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As of right now, this is how my schedule shapes up: 1. English Literature: Chaucer 2. Russian Language 102 3. Russian Literature: Women and Russia 4. A not yet determined science class that I will take only because I have to and will hate the entire way through. Three I'm really looking forward to, one I'm not. Works out pretty well overall.
If you need any help with the Chaucer, I'm your guy. I was the resident Chaucer dork in my group of English major friends.
I don't know yet because even though I've done 3 semesters (about 35 credits) worth of college coursework, I'm still cosidered a Freshman at GW because stupid ********ing King's College London AND stupid ********ing Harvard lead me on all summer SAYING that they would send my transcripts, when they actually didn't So now, adter spending 2 hours yelling at King's at 4 AM and spending about the same amount of time with Harvard...they finally fax over the transcripts. But to the wrong office. And even if they had been delivered on that date, it would have been too late for them to be added to my record, since Class registrations began the next day. this means that now i'm having to register for c lasses along with al lthe freshmen, after all the GOOD classes (and, of course, al lthe ones i really NEED to take for my journalism major) are filled up. Ugh.
Don't you just love university administration? For me, my Winter quarter classes will be: Dissertation research (8 units) University teaching
Political Science- Politics of Identity Family,Nutrition,Exercise- Fitness Through Diet Sociology- Mass Communication and Popular Culture Comparative Literature- Great Books Then its graduation time!!!!
Just registered for winter term. We're on trimesters, so we only take three courses at a time. French 204 Intro to Religion English Lit II: Neoclassic, Romantic, and Victorian Literature
That's just a reccomendation though. I twice pissed off my advisor by registering for 5 classes in a trimester (we called em quarters).
I'll keep that in mind. I'm usually not very good when it comes to reading old literature, but I've never read Chaucer so I'm looking forward to it.
I thought about applying there, but really wanted to get up to New England instead of the midwest. Carleton is a great school though.
Do you know if you're reading a translation or the original middle English? Either way, you should have fun. Most of the Canterbury Tales (ie: everything you DON'T read in HS) are fabliaux (stories about perverted sex, youthful characters outwitting old guys, and farts. Seriously. Lots of fart jokes in the Canterbury Tales.). Plus, if your prof. has you read "Troilus and Criseyde" (sp), it's like reading the lost, romantic chapter from the Trojan War.
We'll definitely be reading in the original middle English. I don't know what we'll be reading outside of the Canterbury Tales though. I do know that I thought CT was complete BS in high school, but later realized it probably had more to do with the quality of the teaching and the way we just sort of skipped around than the actually quality of Chaucer's writing. I do know that I struggle with the language in most of Shakespeare's plays, so I'm expecting Chaucer to cause problems for me too. Hoping not though.
Chaucer in the original Middle English is much more difficult than Shakespeare. It's almost like another language. My advice is to just keep on reading, even if you don't understand it at first. Chaucer is a lot like those pictures that you have to stare at for awhile until the 3-D image appears. After a while, it just starts to make sense. As to the skipping around in HS, that's likely BECAUSE of the content of the Tales. HS gives you the prologue and the "clean" stories. Most of the stories are full of perversion and "inappropriate for HS" humor. Good luck!
Forgot to mention another good reading strategy. Before you read, check out a summary of each tale on Sparknotes or NovelGuide. That way, when you read, you already know WHAT is happening, and you can concentrate on the way the Middle English DESCRIBES what is happening. It's less frustrating that way, and you get better with the language much much quicker.
Yeah, I love it. Sorry for my previous post, I was assuming you went to St. Olaf. Now it's evident you're far too intelligent for that.
Thanks for the help JM. I'll try to read CT on my own at first to see how well I can do, and if I'm struggling then I'll try your advice.
Well I know it's NE, and I'm guessing it's a school similar to Carleton as far as academic standing. Since you have no hints in the location line of your profile, I'm gonna guess it's one of Amherst, Williams, or Dartmouth.
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