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The Egypt class looks to be entertaining, if aimed more at frosh looking to fulfill their cultural requirements than history students as such. Which does work pretty well for me, because three classes are about the limit of my brainpower right now. (I have, with great reluctance, decided to merely buy the textbooks for a fourth class, and pet them lovingly, rather than trying to audit a full third-year Latin class while also doing two other language classes and a history class and trying to teach myself French. Because I occasionally remember my limits before I exceed them.) One of the books is big and shiny and coffee-table-esque, and a bit dubious, but as we're just reading selections from it, and the different chapters are all written by different experts, I'll assume our prof will choose the best ones accordingly. The other two texts are a great history text and a good basic atlas with corresponding essays.
I expect this class to be entertaining, light on the workload--nothing but reading and some studying!--and overall a nice refreshing change of pace from my other two classes.
The most difficult of which will probably be the second class of MWFs, the Greek class. It's a standard fourth semester class on Homer, except apparently the professor was originally under the impression that he was teaching third-year Greek students, not second-year ones, and is hastily redoing the syllabus now that he's learned better. He was planning on having us do 40-60 lines a day of Homer. Which...I would be hard pressed to do in Latin as a third year student, much less in Greek at this level and working with a new dialect. Eeee.
Still, it looks to be a very fun class. Lots of secondary readings, one short essay, weekly quizzes, lots of discussion of translation in class--I'm really hoping we'll get a chance to talk some about different translation approaches/goals/techniques/choices and that sort of thing--and with a professor who's clearly enthusiastic about the topic. The accent is a touch hard to understand at times, but he noted that up front and told us to ask for a slow-down and repeat if he ever gets hard to follow.
He's also apparently deeply passionate about Lucan. I respect that in a professor.
Then of course there's Latin Comp, which should be difficult in the "mastery of the material" sense, but not hard at all in terms of basic homework requirements. Which pleases me; I can shuffle study times around a bit as schedule and brainpower demand, but homework needs to be done on a pretty strict deadline, and so is much less amenable to flex.
Now to assemble my books for homework (why can't the co-op carry enough copies of that Homeric lexicon?), finish some basic chores, and try to get many, many things done in the next few days. Perhaps I shouldn't have scheduled quite so many things concurrent with the first week of class, but, hey. Live and learn. Eventually.
I expect this class to be entertaining, light on the workload--nothing but reading and some studying!--and overall a nice refreshing change of pace from my other two classes.
The most difficult of which will probably be the second class of MWFs, the Greek class. It's a standard fourth semester class on Homer, except apparently the professor was originally under the impression that he was teaching third-year Greek students, not second-year ones, and is hastily redoing the syllabus now that he's learned better. He was planning on having us do 40-60 lines a day of Homer. Which...I would be hard pressed to do in Latin as a third year student, much less in Greek at this level and working with a new dialect. Eeee.
Still, it looks to be a very fun class. Lots of secondary readings, one short essay, weekly quizzes, lots of discussion of translation in class--I'm really hoping we'll get a chance to talk some about different translation approaches/goals/techniques/choices and that sort of thing--and with a professor who's clearly enthusiastic about the topic. The accent is a touch hard to understand at times, but he noted that up front and told us to ask for a slow-down and repeat if he ever gets hard to follow.
He's also apparently deeply passionate about Lucan. I respect that in a professor.
Then of course there's Latin Comp, which should be difficult in the "mastery of the material" sense, but not hard at all in terms of basic homework requirements. Which pleases me; I can shuffle study times around a bit as schedule and brainpower demand, but homework needs to be done on a pretty strict deadline, and so is much less amenable to flex.
Now to assemble my books for homework (why can't the co-op carry enough copies of that Homeric lexicon?), finish some basic chores, and try to get many, many things done in the next few days. Perhaps I shouldn't have scheduled quite so many things concurrent with the first week of class, but, hey. Live and learn. Eventually.