Back to School

I've gotten a few questions about my program so here's an update on my scholastic endeavor(s).

I had three courses last term:
1. Theatre and Ireland
2. Contemporary Irish Theatre in Context (CITIC)
3. Strategies of Analysis

This term, all three of these continue and there is the addition of a fourth course: Movements in European Theatre (or something of a similar name).

The classes are pretty much what the titles indicate although you may have noticed that the titles are vague in their specificity. This is part of what is so fun about postgraduate work: a nod to a field of study (or multiple fields as the case may be) and the understanding that I as student will explore further as necessary. This is at once exciting and aggravating. Exciting because I am responsible for information as it is interesting to me; aggravating because no one actually explained this shift in consciousness/process. There's still reading for each course, the occasional lecture (depending on instructor and topic), and an assessment at the end of the term. (The assessment for CITIC is a 15-minute presentation with a 3,000 word paper which is basically the presentation text. The other three courses each require a 6,000 word paper.)

My courses finish this term and the third term is for working on my dissertation which is due at the end of August and will be 12-15,000 words.

I've been to three of my four courses so far. The fun part about this week is that our first paper is due by Friday; we get to finish articulating something from last term while we start taking in new information for this term. There are many manic students at the moment.