Professor only giving outdated resources/readings
So I have to take this intercultural communications class as a prerequisite for my degree in anthropology. It's not hard, it's a 100 lvl course, and the information is pretty straightforward. I had some issues getting into the curse initially because registration this quarter was a whole mess, but eventually I did and I was a few days behind because of it. Here's where the issues start; my professor would not give me the first weeks readings in advance so I could stay ahead while my enrollment got figured out, and then once I did get it, I realized it's 24 pages of a poorly PDF scanned textbook from 1996. This is a communications class, I feel like there are plenty of scholarly sources within the last 10 years that we could be reading, that would be much more relevant and comprehensive, but oh well I'm sure it's just foundational reading. It was not. Every single source, reading, or video clip this far has been at least 15-30 years old, and the language/terminology it uses to refer to cultural groups is incredibly outdated. We're currently in our 'gender and communications' unit and I'm finding it hard to even start the reading ("the two sexes" published in 1998). How do I approach my professor about this? Is it even worth it? I feel like I'm writing 6 pages of BS every week while learning absolutely nothing other than how to rotate a page in Adobe PDF viewer. We have an "intercultural film review" project due as a final and all our film choices have to be approved by him, should I even bother with anything released after 1996? I'm starting to burn out fast with how frustrating this course has been.