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I finished my final paper for European History class today, so I wanted to share my experience, what I learned, and the outcomes!

EUROPEAN HISTORY: I took HST-102 (History of Europe Before 1600) at my university as a requirement for my History degree and as a supplement for the Honors Program I am a part of. We focused on Europe (mostly Rome and Spain) from the Mycaneans all the way to the Protestant Reformation

CURRICULUM: The course I took was structured like so: lectures Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We had a lot of very small grades (like, worth 2.5% of the final grade and two essays that acted as midterms. For the Honors section of the class, my “final” was a paper about a topic I selected at the start of the semester. My paper ended up being, “Henry VIII, His Advisors & The Game of Influence” about how the people around him impacted the split from the Catholic Church. I’m really proud of it.

(8) course overview : damn, it’s 7 am

so i realized i haven’t coded and posted a course overview yet soo since taylor swift is the best, here’s a course overview for the non-existent but should totally exist course, taylor swift 101! i haven’t tested this but well, at least it’s a pretty code :p keep the credits people and live laugh love taylor!

3rd October, 2017:

I’ve got literature on my mind today. I was thinking of recording a series of posts talking about my experience studying Literature in Kuwait: the pros and cons of studying western literature in an Eastern setting, benefits and drawbacks of small campus learning,  the things I learned, the things I regret, etc. 

As with anything, the learning environment is equally important to the process of learning itself. It influences what we read, the materials covered in class, the resources available to us, etc. And in a lot of ways, it shapes your interests for the future.

I went to an American collage here in Kuwait. One of the drawbacks of learning literature in Kuwait was the lack of variety in the materials covered. Our campus is small compared to a most western collages, and the English Department smaller still. We don’t have enough professors to cover a wide variety of topics and not enough literature majors to fill the classes. As a result, most of my literature classes are overview courses that cover specific time periods. Courses specializing in any one area, author, genre, etc was pretty much non-existent.

It might seem like I’m complaining a lot. Honestly, it’s not all bad. We have some really great professors who have really taught me a lot of great things. My classes are always super interesting. I guess the biggest complaint I have is that I wish we could slow down sometimes. Spend a little more time on one particular poem or a particular author’s work instead of zooming by from one to the next.