Huh, at university level I would expect mostly articles and discussion about the literature, you'd be reading the literature in your own time (if you wanted, they'd give you excerpts for the tutorials if necessary). I imagine sitting around a table while a grad student tries to coax answers about why this historian's interpretation of Chaucer is good or bad.

Idk about the communist pirates though, personally I think lectures are bad and classes should be small enough to adopt a more conversational tone.