This has been an interesting start to an academic year.
British Modernist Fiction involves analyzing James Joyce and realizing he mostly writes about religion, internalized misogyny, religion, politics, the steady march of time, and stage mothers.
Creative Nonfiction is memoir-writing. So far, I have written about How I Learned To Knit, and learned that my childhood recollection of How I Came To Harry Potter is a complete lie, and Why That Is Okay.
Greek History covers mostly the ancient periods, from the bronze age to the Classical era. This is maybe 3000 years, but we just passed the Dark Ages. They were called that because there is no real writing during the Dark Ages, so there's only Linear B fragments and myths of the Trojan War. There's also Heinrich Schliemann, who went on an archaeological dig for Homer's Troy. He dug too far and what could have been Homer's Troy is lost forever, and the artifacts were in Heinrich Schliemann's trash bins. Don't be Heinrich Schliemann.
Greek Philosophy is exactly what I expected. Lots of reading in dead languages about Plato's obnoxious word usage. It's actually really cool to learn the concepts he was trying to argue about - there wouldn't be Christianity if Plato didn't introduce the concept of the soul, for example. In Plato's day, there were good people and bad people, and what you see is what you get. It's perfectly justifiable to hurt those who have hurt you and help those who have helped you. But, Plato argues, is it not possible for good people to make stupid mistakes, and for bad people to act good? YOU MEAN THAT PEOPLE ARE COMPLEX???!!!??? THANKS, PLATO.
Communication Ethics hasn't gotten to too many topics yet. It'll be interesting to see the debates that spring up when we actually start getting into case studies, like Edward Snowden and Rolling Stone's UVA case last year.
Sooooooooo those are my classes. See you Wednesday!
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