When planning classes....
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zen_monkHaving decided on my Philosophy major, of which I haven't done anything towards doing it aside from declaring it to myself, I've decided to look ahead on what classes I must take:
Intro to Logic
History of Philosophy: Modern
History of Philosophy: Contemporary
(the two above, though they sound the same, are very different in thought, as Modern Philosophy would be from between the 1700s and 1900s and Contemporary would be Late 1800s to present-time)
Internship in Philosophy
Critical Think and Writing for Philosophy.
Of the list above, the ones available for Fall Semester, at least, I would most likely choose Critical Thinking and Writing and History of Philosophy: Modern. I don't really want to bog myself down in rhetoric and risk losing it all because of overwork, so I decided to pace myself at least in them. I mean, I'm in a community college, it's not like I'm pressured into doing well because I shelled out thousands of dollars per school year. Thankfully, the college I'm in is pretty sweet where most of the teachers have, at minimum, a Master's degree. Some even teach at UCSB and teach here on the sly; some taught at the local high schools as well as here and at UCSB, like my Latin teacher in high school.
Though, I don't really want to go to UCSB if I don't have to when I transfer. Ideally, Wellesley College is my dream school but I'm uncertain whether my credits would transfer over. Also, since I'm a California resident, it's much cheaper to stay here and go to a state school, like UC Berkeley or even a private school, and not pay out-of-state tuition which every time I look at the costs makes me want to smash my computer in frustration.
What I'm displeased, though, is that because of the budget cuts for my school, many classes are cut including advancement into Asian languages. The real head-banger is that Chinese should logically be the language of choice aside from Spanish because of the growing power in China, but instead the only Chinese classes to offer in the next school year are 101 and 102. Despite the fact that there are enough students interested enough in the language to fulfill the bare minimum to sustain a classroom for the semester. And it's not even just advancement in the language; the foreign language department, for whatever reason, decided to only have ONE time slot for both 101 and 102, meaning there would only be two Chinese language classes for next semester. In comparison, Japanese has five total classes for their 101 and 102 (no 103, unfortunately for me, since I would have to retake that class and not have the stain of a D on my transcript) and Spanish has 23 teachers/timeslots for their 101 classes.
TWENTY-THREE.
I know Spanish es muy importante in California (I'm taking it, currently, and with the best teacher ever), but seriously, most of the classes are taken advantage of by the Spanish-speaking peoples trying to get an easy A. I think it's because the current chairman for foreign languages is from Spain and he's showing preference to his native land.
My Chinese teacher is most displeased. To quote my teacher, the man "has no vision!" Lots of Asian students of non-Chinese persuasions desire to take Chinese, and they're the ones shelling out nearly a $1000 per year to be here. If this school is poor, we need to take advantage of the foreigners! Like the UC system may be doing right now!
Intro to Logic
History of Philosophy: Modern
History of Philosophy: Contemporary
(the two above, though they sound the same, are very different in thought, as Modern Philosophy would be from between the 1700s and 1900s and Contemporary would be Late 1800s to present-time)
Internship in Philosophy
Critical Think and Writing for Philosophy.
Of the list above, the ones available for Fall Semester, at least, I would most likely choose Critical Thinking and Writing and History of Philosophy: Modern. I don't really want to bog myself down in rhetoric and risk losing it all because of overwork, so I decided to pace myself at least in them. I mean, I'm in a community college, it's not like I'm pressured into doing well because I shelled out thousands of dollars per school year. Thankfully, the college I'm in is pretty sweet where most of the teachers have, at minimum, a Master's degree. Some even teach at UCSB and teach here on the sly; some taught at the local high schools as well as here and at UCSB, like my Latin teacher in high school.
Though, I don't really want to go to UCSB if I don't have to when I transfer. Ideally, Wellesley College is my dream school but I'm uncertain whether my credits would transfer over. Also, since I'm a California resident, it's much cheaper to stay here and go to a state school, like UC Berkeley or even a private school, and not pay out-of-state tuition which every time I look at the costs makes me want to smash my computer in frustration.
What I'm displeased, though, is that because of the budget cuts for my school, many classes are cut including advancement into Asian languages. The real head-banger is that Chinese should logically be the language of choice aside from Spanish because of the growing power in China, but instead the only Chinese classes to offer in the next school year are 101 and 102. Despite the fact that there are enough students interested enough in the language to fulfill the bare minimum to sustain a classroom for the semester. And it's not even just advancement in the language; the foreign language department, for whatever reason, decided to only have ONE time slot for both 101 and 102, meaning there would only be two Chinese language classes for next semester. In comparison, Japanese has five total classes for their 101 and 102 (no 103, unfortunately for me, since I would have to retake that class and not have the stain of a D on my transcript) and Spanish has 23 teachers/timeslots for their 101 classes.
TWENTY-THREE.
I know Spanish es muy importante in California (I'm taking it, currently, and with the best teacher ever), but seriously, most of the classes are taken advantage of by the Spanish-speaking peoples trying to get an easy A. I think it's because the current chairman for foreign languages is from Spain and he's showing preference to his native land.
My Chinese teacher is most displeased. To quote my teacher, the man "has no vision!" Lots of Asian students of non-Chinese persuasions desire to take Chinese, and they're the ones shelling out nearly a $1000 per year to be here. If this school is poor, we need to take advantage of the foreigners! Like the UC system may be doing right now!
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