culture shock
Aug. 30th, 2004 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marathoner452OK, St.Mary's is not FIU. Classes, for one thing, are going to be just a bit more difficult-try 3 6-8 and one 25-30 page paper-for one class. That would be Theories and Uses of History. And the big paper has to be written about "the historical assumptions and presentation of history" in a textbook, for crying out loud. Does that mean we have to read the whole textbook. They must think we're graduate students or this is the only class we're taking or something.
And my Values Inq philosophy class is going to be tough. Not a ridiculous amount of work, but we're going to spend the next two weeks talking about torture. Uplifting, isn't it? I can't read more than a page or two at a time without getting depressed. You would think that a class called "The Phenomenon of Violence and Non-Violent Strategies" would focus more on the non-violent side of things, right? That's what I figured-but I guess that's what you get when the professor's specialization is the Holocaust. Go figure.
My "Peoples and Cultures of Senegambia" class looks interesting, though. Only 8 people in the whole class, and the professor spent the summer running a field school in the Gambia. Should be lots of good discussion-all of them should be actually, but the workload is rather overwhelming right now. Just a little bit tougher than FIU, and I'm not a "hot commidity" as a minority either. No practically-free trips to Key West in the mix, I'll bet.
But that's what my SMP is for. Comparative slavery in Key West and St. Mary's County. You think listening to Jimmy Buffett counts as research? :p
~Bethany
And my Values Inq philosophy class is going to be tough. Not a ridiculous amount of work, but we're going to spend the next two weeks talking about torture. Uplifting, isn't it? I can't read more than a page or two at a time without getting depressed. You would think that a class called "The Phenomenon of Violence and Non-Violent Strategies" would focus more on the non-violent side of things, right? That's what I figured-but I guess that's what you get when the professor's specialization is the Holocaust. Go figure.
My "Peoples and Cultures of Senegambia" class looks interesting, though. Only 8 people in the whole class, and the professor spent the summer running a field school in the Gambia. Should be lots of good discussion-all of them should be actually, but the workload is rather overwhelming right now. Just a little bit tougher than FIU, and I'm not a "hot commidity" as a minority either. No practically-free trips to Key West in the mix, I'll bet.
But that's what my SMP is for. Comparative slavery in Key West and St. Mary's County. You think listening to Jimmy Buffett counts as research? :p
~Bethany
