*wibbles*

[mayhap]

Today I received many pieces of virus spam from NYU faculty, which was rather amusing. They also threatened to cancel my classes, which was less amusing, but my mother managed to pacify them until the damned loan forms have been signed by everyone involved and mailed to various locations.

I can't say as I was all that excited about my classes when I registered for them, but I've grown rather attached to them now, especially since I got into Gender and Sanctity in Medieval Art.



Gender and Sanctity in Medieval Art was pretty much the only class that excited me in the course listings, even before I finally tracked down this course description:

"This course gives an overview of the origin and development of sainthood from Early Christianity to the late Middle Ages as represented in literary and visual sources. It offers a special emphasis on the construction of gender in medieval society and focuses on the impact that the social and religious culture and the politics of medieval Western Europe might have had in the creation of images of male and female saints. Through comparative investigation of the lives of a small group of saints as they are recorded in written texts and represented in visual imagery, we will trace the correlation between text and image, and analyze the ways in which gender issues shaped the creation of sainthood."

A Cultural History of Computers, Robots and A.I., otherwise known as mayhap finally takes something that will count as for social studies credits, has a rather scary website which one can peruse if one is not scared away by the dropshadows on marble backgrounds, ugly green buttons, vintage email link gif, etc.

Parthenon Revisited: Myth, Cult and Ritual on Athenian Acropolis has a little more going for it in the department of quality of professor's websites. Hopefully it also lives up to the promise of being More Than Just an Art History Class, with a Gallatinesque spin on it. Hard to say, as there is no course description to be found.

[insert awkward pause wherein one tries to think of that last class, whatever it is this time]

Ah yes, Literatures, Tricksters and Cultural Exchange, the class that has a longer booklist than mine from last semester combined with all my other books for this semester. Of course, great quantities of them are optional, and I don't really know how things work in the Comp. Lit. dept, so I'll just be seeing about that too.

Comments

[aesc.livejournal.com]

OOooooh.... "Gender and Sanctity in Medieval Art"?! Can I take that with you? I'm willing to make the eleven-hour commute to do it :-D That sounds very cool.

[mayhap]

And it only meets once a week! Eleven hours once a week, no big deal, right? ;-)