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I just confirmed my fall registration and thought it might be fun to see what we're all taking this semester coming up.
I have two 100 level courses that are required for my major. One is an Intro to Human Communication and the other is a Survey of Mass Communications.
Then, I am taking a 300 level course in Health and Medical Communication.
Only three classes this semester, I was going to take 15 hours but decided to cut back when we were afraid we'd need money for other things this fall. The good thing is all of them are Tuesday/Thursday classes so I don't have to drive to the campus every day.
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Prosecution Clinic Independent Study (Basically a 50-page paper) Negotiation Institute Federal Income Tax Intellectual Property - Patent Accounting/Corporate Finance (or maybe just accounting).
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Religious Studies (Christian history from 325 to 1500) Thesis research-finishing thesis on Buddhist conceptions of anatta
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Linguistics 101 Urban Archeology Intro to Near Eastern Civilization Tantric Traditions Religions of Ancient Israel
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I am taking electrophysiology and a neurophysiology lab. The lab is going to be interesting- one solid week of neurophysiology from 8-5. I have had biology-related labs in the past which were merely a way of throwing a lot of work at you at once while others have been the most interesting and though-provoking experiences of my time in school. I really hope that this lab falls into the latter category, or it is going to be a looong week.
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In my defense, those two 100 level classes had to be gotten out of the way. And next semester will be a bit more challenging.
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This is cool. I am deep into the "Summer will never end" Blues, and I can't wait to go back to school...happens every year.
My schedule is not completely set in stone yet, but some of the classes I'm taking are:
Explorations in Teaching Music (my *first* Music Ed. class! Only problem is it's daily at 8(!!)AM... I really am excited though!) Music History 3 (starts with Beethoven) Conducting LDS Church History to 1844 Voice Lessons and Master Class...which I am completely freaked out about. ...and my personal favorite, for my Humanities minor(or perhaps double major): American Popular Culture of the 50's and 60's
So excited!
Good luck with yours, Belle!
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Yes, definitely not a race, I had to take a number of 100 and 200 level classes required for my major that I've just managed to get through recently. Think of them as GPA boosters .
I'm taking:
ECON E321 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory INFO I300 Human-Computer Interaction INFO I303 Organizational Informatics JOUR J300 Communications Law INFO I499 Readings & Research in Informatics
(The last one is a course one sets up in arrangement with a faculty member, I'm going to be focusing on the place of informatics in non-profits: reading the classic works on non-profit organization and operation, creating an ontology for a some subdomain of importance to non-profits, writing a series of short response/reaction papers, and writing a longer paper on the general place of informatics in non-profit organizations with my ontology as a theoretical example).
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Of course, I'm taking quals the second and third week in September, so make of that what you will.
hansenj, master classes are only as scary as the teachers involved. I've been to master classes taht were terrifying, and master classes that were fun, and some that were just flat out dull. You never know.
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International Economics (400) Differential Equations (300) Operations Research (400) Ethical Theory (200) Lifefit: Physical Conditioning (lab/lecture p.e. class)
I'm also auditing Philosophy of the Mind, which is a 400, but I might switch my audit to Developmental Economics, depending on whether it's going to be offered next year, when I can take it for credit, or not.
I'm really looking forward to my classes, although my schedule isn't the best in the world (too many holes and the economics class is at night).
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Megan, my teacher for the master class happens to be one of the people I auditioned for. I've had a little interaction with him, and he seems very kind but also intimidating. Mostly I'm freaked out because I know that most of the other singers in the class have stronger voices than me. I'm on the bottom end of the scores that have been allowed into the program. But yeah, it's a good kind of freaked out. It's the exciting-but-new kind of freaked out. Hopefully he won't end up being too terrifying, though. Posts: 1635 | Registered: Aug 2002
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You're right Kat. It's not a race or any other type of competition. I have respect for all people who finish a college degree, regardless of what it's in because what's "easy" to one person is very hard for others.
My advisor was helping me pick a science because I'm short a science credit because my biology work was in anatomy, which for some reason doesn't count as a science for the puroses of satisfying core curriculum requirements. Don't ask me, I don't understand it either. So she suggested Physical Science for Arts and Humanities majors which she said the science types called "Science for Dummies."
She then said, "Like they'd be able to handle some of our courses. I'd love to take a hot-shot chemistry major and drop him in an Advanced Elizabethan Poetry class."
Which of course, doesn't mean that some people can't be good at both, but her point was well taken.
Since I'm planning on graduate school, I took a look at the math requirements for the GRE, because my math has always been weak and my last math class was a dozen years ago. My husband was helping me, and he's one of those people who just groks math, ya know? So I told him I was feeling very stupid, and he said "Honey, there's no way I would have made A's like you did in the classes you took this semester. You have no idea how proud I am of you." I melted. I actually cried. To which he said "Wait a minute, there's no crying in calculus!" Posts: 14428 | Registered: Aug 2001
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It's all in their personality, really, rather than their skill. Some absolutely amazing teachers can have fun and friendly master classes. Some fairly abysmal musicians can have awful, stiff, nerve-wracking master classes. However, if the teacher seems kind, then the master class will probably be just fine.
