Tonight is the night I register for classes. I'm going to need lots of coffee, and I'm also going to need the university timetable to stop being a flop. I learned recently that several of the fourth year courses I want to take might be offered as third year courses (no note yet whether the degree requirements have changed to reflect this), but I haven't checked where they fit into the year. I'd almost completely filled my schedule up preemptively, and now I have to decide which courses to remove. I might have room for one elective outside my faculty by the end of this.Â
Courses that may be offered:
Metaphysics
Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Contemporary Continental Philosophy
I'm definitely taking Continental if it's offered.
Courses I had already planned on taking:
Advanced Bioethics
Philosophy of Science (maybe)
Kant
Atheism and Skepticism
20th Century Analytic Philosophy
Theory of Knowledge
Environmental Philosophy
Hegel
Philosophy of Love and Sex (maybe)
I'll have to wait and see whether the courses I want that may be offered are in first semester or second semester, but if I remove my "maybe" courses, I'll have room for one extra course in each semester. I'm just hoping they aren't all in the same semester, because I don't plan on taking an unbalanced (6 courses / 4 courses instead of 5 / 5) course load like I had to in the past.
I think my enthusiasm for Advanced Bioethics has dropped a bit - what I really wanted was general Advanced Ethics, but since I've done so well concerning Bioethics in the past (indeed, they are my top marks) I think it would hurt my grade to not take it. Then again, if I saved it for fourth year, it could boost my mark and offer potential benefit (if I'm lacking in any of my seminars) for when I'm trying to apply for grad school. (Scratch that and thanks to the anon who helped me remember that they'd be alternating courses, I forgot for a moment).
I know Philosophy of Love and Sex is a silly course, but I need one or two silly courses in my year to prevent myself from going absolutely mad.
