Summer/Next semester
This will be the first summer that I will be taking more than one class, but they're at slightly different times, so it won't be a full semester load or anything:
Ceramics: Experimentation and Technique (currently called "Models and Prototypes" but my prof will be changing the name to reflect slightly different content). Basically, it will be 3 weeks of 9 hour days in the studio (3 days a week) with a demonstration of a process in the morning and then a full day of making whatever we want to make.
Environmental Conservation - takes care of a social science requirement, but it's a subject in which I would like to be more articulate.
Shamanism - I had wanted to take this class as a semester-long course, but it has always lined up with the time slot for ceramics, which is kind of a bummer. I'll be glad to take the summer class though - it sounds quite interesting. I was actually debating whether or not to take this or Classical Mythology, but I would really be throwing away my money for an easy A... plus I've already taken a classical literature course....
I will also be attending a ceramic workshop for the first time in my life (granted, it's just outside of town, but still. Mr. Herman is actually "teachinig" it, so it will be interesting to make art in that kind of environment again). Next summer I will apply for the scholarship to a 2-week workshop in Maine (the UW provides a scholarship for one student to go to Haystack, and I could also apply for their work-study positions if I don't get that, since the cost of the workshop is $900). But that's a story for next year.
For next year (following
lady_ryuki ' s example):
Advanced Ceramics - (of course)
Sculpture I - I want to take the Welding and Fabrication class next spring (I talked with Aris Georgiades, the sculpture prof, and he said that he'll be teaching it again as a special topics course) and I need a sculpture credit. And it should be interesting as well... despite some of the stories of extreme slacker work. (apparently there was a class in which a student turned in a pile of rocks hot glued together on a piece of plexiglass as their final project. Final project. One that was supposed to take them six weeks. Anyway, that professor has since retired, so we'll see what happens).
Adv. Harp - we have a new harp major coming into the studio! She's one of Karen's students, so I've met her before, and she's really nice.
Orchestra
Greek Painting - a companion course to the art history class on Greek Sculpture that I took last year. It will cover ancient Greek murals, and the many kinds of painted pottery. I think I want to play off some of those ideas for one of my projects in ceramics...
Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean - this class I'm taking because I want to - I have always been interested in ancient cultures and religions, so it will be very fun. I am considering it to be my reward for sticking through Astronomy.
And to pick my little bone with Astronomy one more time: There are two parts of the class, lecture and lab. The lab part (which is mainly math blah blah) is the more confusing of the two, and I have not gotten a single problem wrong. The lecture part I'm apparently getting a B in (it's 101 for crying out loud!), mostly due to overconfidence on the tests. This has spurred occasional moments of doubt - that perhaps I'm majoring in art and music because I'm not good at anything else and it's my "easy" way out (though that is the outlying opinion of art majors beginning to undermine my confidence). I know that I'm accustomed to getting everything right and this is a wakeup blah blah blah, but it still feels like I keep making excuses whenever I don't do well (the classes I've gotten a B in: Spanish, Indians of N Amer, and now likely Astronomy, I justify in my head that I'm no longer interested in Spanish, the Am Ind. class was too heavily immersed in law and politics, and now astronomy I say that I'm not great at physical sciences and I scraped by in that unit in highschool anyway. There are just too many excuses - and I could do well in those classes if I just tried more, but I didn't.
/self-critical rant
I want to take a life science class. I like biology.
Ceramics: Experimentation and Technique (currently called "Models and Prototypes" but my prof will be changing the name to reflect slightly different content). Basically, it will be 3 weeks of 9 hour days in the studio (3 days a week) with a demonstration of a process in the morning and then a full day of making whatever we want to make.
Environmental Conservation - takes care of a social science requirement, but it's a subject in which I would like to be more articulate.
Shamanism - I had wanted to take this class as a semester-long course, but it has always lined up with the time slot for ceramics, which is kind of a bummer. I'll be glad to take the summer class though - it sounds quite interesting. I was actually debating whether or not to take this or Classical Mythology, but I would really be throwing away my money for an easy A... plus I've already taken a classical literature course....
I will also be attending a ceramic workshop for the first time in my life (granted, it's just outside of town, but still. Mr. Herman is actually "teachinig" it, so it will be interesting to make art in that kind of environment again). Next summer I will apply for the scholarship to a 2-week workshop in Maine (the UW provides a scholarship for one student to go to Haystack, and I could also apply for their work-study positions if I don't get that, since the cost of the workshop is $900). But that's a story for next year.
For next year (following
lady_ryuki ' s example):
Advanced Ceramics - (of course)
Sculpture I - I want to take the Welding and Fabrication class next spring (I talked with Aris Georgiades, the sculpture prof, and he said that he'll be teaching it again as a special topics course) and I need a sculpture credit. And it should be interesting as well... despite some of the stories of extreme slacker work. (apparently there was a class in which a student turned in a pile of rocks hot glued together on a piece of plexiglass as their final project. Final project. One that was supposed to take them six weeks. Anyway, that professor has since retired, so we'll see what happens).
Adv. Harp - we have a new harp major coming into the studio! She's one of Karen's students, so I've met her before, and she's really nice.
Orchestra
Greek Painting - a companion course to the art history class on Greek Sculpture that I took last year. It will cover ancient Greek murals, and the many kinds of painted pottery. I think I want to play off some of those ideas for one of my projects in ceramics...
Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean - this class I'm taking because I want to - I have always been interested in ancient cultures and religions, so it will be very fun. I am considering it to be my reward for sticking through Astronomy.
And to pick my little bone with Astronomy one more time: There are two parts of the class, lecture and lab. The lab part (which is mainly math blah blah) is the more confusing of the two, and I have not gotten a single problem wrong. The lecture part I'm apparently getting a B in (it's 101 for crying out loud!), mostly due to overconfidence on the tests. This has spurred occasional moments of doubt - that perhaps I'm majoring in art and music because I'm not good at anything else and it's my "easy" way out (though that is the outlying opinion of art majors beginning to undermine my confidence). I know that I'm accustomed to getting everything right and this is a wakeup blah blah blah, but it still feels like I keep making excuses whenever I don't do well (the classes I've gotten a B in: Spanish, Indians of N Amer, and now likely Astronomy, I justify in my head that I'm no longer interested in Spanish, the Am Ind. class was too heavily immersed in law and politics, and now astronomy I say that I'm not great at physical sciences and I scraped by in that unit in highschool anyway. There are just too many excuses - and I could do well in those classes if I just tried more, but I didn't.
/self-critical rant
I want to take a life science class. I like biology.