Got my classes!

[serene]

My schedule for the winter quarter:

Critical writing on prose fiction
Writing women's lives: a workshop
Elementary Sign Language II
Women in Performance (online class)

Women and Literature (online class; waitlisted. I'll get a different online class if I don't get into this one)

I had the opportunity to take ALL my classes online this quarter, but I would only have gotten the one English class, and I can't afford to put off my major prerequisites for that long. So schlepping out to Hayward two days a week it is.

Comments

[merielle]

That sounds like a delightful schedule! Do you know what's on the syllabus for Critical Writing on Prose Fiction? What's Women in Performance about - theater, movies, TV, spoken word... ? Sorry to pester you, I'm vicariously re-living my English major. :)

[betonica]

Those sound like interesting classes. (All I ever took, pretty much, were science classes, and they were fascinating. But still, a little more variety in my graduate work wouldn't have been a bad thing.)

You said earlier that your school wasn't very difficult, so it isn't too hard for you to get good grades. While that might be the case, I just wanted to mention that I don't think it follows (assuming you thought this - you probably didn't) that the classes at a college such as yours (a community college?) provide less valuable learning experiences than those at a tough place like Berkeley or MIT.

I say this because I did my undergraduate at Berkeley, and while it was excellent, one of the best classes I ever took was when I was messing around one summer without much to do, and took a singing class at a community college in Oakland. I was shocked (pleasantly) by how open and friendly everyone was. Fellow students were actually *helpful* and outgoing. It was definitely a culture shift.

I sort of hope that the small liberal arts college I'm working at now (Marlboro College, VT) is like that. I'm on the other side of the fence - and it's been a lot of years - so it's hard for me to tell.

Anyway, congrats on getting a cool class line-up.