Hey everyone! I'm Cooper from Wayne, Pennsylvania, which is right outside of Philadelphia. I am a '28 here at Dartmouth, and plan on studying Quantitative Social Science and Cognitive Science. In my free time, I love getting food with friends, playing pickleball, watching sitcoms (personal favorite is Modern Family), and going on walks. I am super excited to be here and cannot wait to take you along my journey at Dartmouth!
I took this class with Professor Binkoski, and I absolutely loved it! We explored numerous theories regarding time travel and the existence of time, and it just completely blew my mind. Professor Binkoski is such an engaging lecturer and explains everything so thoroughly, which makes the class so incredible! After taking this class, I have become more interested in philosophy and cannot wait to take more classes in this department.
I took this class with Professor Horiuchi and learned more than I could have possibly imagined! This course is incredibly challenging and has a good amount of work, but I learned so much about the programing language R as well as how to wrangle and visualize data. By taking this class, I have confirmed that I want to major in QSS because of how interesting the material was. If you want to enhance your skills in R, this is the class to take!
In order to fulfill my language requirement, I took Spanish 9 with Professor Rieumont. This class was simply incredible. Not only was the content interesting and engaging, but my actual class itself (both the professor and fellow students) made this class so memorable. We learned so much about Spanish-speaking cultures all while having so much fun doing it, and I am so grateful that I took this class with such an amazing group!
Welcome back to my series where I review each of my classes in depth! This week's course is Spanish 9, also known as Culture and Conversation: Advanced Spanish Language. This class can count towards a Spanish major/minor, or even an international studies minor which I am thinking of pursuing! Additionally, Spanish 9 fulfills the language requirement here at Dartmouth, so it was nice to get that done before the end of my first year.
I took this class with Professor Rieumont, a professor of Spanish and Portuguese. As a quite small class with about 15 students, our mainly discussion-based class allowed everyone to develop their Spanish speaking abilities, which was incredibly helpful. In terms of assignments, we had daily homeworks, 5 take-home quizzes, 4 writing assignments, a non-graded mini presentation, and a final project where we created a script that recounted the story of a historical figure; these assignments were so much fun and really contributed to my growth as a Spanish speaker and writer.
A comic book that we wrote the script for!
Beyond just the assignments itself, this class was simply incredible. Because of the small size, we got to know each other very well, which made it super tight-knit. We would sit outside for some of the classes when it was nice out, we would get lunch on The Green outside of class, and we even had a party at the end of the term. I think this class is a representation of how close the community is at Dartmouth and how everyone thrives around everyone else.
All in all, this class was not super strenuous and it really helped me develop my Spanish skills, which I am eternally grateful for. Stay tuned for the next class review!
My classmates and I showing our work on the script!
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