In the class before this, on the last day of classes nonetheless, I was forced to answer the biggest question: “Now what?”, and this wasn’t asking what I was getting for lunch, it was asking what I was going to do with my English passion after college. I just got here! This seems to be an extremely inquisitive question for a 10:30 class as a sophomore, but an important one nonetheless, regardless of graduating year. It’s something we all have to think about, and as an English Major, it’s a hard one. Will I be forced to become a starving artist, writing abstract pieces of poetry, only for myself and “the art world” to see? Who knows? I sure don’t. But I can tell you this: the concept of Interdisciplinarity has helped me come to an answer, and that is to use your resources. Continue reading “Interdisciplinarity and Choosing A Masters Program”
Interdisciplinarity And Education Go Hand In Hand
Since the first day of this semester, the definition and concept of “interdisciplinarity” has become more prominent in my academic life. Being a part of a liberal arts college, it’s almost essential to take ideas from previous experiences or studies and apply it to what is currently being taught.As students we can all relate to this, but I now know that the concept of being literate in multiple disciplines is critical to becoming aneducator. My education 215 class has multiple discussions that provide 3-D perspectives on ideas that span multiple topics. For example, the first thing my professor went over with our class was the definition of what it means to be truly “literate” in a field of study that people are eventually going to instruct others in. Continue reading “Interdisciplinarity And Education Go Hand In Hand”
“Z is for Zulus” and A Whole Lotta Maybe’s
Bare with me here:
Considering that this is a class where the intertwining of concepts is celebrated, then maybe it is what can lead us to our closure from an abrupt ending. Given, the one sentence “Z is for Zulus” can be quite abrupt, maybe it is an ending after all. Continue reading ““Z is for Zulus” and A Whole Lotta Maybe’s”
On Linguistics and Literariness
On page 76 of Interdisciplinarity, a new section begins and discusses semiology, which is defined as “a science that studies the life of signs within society”. Upon looking at the necklace of ox horns that I wear everyday, I discovered a connection between it and the symbols at the beginning of each section in Cane. Continue reading “On Linguistics and Literariness”
Humans And Our Relationship With Space
The act of going outside and trying to determine whether a space is acting upon myself or if I am acting upon it caused quite a bit of soul searching for me. As a writer, I am struck by the ideas that come into my head, because those are the things that inspires me to write. So in asking the question, “Are writers moved by their surroundings, or do they move their surroundings to fit their world view?”, my answer is clear. People’s surroundings are indefinitely moving them, which means that there is a constant supply of inspiration. Continue reading “Humans And Our Relationship With Space”
An Attempt to Connect The Bacchae and Interdisciplinarity
While both texts are fairly different, as one is fiction and non-fiction, I can’t help but to notice a common feature of The Bacchae by Euripedes and Interdisciplinarity by Joe Moran. Given, I may not have understood some of the concepts in both texts due to both of them using “big words” and with Interdisciplinarity being a bit of a dry read at some parts, but I do see a common theme. In both the Introduction of Interdisciplinarity and the entire play of The Bacchae, I noticed that in both cases, there seems to be a struggle to find what should take priority over the latter, may it be the worship of Dionysus or deciding which field of study is more important/ how to create a wholesome study of multiple or single subject fields. While Euripedes certainly went about solving this issue by tearing a man apart (literally), Moran simply describes the academic power struggle that occurred over time. One could also argue that they are also both a kind of history lesson, as Euripedes, like Moran, alludes to events and people that a certain level of background information would help someone understand the text better. Unlike myself, who stopped reading both texts to “Google” many concepts and names while reading. More abstractly, one could say that the combination of both works could resemble the constant battle that academia and religion have, as one is written as a folktale, and the other like a research paper. A bit out there, I know, but it definitely crossed my mind as I attempted to decode the meaning behind each reading.