Schedule stuff
Dec. 6th, 2006 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsSo currently the plan is to take three five-unit courses next quarter. This gives me fifteen units - the average number per quarter required to get you to graduation; minimum per quarter is 12, max 20 - and very busy Monday-Wednesdays, but absolutely no classes on Tuesday and Thursday and only one class on Friday. Tuesday and Thursday afternoons I work.
It's a perfectly reasonable and productive schedule; I'm taking one class for my major, one for my minor and one for my own purposes, and fifteen is, as said above, the average number of units people take, but I'm used to taking at least four classes per quarter and feeling a little guiltily idle. Especially considering the two-days-a-week-off thing.
This morning, I got an e-mail about this class:
New Media Writing: Storytelling by Any Means Necessary
Instructors: Tom Kealey and Adam Johnson
English 96, Winter Quarter, Tuesdays 6:15-9:05
This class is a hands-on exploration of how the Internet is impacting creative writers. Students will actively post to the New Media Wiki and Blog and will explore their own interests and present to the class. The class will focus on Oral History, Hypertext, The Graphic Novel, Gaming as Literature, and Fan Fiction.
It's five units (which brings me up to the max of 20), it fits beautifully into my schedule without depriving me of my lovely lazy Tuesday-Thursday mornings, and it sounds like a lot of fun. However, I've heard dubious things about classes at other schools that study internet writing and fanfiction - namely, that they tend to take a very patronizing tone, which would be a little awkward to sit through, considering. If anybody has information on this kind of class, I'd appreciate it.
It's a perfectly reasonable and productive schedule; I'm taking one class for my major, one for my minor and one for my own purposes, and fifteen is, as said above, the average number of units people take, but I'm used to taking at least four classes per quarter and feeling a little guiltily idle. Especially considering the two-days-a-week-off thing.
This morning, I got an e-mail about this class:
New Media Writing: Storytelling by Any Means Necessary
Instructors: Tom Kealey and Adam Johnson
English 96, Winter Quarter, Tuesdays 6:15-9:05
This class is a hands-on exploration of how the Internet is impacting creative writers. Students will actively post to the New Media Wiki and Blog and will explore their own interests and present to the class. The class will focus on Oral History, Hypertext, The Graphic Novel, Gaming as Literature, and Fan Fiction.
It's five units (which brings me up to the max of 20), it fits beautifully into my schedule without depriving me of my lovely lazy Tuesday-Thursday mornings, and it sounds like a lot of fun. However, I've heard dubious things about classes at other schools that study internet writing and fanfiction - namely, that they tend to take a very patronizing tone, which would be a little awkward to sit through, considering. If anybody has information on this kind of class, I'd appreciate it.
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Date: 2006-12-06 09:35 pm (UTC)Oooh. That is interesting, and making me feel more confident about the class.
I'd think that you, as a new media writer (by that definition, we all are new media writers!) concerned with literature as a field of study, really ought to take that class and fight for intellectual rigor.
*giggles* This makes me feel positively noble about taking it. But you're right, definitely; even if the viewpoint of the professor doesn't turn out to be one that I agree with, it's important to have an opposing viewpoint in the class.