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Classes!
M/W/F
11:15-12:10 ... ENG 304Z
Alone. A theory class studying the mechanics of "poetics" -- short stories, poetry, etc. The professor is crazy, she looks like a business-like butch lesbian and went off on a thousand tangents about how Moby Dick was quite literally about a big white dick and if other English professors tell us otherwise it's only because they're uncomfortable and lying because they don't want to tell you that and how about the gay sailor's marriage that fades out on the bedroom scene in early chapters? Yeah, she's great. She took this one punk asking obnoxious questions and pointed out to him that anything could be poetry by asking three students to write three words each, and then she took them and wrote them down and dared us to interpret the poem.
beauty help
fire love
Death Home
Influence
pig
fish
Instant fun! She also told us about someone she'd had who wrote a poem that went like this: onion ring / Madonna / eat me while I'm hot. I approve. However, her class sounds like a crazy amount of work, and little actual creative writing -- which I didn't know until I got there -- and I am not actually technically supposed to have been able to get in there. So, I got a better one.
Status of ENG 304Z: Dropped.
1:25-2:20 ... ENG 378
Mythic Concepts in Literature, with Val and Jess and also John! This semester the topic is Arthurian Legends. We watched an excerpt from Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the first class. Needless to say, damn cool. In addition, however, the professor is one I've had before and really like -- and it looks even easier than the last class we had with her. No response papers, and no final from hell like the 70-page one last semester.
Status of ENG 378: Fun.
2:30-3:25 ... MAT 106
Survey of Calculus, with Val. I was terrified of this class, but the professor we got sounds like a Muppet, dresses and looks like a reject from Kids in the Hall, and is apparently determined to make the course really easy. So easy he doesn't expect us to need calculators at any point in time. He won't be collecting homework, or even checking it, and there will only be three exams overall. Sounds like what I want from my requisite math course.
Status of MAT 106: Easy.
3:35-5:35, Wednesday only ... UNL 205
Alone. In case you go to a normal college and don't recognize that prefix, it's "university library". This is a class where they teach you how to use the university library system, and assume that you are too stupid to know how to use MLA citation. For many students, this is true. Can't I just photocopy one of my papers from last year and prove my competency? Anyway, it meets once a week for two hours, and there are only seven classes, as it's half a semester -- that's including the one I just had, and the final. Five if you don't count them. I would never in a million years take this course, but it is unfortunately the only way to satisfy the Information Literacy requirement for graduation.
Status of UNL 205: Stupid, but Easy.
4:15-7:05, Monday only ... ENG 210
Alone. I haven't been to this class yet. More on the saga of my English 210 in a few moments...~
T/Th
11:15-12:35 ... EAJ 384
History of Japan part one, with Jess and Val. This is a requirement for my Japanese major, of course. The professor is DeBlasi, who last fall was responsible for the travesty that was Asian-America ("Then I started drinking milk, and suddenly, I was big and strong just like the Caucasian boys, and they let me play on the football team!") but it wasn't his fault, really. He himself is a very nice man who just so happens to have a spine made out of jello. But he doesn't control the class at all, and he keeps insisting that he wants everyone's opinions so he holds a million discussion classes where nobody says anything... Anyway. Requirement. I expect it'll be interesting enough, because Japanese history... is interesting.
Status of EAJ 384: Easy.
1:00-2:20 ... ENG 302Z
Creative Writing, with Val. This is the class I'm taking to replace 304Z. It's really creative writing this time, not theories of creative writing. I had to wrestle my way into this class, because of course it was a surprise registration after the first day of classes; but I fought valiantly for my SKN and finally knew the triumph of being awarded a seat in the class. The professor doesn't seem too thrilled about the subject matter, but hopefully will improve with time.
Status of ENG 302Z: Fun, Maybe.
4:15-5:35 ... ENG 210
Alone, Introduction to Literary Study, and yes, another one. Only different. First of all, I was wary coming into this class, because the professor wanted no fewer than thirteen books -- thirteen books -- of which maybe seven were not related to actual study of literature at all. They were books about cultural theory. Because, as I discovered when I got to the classroom, the professor is a crazy loon who wants to stretch the definition of "English" study to include other cultures and languages. Witness the following gem from the abridged version of the seven-page syllabus:
"The humanities, as the pedagogy of the difficult and unfamiliar, are perhaps the most urgent knowledges for the emerging global culture in which the opacity of the "other" should not only be acknowledged but also honored."
Neesama thought maybe I'd spilled something on the keyboard when I typed that up for her. I knew I had to get out of the class when she spent an hour and a half talking like that. Fortunately, she wanted me to: you see, the class was overbooked, accidentally capped at 60 students instead of the maximum 40. So 20 registered students had to get the hell out of there, and I wanted to be one of them -- but the section that they set up for the bumped students was during my math class. After days of trying to get other ENG 210 professors to speak to me, one wrote back, and I signed up for a Monday-only section of the class that runs at three hours and will probably have crazy amounts of reading every week. Oh well. It's a requirement, and I escaped the loon.
Status of ENG 210: Dropped.
So, in the end, I wind up with the following schedule. Probably, if I'm not in class and I'm not online, it's only because I'm eating...