I once attended a cello master class here at IU. The teachers were Helga Winold, another junior faculty member, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, and Janos Starker. THAT was intimidating, and I wasn't even playing.
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I'm so excited about my medical communication class. That really fascinates me and I'd love to study it more. Luckily UAB has a huge medical center and lot of the reasearch here is in the healthcare field.
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No problem. I taught Writing for Biochemists, and boy was that a disaster. Bob the Lawyer is the exception.
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kojabu - I thought you had something to do with the military...or do also students of aren't military officers study at Ithaca?
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hansenj, that's cool that you're taking voice lessons. Good luck with that! If I had a stronger voice I would totally go for classes like that.
I am taking one class that basically covers the theory and practice behind white papers. Interesting!
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I edited before I saw your post. Isn't Ithaca a school for ROTC? Lemme check this out...
Ah, no. I was slightly confused, because I recall reading Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) being taught in Ithaca college, but now I realized that "The Cornell Army ROTC Battalion also has cadets from its partnership schools:..... Ithaca College". So my memory slightly misleaded me...
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Cornell has ROTC, but I'm not part of it. I don't know what percentage of Cornellians are actually ROTC students, but I don't think it's overly high.
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kat - I'm getting a BS in City and Regional Planning and a BA in Religious Studies. I just added the religious studies major last year so I'm kind of behind on the coursework for that. I only need a few more courses for CRP so it works out well.
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Oh...fun! I'm jealous! I took a 100 level class that touched on city planning. It was a pretty hokey class, but I'll bet in a good program it's completly fascinating. It combines history, culture, phsychology, architecture, and aesthetics. And Religious Studies would be sheer fun.
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I'm getting a Master's in Technical Writing. My end goal is to do projects during the summer and teach university during the year. I'm not in a big rush - the job I have now is towards that goal.
I was thinking that after I got my master's, my next job could be with a textbook company making those interactive science DVD-ROMs. I got minors in Biology and Chemistry as an undergrad.
Sorry. That's probably much more than you were asking.
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kat - nah, that's really cool. It would be probably be fun to make those anyway if you're into the subjects (I'm personally not, but kudos to you). Posts: 2867 | Registered: May 2005
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I'm taking: 1-Marriage and Family Therapy Techniques 2-MFT II- Constructivist Approaches 3- Family Stress and Crisis Intervention 4- Research Practicum (work for the Department of Defense on the effects of parental deployment on adolescents.)
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Jennie, I took the Church History class last winter! It's tough, but really interesting. I had Hartley.
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Linguistics - English Words (half-year course) English - Major British Writers English - Canadian Fiction 20th Century History - European history 19th, 20th centuries. Politics - International Relations
And another half course which is as yet undetermined.
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I think it's something about biochemists, Kat. I was a TA for biochemistry for biochemists and it was largely a disaster as well. Although better than metabolism for biochemists with organic biochemistry for biochemists being the lowest of the low.
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Italian Lit. 63115--Dante: Thematic Elements in the Commedia Italian Lit. 73667--Petrarch: "I frammenti dell'anima" Lit. 73905--World Literature: Metamorphosis
And then I'll probably either take a language class (probably Latin) or a cool 17th-century British religious poetry course.
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quote:Originally posted by Dante: Italian Lit. 63115--Dante: Thematic Elements in the Commedia Italian Lit. 73667--Petrarch: "I frammenti dell'anima" Lit. 73905--World Literature: Metamorphosis
And then I'll probably either take a language class (probably Latin) or a cool 17th-century British religious poetry course.
Yay Italian! I want to take a fourth semester of the language, but I have to wait until Spring to do so.
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Hey Gosu - Congratulations on your first semester! It looks like you've got a pretty heavy courseload - I considered engineering for awhile, but decided to go for math & econ instead.
But I've taken my share of science-y courses. If I can suggest one piece of advice on doing well in those type of courses - do the problem sets EVERY DAY. If you're having trouble with one of the sections, see your professor or an acadmic tutor right away(most colleges have a tutoring service), and keep doing problems in those sections until you get it right.
A lot of new students, myself included, figure that since the problem sets aren't collected like they were in high school, there's no need to do them. I figured out about half way through my first semester that wasn't the greatest plan.
I'm a tutor now, and I see a lot of students coming in who didn't keep up with the problem sets, and also figured out about halfway through the semester that they were in over their heads.
Like my favorite math professor says in his Indian version of English: "Math is a participation sport! You can't sit on the sidelines just watching!"
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I agree. I floundered through my organic chemistry course, because I didn't do the problems. My nutriton class, on the other hand, where I was half teaching the other students, I did much better, because I did a lot of problems to make sure I could explain it.
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Ashley, that's cool! I'm excited for it. I have Susan Easton Black. She has been recommended to me by several people over the years.
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