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[xeuyrawp]

Yeah, I'm single. Not ready for a relationship, yet, I think.

Ah, you sure know how to rip someone's heart out

 

[goldendawn]

I'm sorry - . You seem like a really interesting person, but I like girls.

 

[xeuyrawp]

I'm sorry - . You seem like a really interesting person, but I like girls.

Oh well, your loss, I dance a great Kalamatianos

 

[goldendawn]

Haha - ahh, but can you dance the Sousta?

 

[xeuyrawp]

Haha - ahh, but can you dance the Sousta?

No, for some unknown reason, I've never partaken in it...

 

[goldendawn]

I don't know many non-Greeks who know anything besides the Sirtaki anyway, hahaz.

 

[xeuyrawp]

I don't know many non-Greeks who know anything besides the Sirtaki anyway, hahaz.

How disappointing.

 

[goldendawn]

How disappointing.

The most disappointing part is that most also aren't interested in learning beyond the stereotype. But in the end it's fruitless to lament others indifference. It only really encourages me to advance my understanding further. So, what histories have you been studying?

 

[xeuyrawp]

The most disappointing part is that most also aren't interested in learning beyond the stereotype. But in the end it's fruitless to lament others indifference. It only really encourages me to advance my understanding further.

Yes! Thankyou.

So, what histories have you been studying?

Well, in uni (I'm only first year!) I've done this cool varient called 'Big History' (HIST112), which is a new kind of structure that examines change and huge trends on a global and universal scale. It started as a course being taught at Macquarie when a lecturer said 'we should start at the beginning... when is the beginning?' and yes, the lectures start at the big bang. The lecturer (Marnie Hughes-Warrington, who does a lot of HSC extension history stuff as well) brings in all these experts to guest lecture- her husband is a Dr. of physics and works with the CSIRO atomic clock. It's not so much about learning, but about showing that there is more than the nationalistic paradigm, so I think it's more about getting you to think differently. That being said, it's a historiography course.

I did this Greek Social history (AHST102) as well, which I found very interesting. A big complaint among classmates was that the temptation still existed to talk about battlefield and political history, which I had no problem straying away from. This course got me really interested in Greek, and although I'm doing Egyptology and Historiography, I might do some greek history after this degree.

An Egyptian archaeology course (AHST100) is necessary to do any egyptian stuff at macquarie, as they want you to learn about the evidence. It was pretty tedious but if you keep in mind that you're not just looking at artefacts, but a 4000 year old culture through a time warp, you're fine.

Those were last sem, this sem I'm doing another Hughes-Warrington course, History on Film (HIST243). The basic premise behind this is that more people get a historical picture through the filmic medium than through books. People are far more willing to go to a movie than read a book, and it could be argued that films have more historical meaning. Anyway, this is this sem and I'm loving it

AHST103 is Roman history from the time of Gracchi to Octavius/Actium, although the new Julius Caesar course means that we'll only study up till his power take. The lecturer's great, and lest I say that I might do some Roman history after my current degree?

AHST101 is crap. That's all I can say. There are a lot of different study modes; the personality study, the time frame, social history- this is a thematic study with Myth in the Ancient world as its theme. The tutors are all mish-mash historians, but the lecturer loves his greek Myth, and I wonder how the hell they're going to mark exams and tute papers on Egypt when they haven't studied it.

Anyway, that's it so far, but after my current degree, I might do some classical stuff.

 

[goldendawn]

That sounds reallly awesome. You are studying some fairly diverse histories. and I think that's good. It will help you to gain a wider knowledge base than your average 'specialist', and give you greater oppurtunities to criticise, to discern and to better form your own historical opinions. Even if you focus on Egyptology, it looks like all these extra units will add to your understanding of functions in history.

Well, in uni (I'm only first year!) I've done this cool varient called 'Big History' (HIST112), which is a new kind of structure that examines change and huge trends on a global and universal scale.

That's the kind of history I'd like to study. It's a good change from what I would consider to be the flawed and self-denying relatavism of "postmodernist" history. It sounds similar to Tonybee's approach, and I'm in love with anything that requires big picture synthesis!