I talked to my  adviser on Tuesday, which was so helpful and calmed me down a lot about all this ridiculous major stuff.  First off, creative comps is, she told me, alive and well.  After talking it over, I've decided not to double-major.  Although I'll still continue to take environmental studies classes (the concentration, which is kind of like a ( Read more... )

    Happy Earth Week, everyone!  Anyway --

One:

A little while ago I attended a talk at my school given by alumni who are now pursuing careers that are, in one way or another, related to the environment.  I got some interesting ideas about possible future career options and this shocking fact: the major city with the highest flood risk in the ( Read more... )

American Studies 386/English 386/ENTS 386: The Literature of California (6 Credits)

An intensive study of writing and film that explores California both as a place (or rather, a mosaic of places) and as a continuing metaphor- whether of promise or disintegration -- for the rest of the country. Authors read will include John Muir, Raymond Chandler, ( Read more... )

The best college class I’ve taken so far was an American Studies course called Placing Identities. It was, as described in the syllabus,

About a topic often taken for granted, or not even considered, but which is extremely salient [you have no idea how much we threw this word around]. Place is often transparent; typically we don’t examine how ( Read more... )