jackiemarie90 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 I'm taking two stem classes and one history class! Help me stay focused!! @__@ History looks interesting, it's Commodities Histories, from Sugar to Cocaine, and it's in a seminar class specifically for history majors. And the readings look interesting. Honestly the history classes here are amazing. I just get sad I can't dedicate my full time to them since a history degree can't go to far. As for the classes I'm taking for my minor, Statistics 88 and Data Structures with Java. 😐 Everyone is telling me how hard these classes are so far, and the 3 classes I've taken here in stem I've pretty much got a C+ in all of them. I hate that I have to take a lot of them at once since as a social science major I don't have a lot of the math prerequisites down. It can be fun, but since my time is limited here as a transfer, I have to take at least 3 classes a semester. For someone in DSP like me, 2 is more comfortable. But I want to take advantage of every opportunity that is presented to me here. Anyways, the pressure of shit around me is making it hard to focus. I am seeing a psychiatrist for the 1st time in awhile tomorrow, and I'm hoping they can provide the medication I need to tackle this stressful semester. I might be treating this place like a blog post, but I've been having insomnia for awhile now, and feel myself going a little crazy, and just want something to stable to do to help me get through this. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Metal Alchemist Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 If your major is history and your minor is computer science, how come this semester is so stacked with tech classes? Maybe it'd be less stressful if you took 2 classes toward your major and 2 toward your minor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackiemarie90 Posted August 27, 2020 Author Share Posted August 27, 2020 1 minute ago, Doom Metal Alchemist said: If your major is history and your minor is computer science, how come this semester is so stacked with tech classes? Maybe it'd be less stressful if you took 2 classes toward your major and 2 toward your minor? Technically the minor is data science. And it's really simple, you see I have already taken numerous history classes, and only needed 8 to graduate here. Normal transfers are given 2 years to complete their bachelor's, and when Cal looks for transfers, they look if you have had significant progress on your degree before applying. Now that I'm in DSP, I can extend my stay here by another year. So I'll be here 3 years, and my plan is to basically take 1 history class a semester (including summers) and working on my Data Science minor. Again, most of my prerequisites before applying were not stem related, in order to have that minor, I needed to take extra math classes that were not needed for history majors. Also data science requires a lot of statistic classes, while cs requires a lot of calculus. lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seight Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 8 hours ago, jackiemarie90 said: History looks interesting, it's Commodities Histories, from Sugar to Cocaine, ...go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackiemarie90 Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Seight said: ...go on. From the course description: What is a commodity? What does it do? Can it shape history? This course will introduce students to a recently popular genre of historical writing that concentrates on single commodities like cotton, sugar, bananas, and oil. We will think critically about conventions of the genre and whether commodities truly were important historical actors in the past or if historians give them power in retrospect. We will consider how commodity histories offer a unique approach to rethinking the boundaries of history. Our readings will not fit neatly into sub fields of history: political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, etc. They will traverse conceptual and geographic borders and raise questions about the relationship between the global and the local. Course themes include land, colonialism, capitalism, slavery, race, gender, citizenship, and consumerism. An exercise in historical thinking and writing, this class will deepen our understandings of the things we buy and sell and raise questions about our relationship to the people and places that produce the necessities and luxuries of our everyday lives. Edited August 28, 2020 by jackiemarie90 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poof Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 I took a class on cocaine in college too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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