San Francisco Chronicle front page today?
City College of San Francisco cancels summer classes due to budget cuts.
Sad.
To get on a bit of a soapbox, budget cuts are at least partially because people who lose homes don't pay property taxes and a general lack of employment.
We're in a depression. Has anyone remembered how we got out? Public work projects were a large part of it. Whether or not the budget is bleeding all over the place, jobs have to be made or we're probably just going to spiral down.
Ugh.
The budget cuts have kind of sort of eliminated 'electives' for the Japanese department. In general, 6 units of electives are being offered a semester. I couldn't get into the other elective this time because it required JAPN 309, which I'm taking right now. So I had to take Business Japanese. Next semester I will have pretty much all possible pre-reqs, and I will have to take whatever 6 units of electives being offered to graduate. Budget cuts have negated my electives; I don't have them. I have whatever non-essential, specialized courses were offered at the time.
I'm also still trying to add classes, but it's really hard. With less classes due to budget cuts it's not as easy to add is it once was.
If the budget cuts result in only one Japanese elective being offered next semester that means I won't be able to graduate at the end of the Fall semester. I don't know just yet how that'll impact my ability to apply for the JET Program. I should look up the date of Spring 2011 graduation and compare it to the deadline for having your BA for applying to JET this year, but I haven't yet.
Of classes I want to add, I really want to add world of tea. We'll be learning tea ceremony! Tea ceremony...! I would love to learn tea ceremony, but I don't know if I'll be able to add the course, because there are tons of people ahead of me who are just taking for the requirement. It sucks; not only do I want the requirement but I really really want to take this one as opposed to whatever course they offer next semester.
And I am getting so sick of the Business Japanese textbook being sold out at Kinokuniya; I'm getting a classmate to let me photocopy pages from the book.