One class down...

Twelve to go. I just completed my first class on my way to a Master's Degree in Liberal Arts. The focus of this degree is Management and Leadership, but the Liberal Arts is what appeals to me. There were so many subjects I wanted to study in undergrad, and this graduate degree allows me to pretty much study in any subject. I need to have at least five classes in the Management sector, but that leaves the majority of classes to pick what I want to study. So it satisfied my academic curiosity, while also furthering my career. The first class I took was LIT 5000 - Masters of Modern Drama. I expected the class to be a normal literature class: read a bunch of novels, write a bunch of analytical papers. I picked it because my undergrad degree is English Lit. However, the class was about the theatre and plays. I have never studied plays, aside from Shakespeare and some minor plays in high school. This was unexpected, but still very insightful, and ended up being a fantastic class. And I got an 'A' for my work. On top of that, it stroked my creative side, in that it got me writing again. Our final was a twelve page continuation of a play we read in class, to which I chose to continue 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I would recommend you read this, or watch the black and white movie (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton... it was great). I'm waiting for the comments back from the professor, but I loved the assignment.

Next class: Issues and Ethics in Technology. A more serious class, a philosophy class, of which I have never taken a philosophy class before. This will be interesting.