inaccurate course title

[cookderosa]

I'm in a class where the title of the class seems to be inaccurate borderline deceptive.  The class title is physical security but the book used in the class is Introduction to Security.  Its kind of like taking Molecular Bio or Organic Chem and finding your class using a Gen Bio or Gen Chem book.  I will wait to see what direction the projects take the class.  I have had others where there wasn't a book that was a good fit and they made it work.  I was just looking forward to covering new material and not a rehash of general concepts that have been covered in my other classes.

So is the class title deceptive, or does the text simply not line up well?

I'm wondering if this teacher picked the book title or if it was ordered by someone else for the class? If the teacher wasn't hired when the book order needed to be made, it's possible that this was ordered as opposed to being selected by this teacher.

I suggest this because back when I chaired a dept, book orders were due well in advance- I've ordered texts and assigned them to sections LONG before teachers were hired. Sometimes 6-8 months before.