Well then, time for a whole new semester of learning. many of you know I extremely dislike learning in a class room, and would much rather prefer to learn hands on, "grepping the code". Oh well, either way, here's a look at what I think will be the best semester so far!
Arabic
This is one of my two majors, and I'm taking four classes (12 credit hours).
- Multimedia Arabic
- This will be reading newspapers, watching TV broadcasts, etc. Anything dealing with Arabic in different medias.
- Intro to Arabic Linguistics
- This will be an introduction to everything Arabic in linguistics. If you've taken a linguistics course, just pretend that instead of English words you work with, it's Arabic. How sounds are formed, to sentence syntax, if I'm correct.
- Arabic, Third Level, Second Hald
- This will be the LAST pure Arabic course I have to take... I hope. It is the end of formal Arabic teaching at IU, and after that I will be studying course in dialects, and other fun stuff.
- Iraqi Dialect, Second Half
- This will be a fun course taught by the professor (Iraqi) who taught my Individual Readings course last semester. I've already started teaching myself it, since I tested in, and Iraqi is actually quite fun. More on that as I do it.
Computer Science
This is my other major, and I spent last semester on a bunch of CS work, so this semester I take it easy.
- Intermediate Symbolic Logic
- This will be my boring course of the semester, fulfilling the math requirement of my CS degree. I did happen to like Introdution to Symbolic Logic (what boolean mathematician doesn't?!) and hope to be pleasently surprised.
Informatics
This was by invitation and I'm not sure if the following course will apply towards my CS major, as it's in the School of Informatics, not CS.
- Applied Cryptography
- This will be a graduate (!!) course dealing mainly with phishing and counter measures by a very smart guy in the Informatics department. I wrote a paper on him (here's a link, warning, it's a pdf file) and his work so far here. I expect this will be a very good course with hands on material and a chance to participate in phishng studies done here.
Other
Um... D, none of the above.
- Whoops, dropped that class, nevermind
EDIT: I'd give more information, but the school's website is broken AGAIN! If you guys ever have a chance to work for/use software by PeopleSoft, turn it down!
