Course Reflection

I thought the Humanities 1100 class was an alright class. I didn’t find the nature issue unit particularly interesting or mind blowing and I felt that it didn’t make an impact on me. I liked the myth unit though because they were all so interesting to read and it was really fun making our own myth. It gave us a chance to really be creative. I didn’t like the religion section. I thought it would be really interesting to learn about but it wasn’t what I thought it would be. I was expecting to know the ins and outs of a religion, not read the text of it that I couldn’t understand. Needless to say, that unit was a letdown for me. I really liked the love and romance unit and my favorite quote in the entire class still comes from that unit. It goes like this, "Love, like war, is a toss-up. The defeated can recover, while some you might think invincible collapse; So if you’ve got love written off as an easy option you’d better think twice.  Love calls for guts and initiative.” (Ovid, pg. 295) I am a romantic so that’s why I liked this part so much. I didn’t much care for the race and gender section. I just feel like we talk enough about those subjects in history class that it was old material. Overall, I may not have been impressed with the topics we discussed in class, but I was sometimes happy with our discussions. I liked when we had deep, meaningful conversations that the class was actually involved in. I liked hearing new points of view from people that made me change my opinion or I liked finding out something new about someone. On a good day, this was a good class.