Courses

by the_classicist 10 Replies latest jw friends

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  the_classicist

  Since a pretty good number of you have been to university and since the Arts Academic Advisors are always booked, I'll pose this question:

  What do you think of my course schedule for next year (keep in mind, my only real goal is learning; I'm not working towards a job):

  - Latin (6 credits)
  -Classical Greek (6)
  -Classical Myth and Religion (6)
  -Linguistic Theory and Analysis I (3)
  -Linguistic Theory and Analysis II (3)
  -History of the Christian Church (6)

  Now the only important ones, to me, are the top three, since I'm majoring in Classics. Or I could do something like this (note: assume top three is in there):

  -Logic and Critical Thinking (3)
  -Knowledge and Reality I (3)
  -History... or Linguistic... from above.

  Or as a third choice, I could take out Classical Myth and Religion and put in those two philosophy courses above and the Linguistic ones too.
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  talesin

  t_c

  Latin is great, I took it for three years and loved it ... it`s so symmetrical, too bad we don`t really know how it was spoken ...

  I`d go with this :

  -Logic and Critical Thinking (3)
  
  -Knowledge and Reality I (3)
  
  -History... or Linguistic... from above.

  tal
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  Sad emo

  I reckon these would be most helpful because a lot of the Classical Greek and the myth and religion is based around rhetorical principles (even the apostle Paul used it)

  -Logic and Critical Thinking (3)
  
  -Knowledge and Reality I (3)

  then with the linguistics if you want a totally classical line

  or the church history if you want to develop along the religious line

  Good luck - rather you than me, I'm currently on a theology degree!
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  the_classicist

  First of all, thanks to all for the suggestions so far.

  Good luck - rather you than me, I'm currently on a theology degree!

  Good luck with that too. What kind of theology degree? (coincidentally, I'm interested in doing that, perhaps Anglican Studies at Regent College or something else).
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  Sad emo

  Thanks for your good wishes.

  It's 'just' general Christian theology. I decided not to specialise into any particular strand (there was a choice of Biblical, church history or applied) so I'm getting a good mix of modules ranging from studying individual books of the Bible to the heavy doctrinal/systematic theology - which does have a Reformed slant to it.
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  richard

  Any chance you can add sociology of religion? Gives a good insight in meaning and functioning of religious institutions.
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  Balsam

  I'm not in college as I can't afford it and too old for the stress. But some of the college lectures courses I am listening and learning from The Teaching Company has been:

  Historical Jesus

  Philosophy of Religion

  Ancient Religions of the Meditarranean World

  New Testement Studies

  Old Testement Studies

  World Religions, Judaism, Chrisitanity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam

  If I could go to college and major in something it would be in working toward a degree in religion and become a teacher. I find it utterly fascinating. Too bad I wasted all my prime years with the JW's.

  Hope you enjoy all those wonderful and eduational courses. Good for you. Education is the door to thinking.
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  Mary

  Sounds excellent! I'm also majoring in Arts.......I've already taken some of the courses you've mentioned, and I plan on taking more. There's one called Psychology of Religion and New Age Cults (guess which religion will be covered in this course?? I outta get 100% in this one!)

  I would also recommend maybe taking a couple of courses in Archaeology, if you're majoring in Classics as the two are closely related.

  Good luck!
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  the_classicist

  Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I've kind of melded all the suggestions into one:

  Latin
  Classical Greek
  Hellenistic Greek
  Linguistic Theory and Analysis I & II
  Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
  Introduction to Classical And Near-Eastern Archaeology

  Back to my summer re-learning of Greek...
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  AlanF

  If you want a sequence, I'd take these first:

  Logic and Critical Thinking
  
  Knowledge and Reality

  After those, the others you listed are pretty much up for grabs, with obvious sequential limits.

  AlanF