Ahh! The Hums rant returns!

[smilingplatypus]

(Sorry for all this, but it helps me think.  And I need all the help I can get.)
Okay, I'm officially confused.  Of course Hums decides to rework the program the year I'm away, just to further complicate things.  Steph, did they explain this to you?  Or Leah, do you have a clue what's going on?

What I think I have to take, based on Prof. Laird's

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[lilacmermaid]

Don't panic, you're on the right track!

HUMS 3000
HUMS 3200
HUMS 4000
HUMS 4103 and 4104 (I'm taking your word for it on the course codes, but yes, Science and History of Intellectual Thought or whatever it is).

After that, it gets a little more tricky. Or really simple. Because we're the ones being screwed over like this in the middle of our degree, they're being really flexible with us for that remaining credit. We're allowed to take a Research Seminar OR Music OR Art, or some combination of the three. (Because art and music are each a separate half-credit).

I don't know anything about the Directed Studies, but I've always assumed they were something like the Research Seminars. In any event, I don't know anyone who's taking that. What I don't like is that the titles or whatever of the Research Seminars are really general, but when Professor Laird came and talked to us about them, he said that they were going to be pretty specific. I don't really want to sign up for one and then find out that it's on someone/something that I hate. And I'm mad that Professor Wallace isn't teaching one.

When do you guys get to register? Which discussion group are you guys thinking of going for? Trying to figure out my year is already giving me a headache haha. (I'm considering taking an extra year because there are definitely 10 credits worth of stuff that I still want to take haha).

[smilingplatypus]

*Breathes* Thank you! So we take a research seminar or music or art...that's one half-credit, right? Do they care what we take for the other half-credit? Because if our degree wasn't screwed up, there would be a list of courses to choose from (at least, the course program on the website says so). But if they're being flexible...? Or did you mean a research sem AND art or music? But then there will be a trillion people in those classes, since the third years are taking them too! Bah.

I am supposed to register on July 4, at 8:30am, but it's not particularly likely I'll have Internet access in the Glasgow hotel! I'm crossing my fingers for broadband; otherwise I won't be able to register until who knows when. I obviously don't know which discussion group I'm going to go for, because I've got to sort out the rest of my stuff first. But it would be cool if we finally ended up in one together!

I'll probably have to take summer school, at the very least, because it wil be little short of a miracle if I manage to take all the right courses. Even as it is, I'll have to have a chat with whoever is going to be Advising this year, since some of my courses here will have to be made to fit the program. Hooray.

[lilacmermaid]

Art, music and the research seminars are each one half-credit. So in the fall, you take art, music or a seminar, and in the winter you take art, music or a seminar. Although I think you'd have to do music and art in the first half if you're doing them at all, because the winter course is probably a continuation of that, but I'm not positive about that one.

I think most people will be doing the research seminars, but they are giving us that option. I know in my case, I have been dying to take music since first year, so I'm super conflicted haha.

[smilingplatypus]

Okay, you are a lifesaver. Or at least a reducer of stress. Thank you! I don't think I'm going to take music, as much as I'd like to... I've done music history for years, and I'd like to take something I haven't done before. As for seminars... my first choice is probably the first one (Tuesday, I think), just because my Thursdays next year are looking like death. Actually, my schedule itself looks like death. Hooray for doing two years in one! Still, if they let me register in what I want to, I won't complain about the schedule. Or, I'll complain less often.

[lilacmermaid]

If they had kept last year's schedule, your Monday and Wednesday would have sucked. Continental Lit, Hums 4000, and Hums 3000 all back-to-back. And then discussion group immediately afterwards on Monday, and Art or Music directly afterwards on Wednesday. So basically no breaks ever, and everyone came out of 4000 with their brains exploding.