in which the happy first day ends with a resounding thud

[fox]

that french course? "language development"? with the following description --

Careful applied re-study of the structure of the French language based on recent theories of communication and meaning. Investigates, and makes practical use of, general notions regarding levels of language, semantic vs. lexical fields, meaning in situation, rhetorical figures and discourse, etc. All forms of communication are considered, including oral and visual signs.

?

it has nothing to do with the structure of the french language. it's about literary analysis. it has nothing to do with my focus on structural and theoretical linguistics, and my french is way too rusty for me to do well in this class with six hours of other courses and three hours of sitting-in-on-the-lecture-i'm-grading and two hours of teaching per week to go along with it.

the other linguistics courses being offered this semester either (a) i've already taken, (b) aren't available for graduate credit, (c) are taught in languages i really don't speak, rustily or otherwise, (d) have similarly little to do with structure and theory and are way heavier on the anthro and sociology than i can stomach, (e) suppose (i expect) on background i don't have (such as psychology), or some combination of these.

i'm supposed to graduate in december. even if i don't, i have to have nine hours in order to count as full time.

[cries]

Comments

[bougrelasxiv.livejournal.com]

Can you do independent study or independent reading?

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Aw, shit. Any chance the class will change a bit? Or that you could talk to the teacher and supplement/change your personal focus? Or do an independent study? Damn.

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

I don't really have any advice - you know how well *I* do with such problems. But I do have ::hugs::

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Independent study. Directed reading. There's got to be something you can do for a few hours' credit.

[jgesteve.livejournal.com]

Don't you just hate when classes aren't about what they say they're about... My first experience with college level French was a course entitled General Introduction to French Literature... Somehow, I can't see how a class whose entire first half was spent entirely on in depth analyses of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs de Mal and Le Spleen de Paris can be called "General" or "Introduction"

[glasshouseslive.livejournal.com]

Yuk. You may have to stock up on maalox and go for door (d). It's just for 3 hours, you can do it!