First Week of Class
Well, I've been through all my classes twice except for this afternoon's edition of Reformation Era. My Monday, Wednesday, Friday classes are New Testament Survey II and Autobiographical and Journal Writing. NT II is a survey of the New Testament books of Romans through Revelation. I'm taking it with Dr. Tom Halstead, the Bible department chair. I've always wanted to take a class with Dr. Halstead, but haven't been able to until now, my final semester. Dr. Halstead has a quiz everyday in class over the material covered in that class or on the quiz previous. But Dr. Halstead is probably best known for his infamous semester-long project: outlines. I have to outline most of the books of the NT (minus the Gospels and Acts) and they are divided up into small sections by Dr. Halstead. Every semester I've heard and seen what these outlines can do to people who procrastinate. We're talking like several all-nighters in a row!
Autobiographical and Journal Writing is my eighth and final class with my advisor Dr. Jack Simons. It requires (by the end of the semester) 30 minimum pages of my personal autobiography. Besides that, we will read six books and respond to them in different types of small papers.
Those two classes are the only ones that I'm required to take to graduate. However, due to insurance issues, I have to be a full-time student, so I am taking six more units of "fun" classes. By "fun" I mean classes that interest me and would personally enriching and help me to formulate my own ideas.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have an 8:00am class called Christian Worldview. It's a little bit different than most Bible classes, in that, it is more a discussion-driven class and not so much a lecture course. Dr. Greg Behle is the teacher, and it is my fourth class taken with him. Dr. Behle is probably my favorite Bible professor and he gets students to really engage their minds and not to just rest on their "borrowed convictions" that they received from parents, Christian schools and church. The class is primarily for upperclassmen to help them develop their own worldview based on God's Word. I think I'm going to love this class, even as it challenges my faith in order to strengthen it.
My last class I already mentioned is Reformation Era with Professor Jim Owen. I took Prof. Owen last semester for the first time in his US History I course. This class is harder, as it is an upper division course. We have lots of reading to do, one 8-10 page paper and, of course, plenty of learning to do.
That's my semester.
Autobiographical and Journal Writing is my eighth and final class with my advisor Dr. Jack Simons. It requires (by the end of the semester) 30 minimum pages of my personal autobiography. Besides that, we will read six books and respond to them in different types of small papers.
Those two classes are the only ones that I'm required to take to graduate. However, due to insurance issues, I have to be a full-time student, so I am taking six more units of "fun" classes. By "fun" I mean classes that interest me and would personally enriching and help me to formulate my own ideas.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have an 8:00am class called Christian Worldview. It's a little bit different than most Bible classes, in that, it is more a discussion-driven class and not so much a lecture course. Dr. Greg Behle is the teacher, and it is my fourth class taken with him. Dr. Behle is probably my favorite Bible professor and he gets students to really engage their minds and not to just rest on their "borrowed convictions" that they received from parents, Christian schools and church. The class is primarily for upperclassmen to help them develop their own worldview based on God's Word. I think I'm going to love this class, even as it challenges my faith in order to strengthen it.
My last class I already mentioned is Reformation Era with Professor Jim Owen. I took Prof. Owen last semester for the first time in his US History I course. This class is harder, as it is an upper division course. We have lots of reading to do, one 8-10 page paper and, of course, plenty of learning to do.
That's my semester.
posted by Happy at
11:52
3 Comments:
That post was REALLY exciting ;-)
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Amy, at 2:21 PM
Title for your Autobiography:
"The Story: How Michael Parker and a tale of rebels with names like Terrence who were out to defeat a galactic empire, represented by a guy named Flash, changed my life"
~Mike
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Anonymous, at 6:06 PM
Mike's comment helped it a bit. Thanks for the encouragement though!
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Happy, at 7:10 PM
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