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walkingshadow) wrote2002-03-18 08:04 pm
walkingshadow) wrote2002-03-18 08:04 pm
fall scheduling
Here are the honors classes I'm considering for next semester. I can take up to two:
IDH 2931 Writing and Love: in which "love" is not romance, but "a way of engaging the world" and the class is "about how to better give of ourselves." Weekly personal essays, and writing practice for 10-30 minutes daily. I've met the professor, and he's awesome. I might self-destruct.
IDH 3931 The Tao of Star Trek: where episodes of The Next Generation are used as foils for deep philosophical questions like, Is time travel possible? Will computers ever attain consciousness? Am I one and the same person that I was ten years ago? etc. Three 5-7 page papers (cringe), but no mid-term or final.
MUS 2931 Masterworks of Music
REL 3021 Indiviual and Religious Experiences: the honors section of this class will "look at several influential twentieth-century interpretations of religious experience, and will consider their assumptions about human identity and their usefulness as resources for understanding individual spiritual potential." Research paper on our own or with a partner.
THE 2931 Acting for Non-Majors: Am I up for a semester of shedding my inhibitions?
EXP 3104 Sensory Processes: Because I still need one more biological science for my gen ed credits, and this would fill it. Also, it sounds pretty cool.
I also need another physical science; so far, I'm looking at AST 2039 Exploring the Universe, AST 3018 Astronomy and Astrophysics (looking at that one with a wary eye, as it will actually require me to use my calculus), and GLY 1102 Age of Dinosaurs. I could take classes like chemistry or physics, but why? Why would I do that?
And I still have no idea what I'm doing with my major. I didn't even take a history class last semester; I registered for one, dropped it, and didn't pick up another. For next fall, there are two, maybe three being offered that I'm interested in (a very small fraction of the classes listed in the undergraduate catalogue are actually taught in any one semester). Plus the fact that I'm still not sure if this is really where I want to be. I love history, but what am I going to do with it? I know there are options out there apart from teaching and writing, but I haven't really found them. I'm still looking for a career, I guess; something I want to get up and do every day. Everyone I've ever spoken to has immediately reassured me that I have plenty of time, and right now I'm choosing to believe them.
Other possibilities: the next poetry class in the series (just how big a glutton for punishment am I?), philosophy, social psychology, French, Spanish, linguistics (English grammar), art history (Renaissance to present), and Intro to Buddhism.
Sigh. I think I'll go bang my head against the wall. That ought to be productive.
IDH 2931 Writing and Love: in which "love" is not romance, but "a way of engaging the world" and the class is "about how to better give of ourselves." Weekly personal essays, and writing practice for 10-30 minutes daily. I've met the professor, and he's awesome. I might self-destruct.
IDH 3931 The Tao of Star Trek: where episodes of The Next Generation are used as foils for deep philosophical questions like, Is time travel possible? Will computers ever attain consciousness? Am I one and the same person that I was ten years ago? etc. Three 5-7 page papers (cringe), but no mid-term or final.
MUS 2931 Masterworks of Music
REL 3021 Indiviual and Religious Experiences: the honors section of this class will "look at several influential twentieth-century interpretations of religious experience, and will consider their assumptions about human identity and their usefulness as resources for understanding individual spiritual potential." Research paper on our own or with a partner.
THE 2931 Acting for Non-Majors: Am I up for a semester of shedding my inhibitions?
EXP 3104 Sensory Processes: Because I still need one more biological science for my gen ed credits, and this would fill it. Also, it sounds pretty cool.
I also need another physical science; so far, I'm looking at AST 2039 Exploring the Universe, AST 3018 Astronomy and Astrophysics (looking at that one with a wary eye, as it will actually require me to use my calculus), and GLY 1102 Age of Dinosaurs. I could take classes like chemistry or physics, but why? Why would I do that?
And I still have no idea what I'm doing with my major. I didn't even take a history class last semester; I registered for one, dropped it, and didn't pick up another. For next fall, there are two, maybe three being offered that I'm interested in (a very small fraction of the classes listed in the undergraduate catalogue are actually taught in any one semester). Plus the fact that I'm still not sure if this is really where I want to be. I love history, but what am I going to do with it? I know there are options out there apart from teaching and writing, but I haven't really found them. I'm still looking for a career, I guess; something I want to get up and do every day. Everyone I've ever spoken to has immediately reassured me that I have plenty of time, and right now I'm choosing to believe them.
Other possibilities: the next poetry class in the series (just how big a glutton for punishment am I?), philosophy, social psychology, French, Spanish, linguistics (English grammar), art history (Renaissance to present), and Intro to Buddhism.
Sigh. I think I'll go bang my head against the wall. That ought to be productive.
classes!
Also, when does UF registration start??? I am worried that if I am accepted, then I won't be able to take the classes I want because they will all be full!!!
Re: classes!
As for my schedule, I think the science classes are pretty set, but I'm not sure about the others. If I'm sticking with history, I probably should, like, take a history class. And I want to take all the other stuff, there's just no room, or no time, or I'm just a little bit too lazy.
And, a class with you? Awesome. :)
A *Spanish* class with you? Let's just say I haven't spoken the language, let alone taken a class, in two full years. Oy. It's going to be a long climb back up.