are from England, I think.  I'll have to double check, but I am mostly sure.  My other class is supposed to be on advanced poetry writing.  I'm more of a fiction writer, but some of my greatest works are poems.  Hey, the class should be easier than some other possibilities.  That is if it ever starts.  After a week of problems trying to get the textbook for the class, the class has yet to start.  Nothing has been put online.  No syllabus.  No discussion page.  No contact information. Nothing.  I believe this class is being taught by the same professor I had for my fiction class a few years ago.  During that class, he disappeared for about a month in the middle of the course.  No explanation.  Now, I don't know if he is a little late setting up the online module or if there is some other problem.  To keep on track with my plans, I need to take two courses this semester.  There is only one other course I could theoretically take this fall, and it requires over one hundred fifty dollars worth of books.  I'm not sure if there are other, less expensive options for the class.  I would have had to register to find out.  However, I doubt I would be able to get and/or read anything in time for the first assignment.  So, I am stuck without knowing what is going to happen.  Maybe the class will be up by the time I check again this afternoon.  If not, I have no idea what my next step will be.