Class pickings

I spent most of my weekend choosing classes to take in my first semester of grad school at Michigan.

Possible classes in the English department:
1. Fiction Workshop (of course)
2. Creative Non-Fiction workshop, focusing on the up and coming fourth genre,
the first three being, fiction, poetry and drama.
3. Teaching Writing, which makes sense because I have to teach two writing
classes in my second year.
4. Literature For Children And Young Adults - students will study Harry Potter
and Peter Rabbit!
5. American Sentiments in the 19th Century - sentimentalism, really.
6. Topics in the Romantic Period - I chose this only because I'd taken a class by
the same professor, and she's really nice. Gave me an A+ in my final
semester at Ann Arbor.

Classes in other departments:
1. Italian
2. Asian American History - why do Asian Americans think the way they do, feel
the way they feel? One question I always have is why do a number of them
look down on Asians and call them FOBs (Fresh Off Boats)? I guess they
won't answer that one in the classroom.
3. History of Opera - could be useful material for a story.

It's always hard to get what one wants, especially when it's a newbie applying, and all the second years registered for their classes last month.

Posted by Monoceros at June 2, 2003 10:39 PM