I GOT MY CARTE ETUDIANTE TODAY– I AM OFFICIALLY A STUDENT AT LA SORBONNE NOUVELLE!
I REGISTERED FOR 5 FILM STUDIES COURSES TODAY WITHOUT A HITCH!
I AM REALLY, REALLY REALLY REALLY EXCITED!!!!!
Yeah.
So what courses did I register for, you ask?
I made my schedule such that I only have courses on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Long weekends! I really hope to be able to travel a bit, so this is perfect.
Tuesdays: Korean Cinema, Economics of Hollywood Cinema (sounds difficult, but apparently the professor is nice and grades well, and there’s no math hooray!), and my MICEFA French grammar course
Wednesdays: Sound and Cinema: Realism vs. Stylization (This doesn’t translate that well, does it? Oh well. I’m so excited for this one in particular)
Thursdays: History of Contemporary Cinema, British Cinema (this one’s in English! Hey, I’m registered for 5 classes in French, I need a break.)
Originally I was going to register for too many classes, see which ones I liked best, and drop the rest. But as of now, ALL of these courses together will transfer back to Brooklyn College as only 13 CREDITS. Don’t even ask, it has to do with contact hours per semester. Even though these courses will be 100% more challenging for me than any class I could take at Brooklyn College–they’re in French, geared towards French students–since we only meet 2 hours a week per class, these courses just can’t transfer as 3 credit courses. BORING DETAILS I KNOW. UGH.
I know I’ll feel different next week after actually sitting through these classes and being mentally exhausted just from trying to pay attention and take notes, BUT… as of now I don’t want to drop a SINGLE one.
Let’s talk about my Korean Cinema class for a moment. I wasn’t even going to take this class originally, but I needed one more class because of the whole credit situation. I barely know anything about Korean cinema (or Asian cinema as a whole for that matter), so I thought, hey, why not, I’ll really learn something.
I signed up for the class this afternoon and when I got home I decided to google the professor out of curiosity. As it turns out he’s a critic for Les Cahiers du Cinema, an influential film magazine (basically, it was the meeting place for all the directors of the French New Wave…so…yeah), and he was Editor-in-Chief from 1998 to 2002. I won’t lie, I am sort of freaking out right now. This isn’t even a lecture class, by the way. I think there are going to be about 40 students in the class. That’s really small for a French university.
WISH ME LUCK! I start Tuesday.
