About two months ago, I made my perfect timetable for the 2008-09 academic year (which still hasn’t been upset by other people taking my spot — yet). With three English and one Chinese per term, and a science course in the first, that only leaves me enough space to select one elective for term 2.
Oh, the choices! After thinking about it for hundreds of minutes, I’ve narrowed my options down to six:
Anthropology 321: The Canadian Far West in Prehistory (Buchanan), MWF 9:00-10:00
Because I love cavemen and women and always want to know more about them. Because I also love British Columbia. Hopefully this is far west enough to include this love.
Central, Near Eastern and Religious Studies 307: Theories of Myth (Chem/Geog), TuTh 11:00-12:30
An examination of the origin, nature, transmission and interpretation of myths in the Western tradition, looking at theorists such as Freud and Jung.
Anthropology 303B: Ethnography of Special Areas (AnSo), MWF 3:00-4:00
In this case, studying the European Union and the challenges it faces, including ethnic conflict, historical memory, and the construction of national identity. (For some reason, Genevieve passed across my mind while I was looking at this.)
Religious Studies 306: Archaeology and the Bible (Neville Scarfe), MWF 3:00-4:00
Because I’m curious as to how these two interact with one another. Also because in IB, we did a mock history assessment of The Da Vinci Code. I rather hated that, particularly the accepting Dan Brown as a verifiable historical source. What.
Anthropology 202A: Contemporary Social Problems (AnSo Building), TuTh 3:30-5:00
While the prof is supposed to be good — actually, the profs of all these courses are supposed to be good according to RateMyProfs — the course doesn’t specify which region is being studied, and I can’t find it anywhere. Boo!
Sociology 240A: Introduction to Social Interaction (LSK), TuTh 3:30-5:00
Because I love people in general and am always interested in how they function, particularly when interacting with one another. I actually wanted to do some other Sociology and/or Family Studies courses but none of those fit in my timetable, so this is the closest I can get to those two.
Six courses for one spot: talk about competition.
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