Monday classes: 1:25 -- 3:25, 4:15 -- 7:05
Tuesday classes: 11:15 -- 2:20
Wednesday classes: 1:25 -- 5:35
Thursday classes: 11:15 -- 2:20
Friday classes: 1:25 -- 3:25
11:15-12:10 ... ENG 304Z
Alone. A theory class studying the mechanics of "poetics" -- short stories, poetry, etc. The professor is crazy, she looks like a business-like butch lesbian and went off on a thousand tangents about how Moby Dick was quite literally about a big white dick and if other English professors tell us otherwise it's only because they're uncomfortable and lying because they don't want to tell you that and how about the gay sailor's marriage that fades out on the bedroom scene in early chapters? Yeah, she's great. She took this one punk asking obnoxious questions and pointed out to him that anything could be poetry by asking three students to write three words each, and then she took them and wrote them down and dared us to interpret the poem.
beauty help
fire love
Death Home
Influence
pig
fish
Instant fun! She also told us about someone she'd had who wrote a poem that went like this: onion ring / Madonna / eat me while I'm hot. I approve. However, her class sounds like a crazy amount of work, and little actual creative writing -- which I didn't know until I got there -- and I am not actually technically supposed to have been able to get in there. So, I got a better one.
Status of ENG 304Z: Dropped.
1:25-2:20 ... ENG 378
Mythic Concepts in Literature, with Val and Jess and also John! This semester the topic is Arthurian Legends. We watched an excerpt from Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the first class. Needless to say, damn cool. In addition, however, the professor is one I've had before and really like -- and it looks even easier than the last class we had with her. No response papers, and no final from hell like the 70-page one last semester.
Status of ENG 378: Fun.
2:30-3:25 ... MAT 106
Survey of Calculus, with Val. I was terrified of this class, but the professor we got sounds like a Muppet, dresses and looks like a reject from Kids in the Hall, and is apparently determined to make the course really easy. So easy he doesn't expect us to need calculators at any point in time. He won't be collecting homework, or even checking it, and there will only be three exams overall. Sounds like what I want from my requisite math course.
Status of MAT 106: Easy.
3:35-5:35, Wednesday only ... UNL 205
Alone. In case you go to a normal college and don't recognize that prefix, it's "university library". This is a class where they teach you how to use the university library system, and assume that you are too stupid to know how to use MLA citation. For many students, this is true. Can't I just photocopy one of my papers from last year and prove my competency? Anyway, it meets once a week for two hours, and there are only seven classes, as it's half a semester -- that's including the one I just had, and the final. Five if you don't count them. I would never in a million years take this course, but it is unfortunately the only way to satisfy the Information Literacy requirement for graduation.
Status of UNL 205: Stupid, but Easy.
4:15-7:05, Monday only ... ENG 210
Alone. I haven't been to this class yet. More on the saga of my English 210 in a few moments...~
T/Th
11:15-12:35 ... EAJ 384
History of Japan part one, with Jess and Val. This is a requirement for my Japanese major, of course. The professor is DeBlasi, who last fall was responsible for the travesty that was Asian-America ("Then I started drinking milk, and suddenly, I was big and strong just like the Caucasian boys, and they let me play on the football team!") but it wasn't his fault, really. He himself is a very nice man who just so happens to have a spine made out of jello. But he doesn't control the class at all, and he keeps insisting that he wants everyone's opinions so he holds a million discussion classes where nobody says anything... Anyway. Requirement. I expect it'll be interesting enough, because Japanese history... is interesting.
Status of EAJ 384: Easy.
1:00-2:20 ... ENG 302Z
Creative Writing, with Val. This is the class I'm taking to replace 304Z. It's really creative writing this time, not theories of creative writing. I had to wrestle my way into this class, because of course it was a surprise registration after the first day of classes; but I fought valiantly for my SKN and finally knew the triumph of being awarded a seat in the class. The professor doesn't seem too thrilled about the subject matter, but hopefully will improve with time.
Status of ENG 302Z: Fun, Maybe.
4:15-5:35 ... ENG 210
Alone, Introduction to Literary Study, and yes, another one. Only different. First of all, I was wary coming into this class, because the professor wanted no fewer than thirteen books -- thirteen books -- of which maybe seven were not related to actual study of literature at all. They were books about cultural theory. Because, as I discovered when I got to the classroom, the professor is a crazy loon who wants to stretch the definition of "English" study to include other cultures and languages. Witness the following gem from the abridged version of the seven-page syllabus:
"The humanities, as the pedagogy of the difficult and unfamiliar, are perhaps the most urgent knowledges for the emerging global culture in which the opacity of the "other" should not only be acknowledged but also honored."
Neesama thought maybe I'd spilled something on the keyboard when I typed that up for her. I knew I had to get out of the class when she spent an hour and a half talking like that. Fortunately, she wanted me to: you see, the class was overbooked, accidentally capped at 60 students instead of the maximum 40. So 20 registered students had to get the hell out of there, and I wanted to be one of them -- but the section that they set up for the bumped students was during my math class. After days of trying to get other ENG 210 professors to speak to me, one wrote back, and I signed up for a Monday-only section of the class that runs at three hours and will probably have crazy amounts of reading every week. Oh well. It's a requirement, and I escaped the loon.
Status of ENG 210: Dropped.
So, in the end, I wind up with the following schedule. Probably, if I'm not in class and I'm not online, it's only because I'm eating...
Monday classes: 1:25 -- 3:25, 4:15 -- 7:05
Tuesday classes: 11:15 -- 2:20
Wednesday classes: 1:25 -- 5:35
Thursday classes: 11:15 -- 2:20
Friday classes: 1:25 -- 3:25