<p>Question, do people usually get into one of their top choices?</p>
<p>Also, does anyone have any recommendations/feedback on the TAs/professors this year? I already have some options in mind, but I'm curious as to what you all [who have gone through this process] have to say.</p>
<p>I did something called “Haunted and Gendered Spaces” or something like that. It was a feminist-issue related class. I’m gonna come off as an ignorant fool here but I freaking hated the class (I took it because it fit my schedule). So you know how when you’re discussing stereotypes it’s for the purpose of diffusing the ignorance? Well most of that class was spent trying to convince me that as a guy, that’s what I thought of women… except half of those stereotypes I had never heard of. I was like <em>**??? You’re telling me that’s how I think? So yeah… some awkward discussions there. Also the readings were “A Turn of the Screw” and “the Yellow Wallpaper”. These novels were about women being oppressed by males and had some sort of supernatural overtones in the plot. One of my essay topics was literally “Was she crazy” ----- wait for it ----- “or are the Phantoms actually real?” </em>. </p>
<p>My other one was Memoirs and Memory. Was a much more interesting subject matter imo. The premise is exploring whether memoirs and autobiographies reflect the memory of the authors and also whether the memory reflects the reality to begin with. In short, are memoirs simply works of fiction? The more interesting reads were Maus (a graphic novel) and Obama’s pre and post presidential memoirs. </p>
<p>My friend took Fairy Tales and it’s basically reading fairy tales and BSing about them as you would have/had done in HS if you ever did a Fairy Tale unit.</p>
<p>Do NOT take “haunted and gendered spaces”. Waste of time. unless it fits your schedule lol
Also Keep in mind that FWS dont’ need to be completed in freshman year. It’s nice to have a class with students from other colleges though.</p>
<p>Best to steer clear of any gender/race related seminar. 9 times out of 10 these serve as a soap box for some insufferable graduate student with a radically leftist political or social agenda. Learning how properly construct and articulate an argument takes a back seat to reading watered down or downright silly “literary” works with unnecessary PC overtones. </p>
<p>Instead take a Philosophy, History, Linguistics, Classics, or Government seminar where the required readings include works considered Canon (yeah that usually means dead white guys).</p>
<p>Um, you pick your choices based on which fit your schedule. You know what time each class is being held when you pick your choices. As long as you don’t switch anything around, you shouldn’t have any problem schedule-wise no matter what choice you get.</p>
<p>Best to steer clear of any gender/race related seminar. 9 times out of 10 these serve as a soap box for some insufferable graduate student with a radically leftist political or social agenda. Learning how properly construct and articulate an argument takes a back seat to reading watered down or downright silly “literary” works with unnecessary PC overtones. </p>
<p>I’d argue that moderates are a hell of a lot more likely than radical leftists to be PC. Unless PC is not meant as politically correct in this context?</p>
I didn’t know that.</p>