Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Thoughts on this term

This term all of my classes are religious studies, and I think i am going to enjoy this term more than i have any other term. I am so passionate about religious studies and i don't know how I didn't see this before. I have Religions and Politics, which i am enjoying despite being crap at understanding politics. I also have Social Research Methods, which is technically a sociology course but under my course schedule it is listed as religious studies. Even though I have never taken a sociology course before I think i am really going to enjoy this course. it's practical research methods, instead of just finding stuff in the library. We start with finding information in the library, then we write up interview questions and conduct this interview with several friends and students and anyone who is willing to take it, really. After this we take the information we got from the interview and make two hypotheses and create two survey questions, which will go onto a class survey that we will administer to as many people that will take it as possible.

The next class is Religions and Sexuality, and don't even get me started on how excited I am about this class! I am actually doing EXTRA readings and going ahead on the readings for class and on the critical summaries due for each reading. My other class, though, is Ritual Studies and I have to take it AGAIN because i got a D in it last semester. That's my own fault though because I was going through an existential crisis and thought that this wasn't reality. Fun.

Anyway it all in all is shaping up to be my best semester yet here at university. I am super excited to continue. I am really considering going to grad school in religious studies. My only issue is that the other university in my city that does all of the grad schools... literally the only liberal arts discipline they don't have a grad program for is religious studies. how ridiculous is that? but i love my current job and don't want to move fromt he city, so guess who is probably going to be doing distance education part time? Me...

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