Classes
Class descriptions for next semester are out. (Everything here starts so freaking early.) I have to take the pedagogy course, so I only have two slots to fill. I'm thinking the 500-level Victorian Readings course (it's taught by a professor who's studying the exact same "one text, two interrelated stories in different timelines" topic I'm interested in, plus the readings include Vanity Fair and Jude the Obscure...and, sadly, lots of George Eliot, but, eh) and a 400-level seminar on James Joyce. (I kind of feel obligated to take that one, seeing as it's pretty much the only Irish Lit course here that doesn't involve an independent study--which I'll probably do next year, concurrent with my thesis. There's a doctoral student here doing contemporary Irish poetry for her dissertation, and she gave me a couple names of people to bug to do something with that. One of them is someone Matz said I should take a class from, so I will take that as A Sign. Anyway, the Joyce class should be fun--it's doing Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses. If the syllabus involved Finnegan's Wake, I don't think I could do it, but I'm pretty sure I can handle Ulysses.)
Wow, that was a lot of parenthetical remarks.
Anyway. It doesn't give me the same glorious schedule I had this semester--I'll be staying on campus twice a week through lunch and I have an afternoon class on two other days, boo--but if my 102 class doesn't meet then, I might have Fridays off, which would be nice.
In other news, Greekfest Friday! This one seems to be huge and full of stuff. I know I'm excited.
Wow, that was a lot of parenthetical remarks.
Anyway. It doesn't give me the same glorious schedule I had this semester--I'll be staying on campus twice a week through lunch and I have an afternoon class on two other days, boo--but if my 102 class doesn't meet then, I might have Fridays off, which would be nice.
In other news, Greekfest Friday! This one seems to be huge and full of stuff. I know I'm excited.