Post the Third: Fall 2010 Schedule.

You know how I mentioned in my first post that I plan things out excessively? And how I was waiting for SFU to post their Fall 2010 schedule so I could plan that out?
They posted it.
So, here's what my schedule for next year looks like:


The classes I'm taking are:

HIST101 - Canada to Confederation
HIST151 - The Modern Middle East
GEOG161 - Canadian Geography
PHYS190 - Introduction to Astronomy
JAPN200 - Advanced Beginners' Japanese I

I'm a history major looking to become a SS teacher. To do that I need to study Canadian history and Canadian geography. Am I interested in Canadian history/geography? Not particularly. I don't really know what branch of history I'm most interested in at this point, I'm going to try and take a bunch of diverse courses to figure it out.

I guess what I'm really interested in is historical geography, which is a wacky mutant of anthropology, archaeology, human geography, and history. I don't know really how to go about studying that though? I mean, it's a very broad field, you can study literally anything. I'm probably most interested in the evolution of languages though, which adds linguistics to my field of study. Oy vey.

As far as Physics and Japanese go, I need a science course for my breadth courses and I am genuinely interested in astronomy, it was always the most interesting part of science to me. Chemistry was the easiest but it was mostly boring. With Japanese, I've been studying it all throughout high school and I'd like to pursue it as far as possible. At the university I'm going to, there are only 2 courses with which I can increase my understanding of Japanese (I actually think the first course I've already done in high school, but whatever), so I'm going to take them first year when the language is still fresh in my mind.

I am a nerd. I genuinely am interested in many many many MANY fields of study and honestly if I could do one thing for the rest of my life it would be to learn. That's sort of why I want to become a professor eventually. I mean, you not only get to continue to learn and explore your passion, but you also get to carry your learnings and passion onto others and hopefully inspire that same sort of interest.

So, yeah, bringing us back to the short-term, those are my classes probably for the Fall 2010 term. Registration starts in July, and our registration dates and times are going to be released in early June. I'll probably get a decent one because I got early admission and a scholarship, so HOPEFULLY I'll get into all my classes.