So, here’s my week…
So, this week has been… bizarre to say the least. Protests, controversy, and all that…
But I’m going ahead and going to start by discussing my classes for next quarter. My Spring Quarter schedule is as follows.
If all goes well, I should be able to register for HIUS150 on the first day of classes… because who really wants to take American legally history, especially at 5 PM? I realize the 9AM Discussion on Monday for COCU100 looks really bad… but it one of the only discussions left when I registered… plus, I can just go to work immediately after.
But here are the course descriptions of the classes:
COCU 100. Introduction to Communication and Culture (4) Processes of communication shape and are shaped by the cultures within which they occur. This course emphasizes the ways in which cultural understandings are constructed and transmitted via the variety of communication media available to members. A wide range of cultural contexts are sampled, and the different ways that available communication technologies (language, writing, electronic media) influence the cultural organization of people’s lives are analyzed. Prerequisite:COGN 20, or HDP 1, or consent of instructor. Offered winter quarter.
COHI 134. Language and Human Communication (4) This course examines the interaction of language and culture in human communication. Beginning with language evolution, the course then discusses a broad range of human languages including indigenous languages, sign languages, and hybrid languages spoken in urban centers.Prerequisite: COHI 100 or consent of instructor.
HIEU 117A. Greece and the Balkans in the Age of Nationalism (4) This course examines the history of Greece and the Balkans (1683–1914). Topics covered: social and economic development in the eighteenth century, nationalism, independence wars, state-nation formation, interstate relations, the Eastern Question, rural society, urbanization, emigration, and the Balkan Wars. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIUS 124/ETHN 125. Asian American History Explore how Asian Americans were involved in the political, economic, and cultural formation of United States society. Topics include migration; labor systems; gender, sexuality and social organization; racial ideologies and anti-Asian movements; and nationalism and debates over citizenship.
HIUS 150. American Legal History to 1865 (4) The history of American law and legal institutions. This quarter focuses on crime and punishment in the colonial era, the emergence of theories of popular sovereignty, the forging of the Constitution and American federalism, the relationship between law and economic change, and the crisis of slavery and Union. Prerequisite: upper-division standing. +
5 Classes! Overall, that should be challenging enough. Especially after the whimsy three classes I have this quarter. BLEH ! I’ll keep you all updated on my full schedule for next quarter (with the insertion of work hours, sleep, homework clubs, and recreation time).
BY THE WAY, UCSD IS NOT A RACIST SCHOOL. A bunch of stupid idiots decided a “Compton Cook-Out” would be a thematic way to have a party. My American legal history professor posed a very good question at the end of lecture on Tuesday. In discussion regarding the positive effects of Brown vs. Board of Education, the legal logistics that followed the case resulting in legal equality for blacks in the form of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & the Voting Rights Act of 1965. BUT, then he asked if African Americans were equal economically and socially. Economically? A resounding NO. Socially? He asked one question I thought was of particular importance: How could we one one hand have an African American, and on the other hand, a COMPTON – COOK OUT?
Though the party itself was in bad taste, and offensive, I feel the media’s treatment of it was extremely biased and not fully factual. But who can be surprised at liberal media bias in this day and age? The koala didn’t exactly help either by using the N word on SRTV, which resulting in AS’s freezing of all media funds for spring quarter. Still, I think all sides in this issue are being extremely unreasonable. The BSU’s list of demands seem to be forcing things on people; their walking out on the Teach-in FOR THEM was quite rude I must say… And finally, their list of demands for “safe zones” and forced classes on students just doesn’t seem to work reasonably, and might end up further segregating the school rather than alleviating tensions…. All this, I hoped to die down, but then some idiot decided to put a noose in the 7th floor of Geisel library, further causing controversy. Good thing she confessed, but I don’t think we’ll ever know why & who did it. PS: BSU invading the Chancellor’s Complex and demanding a school shut down by 5 PM? Unreasonable. And it’s not going to happen.
On a lighter note, I think I’ll be going to Disneyland on Spring Break with Theresa! Good thing she has a one day pass, because MOST people wouldn’t pay 70$ to pay to go to Disneyland with me, simply because I’d end up going in for free. LOL. But Disney’s “Give a day, get a day” program is quite inspiring, and might do much more than the President said he would… At the health care summit, I felt I was watching a political debate again between John McCain and the President. Even though I oppose a universal health care system, I know in the end it will probably help me & my family more than it would harm me. Still, something about it seems a little too… socialist.
