My Courses for my Final Fall Term!
Hi all! It's me again, for one more post—can you believe this makes it a total of 71 so far? Wow, three years of blogging have really flown by!
You may not know this, but the posts where I introduce my classes to you, the People Places Pines reader, is always one of my favorite posts to write. As much as I love talking about campus traditions, social life, and my study-abroads, the thing that first got me attracted to Dartmouth was the academics. I feel like every class I took here has opened my eyes to something new. While this may not be true to every college student out there, never did I regret signing up for a course. And, if you are curious, you can actually check out what classes I took for the Winter term of my first year here, and for my second year Spring here.
Now, for the Fall term of my fourth and final year of college, I've signed up for courses in Linguistics and Spanish—my usual combo. What I'm most excited about is LING86—Honor Research. As a major, I've submitted a proposal to develop an independent research project throughout the next two terms, and I am honored to have been granted the opportunity. For the thesis, I'll be looking into how my family's ancestral Indigenous language encodes ecological knowledge, which I'm really excited about.
In Spanish, I'll be taking my last class: SPAN55.09—Revoltosos/as, which looks back at the political revolts that happened under imperial Spanish America. I may or may not have intentionally saved this one to be my final class, for I really like the theme and the instructor, Prof. Cirnigliaro.
Lastly, as a bit of a surprise to myself, I'm enrolled in GEOG1.02—The Natural Environment. After GEOG9.01–Geographical Information Systems last Spring, this will be my second geography class, and the two in a roll. I can't complain, honestly. I've been loving to get to know the department. But, as you may know, this isn't my field, and thus I often find things hard (ie. assignments, tests, problem sets). The reason why I signed up this time, however, was to complete my SCI requirement, one of Dartmouth's distributive requirements—and the only one I am missing, for everything STEM tends to freak me out. But, genuinely, I am looking forward to it. While learning things outside my comfort zone can be tricky, I like putting myself out there, up for the challenge.
I know this Fall term seems to be a lot, almost overwhelming, but I am sure it will be great. Come back to the blog later to check out how it's been going!