A predicament regarding my final semester elective

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Dracon II
At the moment I'm leaning towards doing Being, Consciousness and Existence. Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger sound interesting.

Keep doing stuff like that if you want a very cool job in government - we tend to recruit people who do subjects like that rather than the drones who do careerist subjects like international relations II, who we slot for the slave jobs. At least we'd know that even if you're useless at work you're interesting to talk to.

Sex theory subjects are good in that respect.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The name suggests that it is about World History... but in fact it is dedicated to the thumping of Dead White Historians

Ugh... run away from that stuff . Didn't realize on your first description.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by joncha
Prof. Striker

[BeBMan]

I bet Prof. Striker gives courses in hittin' it

Seriously, I would like to know what those "highly innovative teaching methods" in the word history thing are.....so I'm afraid Dracon must take the course .....

[Dracon II]

Well I might duck in on a few lectures if they don't clash with any of my enrolled subjects and if it's not at an ungodly hour (one reason why I didn't do it last year was because it was at 8:30am... Professor Wayne Hudson is not the kind of lecturer you want to have to learn from first thing in the morning. This guy has a crack gland in his brain).

[Dracon II]

Sex theory subjects are good in that respect.

Well in cultural studies I did an essay on transsexuals. Probably not useful for talking about around the water cooler in the Department of Whatever though...

Cultural studies was extremely disappointing. There's so much interesting theory to work from, yet we spent most of our time in tutorials leafing through fashion magazines and watching videos about schoolies week and female bodybuilders.

[Dracon II]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
How about:

HIS999: From Blow Jobs to Blown Occupations: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire

"From Barbarism to Decadence without Civilization in between" - Oscar Wilde

[Dracon II]

I've decided to do "Being, Consciousness and Existence". Interesting course, rich in intellectual content, and it will challenge me.

I'm planning on buying the readings and attending the lectures for the other subjects. The course dossiers are available only to people enrolled in the course, but I've been perpetrating a crime for the past year. Basically, I enroll in a course I have no intention of doing, buy the dossier and then cancel the course before the census date (beyond which I have to pay fees even if I cancel).

I did this for "drama, ethics and emotions" and "examining the self". Haven't read those dossiers yet, but I will someday