Picking Classes

Picking classes is like Christmas time. There’s endless of courses to pick from during this time period, until the people before you fill them up. I picked mine at a fairly decent time, which was the 3rd of November at 10 am.

However, one class I DID want filled up. That was Documentary Film and I was going to take it for my Professional Writing major, which would have made my semester more “PW” heavy rather than balanced. The schedule I have now is balanced of the two.

The Schedule I got was:

Women Writer’s Around the World (10-10:50 AM MWF)

Magazine Writing (11-11:50 AM MWF)

Production and Performance for Young Audiences (3:30-4:45 MW)

Select Topics in English – Scandimania!: Nordic Literature in Translation (12-1:15 T/TH)

Technical Writing and Communications (1:30-2:45 T/TH)

I will rank my excitement / enthusiasm here:

1. Production and Performance for Young Audiences- This is for my communications minor (more specifically, the Performance and Storytelling one). I am excited for this class because it is with one of my favorite professors and I get to work with elementary school children with directing a play. It does make me nervous to a certain degree because of the fact they are children, but I think it’s a unique opportunity. I consider education so it’s good to have some physical experience with proof of instructing children before.
2. Select Topics in English – Scandimania – This class actually pissed me off at first. When I first made my schedule at 10 am that Friday, I signed up for Contemporary British and Irish Literature. This was not necessarily ideal because it meant I’d have 4 classes on MW and 3 on F and that is a lot. I also wasn’t necessarily that interested. However, I was CONTENT with it at that point. I already had a hard time choosing between that class and Teaching Writing (which was graduate level for both grad and undergrad so it intimidated me.) I settled on British and Irish if I couldn’t get Documentary Film that night before enrollment because I didn’t feel ready for a 400 when I haven’t even had a 300 yet. Then, two hours after I enrolled, I got an email for this class. It was at a better time and more interesting so it pissed me off I got a better deal when I was content and had a new choice to make! I did make this choice faster though. It just balanced things better. My family DNA also shows Scandinavian as the second most after German, and we might also have ties to the Sami people in Scandinavia. It just made more sense.
3. Magazine Writing – I was pretty neutral about this class. I’ve always planned to take this one from the “Critical Reading” category. It is not something that I’m necessarily feeling “I’d do this as a career” but I think it’d be cool to write for a magazine. I do run the literary magazine on campus and I write for Her Campus, which is an online magazine. I also written an article for the Archives Magazine, which was published in Research Commons as well as a select amount of print copies. I wrote an article on famous KU alumni.
4. Women Writers Around the World- This class is something I am mostly taking for my English major’s diversity requirement. However, women issues and things like that do interest me and I advocate for these issues. The only “BEEF” I have with this is I originally thought it was going to be Women and Violence in Texts as that was what was originally in the course catalog by mistake I guess. That was an interesting concept to me more so than the generic women writers around the world. I felt like I got some of that already in my Women Writers in Performance so Violence in Texts felt more different than what I am taking now.
5. Technical Writing and Communication- I am not that interested in this one, but it is the last core/foundation for my PW major. I am not fully sure what it is. It’s just good to get it out of the way.

Overall, picking was mostly a success.