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[prairiedaun]

I'm so torn over whether to do s double honours in linguistics and cultural anthro or to just do an honours in linguistics and a 4-year in anthro. The head of the anthro department said it wouldn't matter all that much when applying for grad schools, but I don't even know at this point if I am going to grad school I want to, but at this point I'm not even sure where I'm going to get the money to go to school this year.

Alright. If I do the double honours I either have to take my special topics course as a full year course and get an A+, or as a 3 hour course and another course in the winter and get marks combining 7. As well, I'd need to take Chaucer (6hrs.), textual analysis (3 hrs), special topics(3 hrs) and find another 3 hour honours cours in English somewherecontemporary linguistic theory, which I'd forgotten I had to take anyway. Maybe do a 6 hour special topics course instead, or see if I can take Discourse analysis at the honours level (arrgh).

If I take the single honours route, I'd drop Chaucer, pick up special topics and Discourse analysis and have the option of not doing my anthro course at all this year (but I really want to do it as a sort of capstone to my anthro academic career).

Oh wise friendslist, what should I do? I'm at wits end.

Comments

[greek-amazon.livejournal.com]

I say go for the double honours, with the split special topics course. Also, what is your icon from? O_o I love it.

[prairiedaun.livejournal.com]

I'm leaning towards doing the singl honours/4 year at the moment, if only for monetary reasons. I'll have to take extra courses that I won't really need in the future (such as Chaucer and whatever physical/arch course I'd end up in in the winter) and frankly, I'm not sure where I'm going to get the money. Is it too late to apply for a student loan?

The quote comes from IQ, when Einsteins academic buddies are talking with a younger priggish colleague about the psychological experiments he's doing on his students.

[greek-amazon.livejournal.com]

I'm... not sure. There are student loan booths set up right now, so I'm thinking probably not... >_>

Heeheehee. Well it's a great quote.

[queensugar.livejournal.com]

I know nothing about high level academics. I just don't get it. But I'll take a stab in the dark and say do the single honours. If it doesn't mean much in the way of lessened opportunities for you, it may be worth it for the slightly reduced pressure?

[prairiedaun.livejournal.com]

I think that's what I'm going to do. Part of it is (and this sounds really bad) I wanted to be able to say that I had a double honours- because really, I'm learning pretty much the same stuff anyway. In fact, if I were doing the double honours I'd be taking fewer linguistics courses and more regular english courses, so I'd be spending even less time focussing on what I wanted.

At least this way I won't have to freak out over that Chaucer. But now I'm kicking myself for not having to take Old English Lit last year. Aargh. Oh well, I enjoyed that class quite a lot. Looking back, I've taken a lot of courses that I didn't have to, and aren't going to count for anything (Intro to French Lit, I'm looking at you.)

[madamerotten.livejournal.com]

I really wish i had a decent suggestion or magical advise, but i dont. if what you want to do most is linguistics, and taking a double major involves doing LESS of that... if i understand all of waht youve said, then go do the linguistics.

[prairiedaun.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Thanks babe.