themightybee: (School - An Apple A Day)
My courses for the Spring semester:

  • Introduction to Helping & Human Services - This is the first in a sequence of required courses for internship placement in all Human Services Concentrations. This course provides a working familiarity with theories of human development and will explore values and helping skills that are generic to the fields of teaching and human services. Students examine personal and professional attitudes, values and beliefs that correlate with high effectiveness and will review current research for an understanding of social and behavioral issues critical to effective teaching and helping. Tools to assist students in self assessment, use of a sequential model for helping and the development of critical reading and reflective writing skills are provided.

  • Characteristics & Needs of Special Populations - This course examines origins, indicators and issues related to children and adults who have significant differences mentally, physically, socially, behaviorally or in the area of communicative skills. Students gain a working knowledge for recognizing and responding appropriately to the needs of children and adults in a variety of educational and caregiving environments. Educational modifications and placement alternatives are discussed.

  • Educational Psychology - This course deals with the application of psychological principles to preschool, elementary, special needs and secondary level classroom situations. Focus is on four topics essential to effective teaching: human development, learning and instruction, motivation and evaluation.

I'd like to take at least one other class so I can catch up, but with my two jobs, it's hard to find the time to fit one in. Now that I know what I want to do, I'm actually excited for this. It's not going to be a cake walk, but I'm ready for the hard times. Bring it on, bitches! \o/
themightybee: (Enchanted - Storybook)
I realize my last entry, posted all of ten minutes ago, centered on books, but I didn't want this to get lost in my rage.

My modern lit class is nothing but reading assignments, and since I've felt lost since finishing Middlesex (which I have a lot to say about at a later time), I am LOVING the syllabus.

I picked up the books I'd need and my mommy paid for them, so here's what I'll be working on until December:

  • Rapture by Susan Minot
  • Love Poem by Anne Sexton (my girl!)
  • The Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway
  • Ariel by Sylvia Plath
  • Rubaiyat by Nazim Hikmet
  • After Dark by Haruki Murakami
  • House of Meetings by Martin Amis
  • At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
  • On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
  • Memoirs of a Muse by Lara Vapnyar

My first assignment is to read six of the Ernest Hemingway short stories. I love love love this class.
themightybee: (Default)
One final down and two to go. If I make it to Friday I promise to stop assaulting you with illiterate fangirling.

Okay, so that's a total fucking lie.

Anywho, instead of studying I made a bushel of icons. Some slightly older ones that a few of you have asked about may be in there, fyi. ;)

16 - The Office (show & cast)
09 - Daily Show/Colbert Report
02 - Heroes
02 - The Simpsons
02 - Arnett/Poehler



The rest are here.
themightybee: (The Office - TUNA!!!)
Johnson & Wales is hosting a Casino Night in October.

Oh, LOL.

ETA - If some of you have noticed that you can't reply to my posts, it's because I made it so that only people who are on my friends list can comment. I've already (voluntarily) spoiled myself stupid for Harry Potter, but I don't want any of my lovelies accidentally happening upon them in my journal. Sorry, spammers!

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