Open up your mind
Oct. 3rd, 2003 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilight33I haven't really mentioned my new class that started this week, because to be perfectly honest I'm still not quite sure what to make of it. About 75% of me wants to run screaming, but the other 25% is intrigued by the challenge and the fact that I'm not comfortable with it.
The class is absolutely not as advertised by the generic class description I registered for. As the prof wrote in the syllabus, "Know that this format is different for each student - challenging all, amusing many, unnerving some, even angering a few. The rumors are that I am hyper, intense, passionate and prone to abstraction. All are true!... Moreover, I think and speak in a specific Althusserian struggle where human agency and capacity are always tied to ideology and power."
On top of that he says (although the system doesn't, yet) it's a W course, meaning writing-intensive. This is a category I've been meaning to shy away from until next year as I get these rusty collegiate gears running smoothly, especially where critical thinking is concerned. My discomfort stems from the fact that I haven't done this in a constructive and organized fashion for a long period of time, and my entire grade rests on my ability to do so in 3 papers & 1 class presentation.
Can I pull this off? At the moment I have no idea. In the span of just two classes I've been acutely reminded that I'velost forgotten misplaced(?) a lot of the spirit that my old mentor who was the Minister of Education for the Yippies (I am not making this up) inspired & encouraged in me. I still have his letter of recomendation & the email with the assurance of "Good luck with school. You'll finish your BA, I know." pinned on my cubicle wall. I have a gut feeling that if I stick it out this will be one of the most rewarding classes I'll have ever taken, right up there along with my work on Project Censored ages ago.
We shall see...
The class is absolutely not as advertised by the generic class description I registered for. As the prof wrote in the syllabus, "Know that this format is different for each student - challenging all, amusing many, unnerving some, even angering a few. The rumors are that I am hyper, intense, passionate and prone to abstraction. All are true!... Moreover, I think and speak in a specific Althusserian struggle where human agency and capacity are always tied to ideology and power."
On top of that he says (although the system doesn't, yet) it's a W course, meaning writing-intensive. This is a category I've been meaning to shy away from until next year as I get these rusty collegiate gears running smoothly, especially where critical thinking is concerned. My discomfort stems from the fact that I haven't done this in a constructive and organized fashion for a long period of time, and my entire grade rests on my ability to do so in 3 papers & 1 class presentation.
Can I pull this off? At the moment I have no idea. In the span of just two classes I've been acutely reminded that I've
We shall see...
