Day 45: OTHER CLASSES?

Other than this art class, ArtSt 7a, Art and Life, I am taking Communications 89, Geography 12, and two freshmen seminars (a 16 unit total). My communications class deals with Theories of communication, which often times, seem pretty boring, but can apply to broad life encounters, and help with general understandings of daily interactions both with other people, and with media. In my Geography class, we focus on learning how to interoperate different types of maps, and learn various forms of both analogue (compass and map and ruler) and digital navigation. Sounded cool when I signed up, but by far my least favorite class. My freshmen seminars ended at week five, but were super interesting. One of them was taught by professor Hall, and was on the topic of Music in documentary and political film making. I loved this seminar. We watched countless clips of films, and the critically discussed the use of music, and how it is used to make the viewers feel certain ways. The other seminar was on the topic of the Cuban Revolution. I really didn't know anything about this topic in history, so this seminar was extremely informative, as well as interesting. We looked at the revolution from a few different perspectives, giving us a fairly well rounded understanding of its drives major players (namely Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara). I seem to be doing pretty well in all of my classes, and for the most part, enjoying them.