School
I've decided that this is how I am going to keep myself interested in homework this quarter:
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Classes Next Quarter
COM 470 Discourse: Analyzing Talk and Texts (5)
A critical and practical introduction to contemporary theories/methods in discourse analysis: how verbal communication (together with visual communication) is used in conversational talk and mediztized texts to construct identities and relationships; and how power and ideology are reproduced through these everyday social interactions.
AES 446 Music in American Cultures (3)
Compares musical history and experience of selected American cultures that have fed into the American musical mainstream or had significant popularity on its periphery. Case studies may include African Americans, Latino/a Americans, Jewish Americans, Asian Americans, or European Americans. Considerations of social identity as well as musical styles.
ASTR 211 The Universe and Change (5)
We will start with our own observations of the night sky and relate those to the theories of Ptolemy and others, reproducing and understanding the universe from a geocentric point of view. We then move to Galileo's and Newton's time periods and the definition of gravity. We investigate the steps that led to the acceptance of the heliocentric universe, and then a universe with no center. We investigate large scale structure, the expansion and possible acceleration of the universe, and such ideas as superstrings.
The Com class is with Crispin and should be 1) a breeze, 2) really interesting, and 3) essential to most data collection I do in the future, 4) my methods requirement!
The second one is an American Ethnic Studies class that just sounded damn interesting. I might end up dropping it (because it puts me at a full schedule AND I'll be doing Vag Mon's, but we'll see). I definitely want to check it out, even though it'll just give me misc credits.
The third fulfills half of the dreaded science requirements I still need. However, it has no pre-reqs, which means no physics or calculus, it sounds SUPER interesting, and I had Ana Larson for ASTR 101 my first quarter of college (remember the days??) and she rocks. This will be a smaller class than ASTR 101 by about 200 people, so hopefully I'll get through it with a good grade. I desperately need great grades for grad school.
And then I'll be continuing to work with Crispin on the Contact Hypothesis paper. I'm spending all tomorrow working on it and hopefully I'll get a lot done--especially a lot of writing. The fact that I'll most likely have a pending publication by the time I apply to grad school is so. fucking. exciting!
A critical and practical introduction to contemporary theories/methods in discourse analysis: how verbal communication (together with visual communication) is used in conversational talk and mediztized texts to construct identities and relationships; and how power and ideology are reproduced through these everyday social interactions.
AES 446 Music in American Cultures (3)
Compares musical history and experience of selected American cultures that have fed into the American musical mainstream or had significant popularity on its periphery. Case studies may include African Americans, Latino/a Americans, Jewish Americans, Asian Americans, or European Americans. Considerations of social identity as well as musical styles.
ASTR 211 The Universe and Change (5)
We will start with our own observations of the night sky and relate those to the theories of Ptolemy and others, reproducing and understanding the universe from a geocentric point of view. We then move to Galileo's and Newton's time periods and the definition of gravity. We investigate the steps that led to the acceptance of the heliocentric universe, and then a universe with no center. We investigate large scale structure, the expansion and possible acceleration of the universe, and such ideas as superstrings.
The Com class is with Crispin and should be 1) a breeze, 2) really interesting, and 3) essential to most data collection I do in the future, 4) my methods requirement!
The second one is an American Ethnic Studies class that just sounded damn interesting. I might end up dropping it (because it puts me at a full schedule AND I'll be doing Vag Mon's, but we'll see). I definitely want to check it out, even though it'll just give me misc credits.
The third fulfills half of the dreaded science requirements I still need. However, it has no pre-reqs, which means no physics or calculus, it sounds SUPER interesting, and I had Ana Larson for ASTR 101 my first quarter of college (remember the days??) and she rocks. This will be a smaller class than ASTR 101 by about 200 people, so hopefully I'll get through it with a good grade. I desperately need great grades for grad school.
And then I'll be continuing to work with Crispin on the Contact Hypothesis paper. I'm spending all tomorrow working on it and hopefully I'll get a lot done--especially a lot of writing. The fact that I'll most likely have a pending publication by the time I apply to grad school is so. fucking. exciting!