(Originally published to my Livejournal, Creamsodaangel)

I think that my Info Tech: The New Media (CMNS 253) course just picked up a bit. At least, if it keeps going like today’s lecture did. Now that we’ve done the midterm (lastweek), the focus of the class has changed from the history/future/really techno-centric focus of the course, to more of the sociological affects caused by said technologies, and how they’re becoming ingrained in our society; how socialization is taking place in these new forms of technology instead of what we would ‘typically’ consider to be avenues of social communication. It’s quite interesting. This is the part of my major I enjoy, and is perhaps why I’ve been heavily considering as of late of declairing a sociology minor. I’ve been so deprived of sociology this semestre because I couldn’t get into any classes :'(

At any rate, it’s really interesting, which is good, because this class would put me to sleep in the first half of the semester. Bad thing to do, I know.

The other day (monday, I think) Amy and I met up on campus and found the 2006/2007 course guide, which is this really thick manual that tells you what courses you need for such and such majors, how you go about course planning, and descriptions of all the classes. Course planning is coming up quite quickly (November 16th – 830AM), so I’m getting slightly antsey and impatient, waiting for the Course Newspaper (a guide that tells you what courses are being offered next semestre) to come in the mail so I can start planning. I didn’t get all the courses that I wanted, many of them lower division requirements still! :O That had me quite infuriated, because here I am a third year and still can’t get the courses I want! Next semestre, however, 3rd years have the 2nd best registration dates, so hopefully it will go better 🙂

But still wanting my course newspaper 😛

One course I’d really like to take is Tourism and Social Policy. Unfortunately it’s a distance education course, and I’m not terribly keen on those. But it sounds like it would be a very interesting course, and would contribute to my (future) sociology minor, and some communications major credits I still need to accumulate (need at least 1 upper division sociology course).

I also need to take either a qualitative research methods course, or a documentary research methods course (I already have my quantitative research methods done). However, I covered most of that in the Sociological Research Methods that I did in Spring ’06. Oh well, it will be good practice on things I hate.

….I just remembered that I can search next semester’s course listing on goSFU. (yeah, I’m dumb 😛 I’m in university… how?)

Current Music: Fractured Folk Song – Country Bear Jamboree (WDW)
location: SFU Harbour Centre
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