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Two Humanities Courses

JayDub
edited February 2009 in General
I know some of you are Humanities majors (see: Student) and for those of you have done these classes, what are you opinions of them, the material, the hardness of work etc.

I am taking HUM 130 - Intro to Religious Studies via Distance ED. The tasks involve online participation, a research paper, an interview and a final.

As well I am interested in taking in future semesters: HUM 305 - Medieval Studies. What is this class generally about?

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  • Guest1
    edited November 2008
    Never take HUM 101 unless you need it!!! As someone who just got out of high school this course is IMPOSSIBLE! In my tutorial today, everyone was talking about how hard this course is! There's a 4thorsomething year who's in her last semester and she said that this is one of the hardest course she's ever taken! And another person taking a 300 level English class said that HUM 101 is way harder! I'm so terrified of failing =(

    I'm also taking 102 and it's fun... but my prof is supersupersuper picky... he really only likes a specific writing style it seems. And you have to have perfect English or something in order to get an A. But the content's great, overall, I really enjoy it.

    I'm interested in taking HUM 130 DE next semester... because I had HUM 101 this semester at 8:30AM and I have to wake up at around 5:30-6AM to get there and I just cannot do it. Today, I woke up at 6AM for the class... sat on my bed... and I just said outloud "I can't do this" and went back to sleep =(
  • Student0667
    edited November 2008
    JayDub;41170 said:
    I know some of you are Humanities majors (see: Student) and for those of you have done these classes, what are you opinions of them, the material, the hardness of work etc.
    Humanities courses are very reading intensive and you are often asked to read primary texts (ie: ancient works). At time, it can be fustrating because the English used are quite uncomprehensible (ex: the blah, blah from Plato and Aristotle). While other time can be very rewarding (ex: self-cultivation and junzi stuff from Confucius and Mencius).
    I am taking HUM 130 - Intro to Religious Studies via Distance ED. The tasks involve online participation, a research paper, an interview and a final.
    I haven't taken the course before, but good luck with it. By the way, I will probably be taking this in the summer. If the textbooks used are the same, may I buy them off you?
    As well I am interested in taking in future semesters: HUM 305 - Medieval Studies. What is this class generally about?
    The thing about HUM 305: Medieval Studies is that the topic for the course changes all the time depending on who's teaching it. Therefore, I can't really tell you what the next topic is. The topic this semester is Medieval Philosophy and it was a total pain in the ass. It was so hard that I am quite worry that I might fail the course.
  • JayDub
    edited November 2008
    Student0667;41180 said:
    I haven't taken the course before, but good luck with it. By the way, I will probably be taking this in the summer. If the textbooks used are the same, may I buy them off you?
    I don't sell my books at all, but I can lend it. I want to after to have all my books on my bookshelf so I can be like, "look, I have books, I am smart".

    Anyways the books I will be using are... *looking*

    Molloy, M. (2008). Experiencing the World's Religions: Tradition, Challenge, and Change (4th ed.). McGraw Hill.

    and

    Robbins, T. (2003). Skinny Legs and All. Bantam Books.
  • Guest1
    edited November 2008
    Darrnit, looks like the HUM 130 DE course is almost filled out!!!! Augh, won't be taking it next semester =(
  • JayDub
    edited November 2008
    Well if you get in and I need help with the class I am going to be PMing you for help.
  • bleed.the.mannequin
    edited February 2009
    hey how was that class DE? Hum 130..that is
  • Student0667
    edited February 2009
    bleed.the.mannequin;48226 said:
    hey how was that class DE? Hum 130..that is
    Thanks for asking, it is going Ok right now, I handed in the Interview Assignment last week. Unless I made some major blunder, I should get some decent mark back. Now, I am working on the big paper for this course as well as preparing for the final.
  • mscassidy
    edited February 2009
    summerheaven;41176 said:
    And you have to have perfect English or something in order to get an A.
    And that's bad because...?
  • JayDub
    edited February 2009
    Well apparently speaking English at an English university in an English speaking city/province/country is just a ridiculous notion...
  • Guest1
    edited February 2009
    mscassidy;48738 said:
    And that's bad because...?
    Because it's not an easy A?

