oh well, whatever
William is playing a video game, and I am ignoring my academic responsibility. We are both eating pizza.
My computer has been acting funny lately. It keeps telling alerting me of protection risks, and I've had to reboot the darn thing it feels like twelve times today. I think (hope) I've finally got the problem solved and taken care of, but I guess there's no way to know.
I like when school is challenging. Whether I live up to that challenge can be another thing altogether. My junior and senior years I have to take two readings classes through the honors program. They'll be small, one credit courses on a variety of topics. Basically whatever the faculty want to teach that students are actually interested in. Today I sent in my vote for which classes will be offered next year and some suggestions for future classes. It was kind of invigorating to be able to say, "This is what I want to learn about." Now, I have no idea if anyone else is interested in the topics I suggested, or, more importantly, if anyone is willing/able to teach them, but still. The point is it felt good to sit down and honestly ask myself, "If I could spend a semester reading/talking about anything, what would it to be?"
Here's what I suggested:
-Feminism
-"The American Dream" and ultimate non-existence/failure of
-Racism, Sexism, Classism, and how they "work together"
-Film
-International Literature--get our heads out of America/Western Europe. Native literature could fit here because it is not European. Things like The Kite-Runner could also go here because the American connection is not the main connection.
-African-American Literature
-The Civil Rights Movement (obviously could be connected/the same as the previous topic. I've never read anything by MLK Jr. except the I Have a Dream speech, and this could be a great excuse to)
-The Biology of Gender
-Mary Magdelene and other women of the Bible--I want to get to down to the nitty gritty, talk about the patriarchy of Biblical times and the Church and how that has affected how these women are portrayed/viewed/talked about
I mainly brought up the last one because I feel like the Church rarely talks about Mary Mag, and when they do, they usually write her off a "reformed sinner" (code words for "whore'" children), which is a lie created to discredit her as a disciple.
I wanted to put down sex/sex ed/rights respect responsiblity, but I think we would have had trouble finding someone to teach that let alone get such a class approved.
If you could read about and discuss anything for an entire semester, what would it be?
My computer has been acting funny lately. It keeps telling alerting me of protection risks, and I've had to reboot the darn thing it feels like twelve times today. I think (hope) I've finally got the problem solved and taken care of, but I guess there's no way to know.
I like when school is challenging. Whether I live up to that challenge can be another thing altogether. My junior and senior years I have to take two readings classes through the honors program. They'll be small, one credit courses on a variety of topics. Basically whatever the faculty want to teach that students are actually interested in. Today I sent in my vote for which classes will be offered next year and some suggestions for future classes. It was kind of invigorating to be able to say, "This is what I want to learn about." Now, I have no idea if anyone else is interested in the topics I suggested, or, more importantly, if anyone is willing/able to teach them, but still. The point is it felt good to sit down and honestly ask myself, "If I could spend a semester reading/talking about anything, what would it to be?"
Here's what I suggested:
-Feminism
-"The American Dream" and ultimate non-existence/failure of
-Racism, Sexism, Classism, and how they "work together"
-Film
-International Literature--get our heads out of America/Western Europe. Native literature could fit here because it is not European. Things like The Kite-Runner could also go here because the American connection is not the main connection.
-African-American Literature
-The Civil Rights Movement (obviously could be connected/the same as the previous topic. I've never read anything by MLK Jr. except the I Have a Dream speech, and this could be a great excuse to)
-The Biology of Gender
-Mary Magdelene and other women of the Bible--I want to get to down to the nitty gritty, talk about the patriarchy of Biblical times and the Church and how that has affected how these women are portrayed/viewed/talked about
I mainly brought up the last one because I feel like the Church rarely talks about Mary Mag, and when they do, they usually write her off a "reformed sinner" (code words for "whore'" children), which is a lie created to discredit her as a disciple.
I wanted to put down sex/sex ed/rights respect responsiblity, but I think we would have had trouble finding someone to teach that let alone get such a class approved.
If you could read about and discuss anything for an entire semester, what would it be?