HELP
So, I was kind of bored this morning (yes, bored...you heard me) and I decided to take a look at the general education requirements for film degrees and stuff. Out of like 128 credits 54 are strictly film related (screenwriting, craft, etc.) and 44 are general education. The rest are like electives or whatever else you feel like taking I guess. Within the general education requirements a third are expository writing classes (really annoying from what I heard over the summer), a third are humanities, and a third are sciences. I was sort of skimming the list of what types of courses fit each group and now I'm really annoyed. There are like a ka-billion courses I want to take and I'll have time for like a tenth of them. Maybe not even a tenth.
Here's a list of the categories I'm interested in (just in general education):
AMERICAN STUDIES
CLASSICS
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
DRAMATIC LITERATURE
ECONOMICS
CREATIVE WRITING
ENGLISH
EUROPEAN STUDIES
FINE ARTS
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE/GEOLOGY
POLITICS
JOURNALISM
HISTORY
LAW AND SOCIETY
LINGUISTICS
MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE STUDIES
PHILOSOPHY
PSYCHOLOGY
RELIGION
SOCIOLOGY
MUSIC
ACTING
DESIGN
DRAMA
DRAMATIC WRITING
CINEMA STUDIES
PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING
HELLENIC STUDIES
RUSSIAN & SLAVIC STUDIES
FRENCH STUDIES
And within each category is like five or so classes that appeal to me. WTF. Why does college have to be so damn cool? Do any of my college-age readers have suggestions to deal with his crazy mess? Or is it simply a losing battle?
Secondly, I watched Spirited Away today. It was really sweet. You can add that to the recommendation list if you haven't already. Now I've got to go add some films to the 'ole Netflix list.
posted by Timo @ 4:21 PM
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2 Comments:
Hey Timo,
a few words of advice. Once you're in college classes are determined a lot more by the quality of the instructor. In high school there was a set curriculum and the teacher worked within that framework to give you an interesting class. In college, the professors all have their own area of interest and they'll be more concerned with talking about that then helping you to learn what you want. Look not only for classes that interest you, but professors who are interested in the same aspect as you. That'll narrow it down a bunch.
Hey Anonymous,
That's extremely helpful. seriously. I guess I kind of knew that somewhere in a vague part of my brain, but I hadn't thought of it very directly.
That made sense. Cough. Anyway, that should help significantly.
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