    In my class I think a lot of people failed and only 3rd year English or Humanities majors and a lucky few just scrapped by.
    JayDub;48740 said:
    Well apparently speaking English at an English university in an English speaking city/province/country is just a ridiculous notion...
    Well jeeze, that's a little closed-minded. And it's not what I meant.

    It's just that it was a 101 class, meaning it was a FIRST YEAR INTRODUCTION course. You can't expect all the students to be perfect at everything.
    In my HUM 102 class my prof was also an English major and he went on a crazed rant about n-dashes vs. m-dashes. Since Microsoft Word does the dashes automatically, I had to go back and manually change it for some of my papers. Wow.

    Even people who were born and raised here in this English speaking city/province/country don't have "perfect" English.
    I used to pride myself in my English because I was always at the top of my class in high school, but since I was also raised to speak Cantonese and is currently trying to learn to speak and write Japanese, Mandarin and Korean (well, I was forced to learn Korean with my friend... not really into it) I'm sure my English is getting worse.

    (Okay, I hope this doesn't become some sort of a debate.)
  • Student0667
    edited February 2009
    For those who need to fulfill their B-Humanities, there are MUCH MORE options (ex: English and History) out there than just courses from the Humanities Department.
    summerheaven;48742 said:
    Because it's not an easy A?

    In my class I think a lot of people failed and only 3rd year English or Humanities majors and a lucky few just scrapped by.
    I just realized that you took HUM-101 with two of Humanities's most hardass professors: Stephen Duguid and Samir Gandesha. I am glad that they didn't scared you away from Humanities because there much better profs in Humanities than these two. Not saying that these two are bad, but there are better pros.
    It's just that it was a 101 class, meaning it was a FIRST YEAR INTRODUCTION course. You can't expect all the students to be perfect at everything.
    Their expectation for 100 level class is too unreasonable. I still make occasional grammatical blunders even in my 400-Level History class and the worst I get is a "please edit more carefully."
    In my HUM 102 class my prof was also an English major and he went on a crazed rant about n-dashes vs. m-dashes. Since Microsoft Word does the dashes automatically, I had to go back and manually change it for some of my papers. Wow.
    Pearson? Haha, he does that sometimes. Back in Fall 07, I took HUM 201 with him and he spent 30 minutes taking about the difference between Israeli and Israelites after many of us mixed these two terms up in a paper about the Song of Songs. The great thing about Pearson is that most, if not, all of his tips are useful.
    (Okay, I hope this doesn't become some sort of a debate.)
    Not when I am around.
  • Guest1
    edited February 2009
    Student0667;48845 said:

    I just realized that you took HUM-101 with two of Humanities's most hardass professors: Stephen Duguid and Samir Gandesha. I am glad that they didn't scared you away from Humanities because there much better profs in Humanities than these two. Not saying that these two are bad, but there are better pros.

    Pearson? Haha, he does that sometimes. Back in Fall 07, I took HUM 201 with him and he spent 30 minutes taking about the difference between Israeli and Israelites after many of us mixed these two terms up in a paper about the Song of Songs. The great thing about Pearson is that most, if not, all of his tips are useful.
    After that course, I honestly never want to take a class with those two again!

    Pearson's a great teacher but he is just waaaaay to picky! He had a little 10 minute rant about the different between the word God (the guy Christians believe in) and god (singular for "gods"). Wow...
  • randomuser
    edited February 2009
    summerheaven;48846 said:

    Pearson's a great teacher but he is just waaaaay to picky! He had a little 10 minute rant about the different between the word God (the guy Christians believe in) and god (singular for "gods"). Wow...
    That sounds pretty reasonable though, if you just say god, and don't reference to which peoples god you're attributing it too, it shows close mindedness on your part by inferring your god is 'the' god.
  • Guest1
    edited February 2009
    randomuser;48861 said:
    That sounds pretty reasonable though, if you just say god, and don't reference to which peoples god you're attributing it too, it shows close mindedness on your part by inferring your god is 'the' god.
    The paper was about Greek gods, I'm guessing some people who wrote the paper capitalized "god(s)".

    Reasonable or not, a 10 minute rant was very unnecessary... He could have explained the difference in a couple of sentences.

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