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Possibly my last semester...
Sep. 10th, 2010 03:06 amYup, you read that right, this could very well be my last semester as an undergraduate student at my university.
It seems that I've completed enough credits to fulfil most of the requirements, but I need a couple more breadth courses.
(and, unfortunately, courses in your field of study do not count...)
So I had to find two courses that filled two different types of Breadths, Socials and Humanities.
Fortunately, the course registration system the university is using allows me to search the current semester for courses filling those requirements, so I managed to find a course that looked interesting for that one.
It's called The History and Aesthetics of Cinema, and covers how motion pictures evolved between 1895 and 1960, including how the art form advanced from 1 minute slices-of-life to the narrative form it was in the early 1960s.
So far it's proved most interesting.
As students had complained about all the silent films he starts out with, this time around he started with clips from Sound of Music (which apparently somebody's trying to remake) and Fred MacMurray's first film called Double Indemnity (a fairly dark film in comparison to most of his later films).
The other class I'm taking for the Socials credit is on Canadian Geography.
It starts on Monday, so we'll see just what it's like...
This semester I've managed to get courses that are only on one day each.
Mondays I have the geography course on the main campus, while on Tuesdays I have the cinema course on the downtown campus.
This is actually the first time I've been to the downtown campus, and I'm not sure what I think of it just yet.
Similarly to my favourite (and nearest) campus, it's situated in a mall (though this time the Tim Horton's is much closer to the campus), so there is a "food court" (though they call it something else) for quick and easy (though not necessarily inexpensive) meals.
It's fairly close to the harbour, and you can see the SeaBus terminal from one of the student lounges.
I really need to wander around the city a bit more, I'm not entirely sure what's around it yet...
(though there's an A&W on my way between the SkyTrain station and the campus, so there's a second place I like eating within walking distance)
It seems that I've completed enough credits to fulfil most of the requirements, but I need a couple more breadth courses.
(and, unfortunately, courses in your field of study do not count...)
So I had to find two courses that filled two different types of Breadths, Socials and Humanities.
Fortunately, the course registration system the university is using allows me to search the current semester for courses filling those requirements, so I managed to find a course that looked interesting for that one.
It's called The History and Aesthetics of Cinema, and covers how motion pictures evolved between 1895 and 1960, including how the art form advanced from 1 minute slices-of-life to the narrative form it was in the early 1960s.
So far it's proved most interesting.
As students had complained about all the silent films he starts out with, this time around he started with clips from Sound of Music (which apparently somebody's trying to remake) and Fred MacMurray's first film called Double Indemnity (a fairly dark film in comparison to most of his later films).
The other class I'm taking for the Socials credit is on Canadian Geography.
It starts on Monday, so we'll see just what it's like...
This semester I've managed to get courses that are only on one day each.
Mondays I have the geography course on the main campus, while on Tuesdays I have the cinema course on the downtown campus.
This is actually the first time I've been to the downtown campus, and I'm not sure what I think of it just yet.
Similarly to my favourite (and nearest) campus, it's situated in a mall (though this time the Tim Horton's is much closer to the campus), so there is a "food court" (though they call it something else) for quick and easy (though not necessarily inexpensive) meals.
It's fairly close to the harbour, and you can see the SeaBus terminal from one of the student lounges.
I really need to wander around the city a bit more, I'm not entirely sure what's around it yet...
(though there's an A&W on my way between the SkyTrain station and the campus, so there's a second place I like eating within walking distance)
