Fall Semester 2008

I'm working on a M.Ed. degree at the local university (UNF). I'm on the Adult Learning track with a focus on English (Lit). I picked English because I really didn't feel like going back through Calc & Diff.Eq. (4 sequential semesters and I'd need a pre-calc refresher, so make that 5) to go for the math specialization, though I'd really like to take some advanced statistics classes. It also aligns with a dream I have that I might go live in Japan one day. Teaching English is an easy job, and having a masters degree, especially in education and English, are major pluses.

Of course, my undergrad degree is in CompSci, so I need a bunch of upper-level undergrad English classes before I could take graduate English classes for the M.Ed. degree. I took two over summer. More about those later, maybe. Meanwhile, now I'm starting Fall 2008 and am taking classes in Linguistics (LIN3010 -- in case I decided to get an M.A. English since the M.Ed. will get me half-way there, and because I like languages and think language is fun), Literary Criticism (ENG4013) and a seminar class focusing on Samuel Beckett (LIT4934). I'll admit that Beckett was driven by schedule and being the least undesireable of the alternatives (Dr. L -- that's about Beckett, not you, really), but so was Buchner last semester, and that proved to be an interesting class, even if, in the end, I wasn't particularly impressed with Buchner. (If he had written more, I wouldn't be putting him on my reading list.)

Now I have to go try to make some sense out of notes I made on reading I did for Crit-class today, and what the instructor said Wednesday, which will probably be the subject of the next post.