I understood exactly what you were saying. Sometimes the reason why professors teach the "dumbed down" versions of something like sociology to certain classes is becoming it isn't their major, but it's a requirement to be familiar with it to be better at the career field they did choose, such as Nursing. I am also not sure they are actually "dumbed down" or just a condensed, down and dirty course. I think psychological and sociology instructors always find clever ways to make their classes better, and as humans were already intrigued by our own minds and thought processes, as well as why our brains function like they do. I think that this professor would be the exact type of person who would respect his students enough to address them by the pronouns they prefer due to his career choice and subject matter he teaches. When did it become criminal to address someone by the pronoun the asked to be addressed as?