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Mujhse Dosti Karoge
Jun. 29th, 2005 07:56 amYou've Got Mail meets a gender-switch Cyrano de Bergerac, with an extra helping of angst and a happy ending: ( Mujhse Dosti Karoge (Let's Be Friends) )
Jun. 29th, 2005
About time I made myself a Bollywood icon, so here it is.
Anyone have Bollywood soundtrack suggestions? Since I don't understand Hindi, the lyrics aren't as important as a bouncy sound. I like Bombay Dreams (which means I should probably get Taal and Dil Se), and the wedding music from Bend It Like Beckham.
Anyone have Bollywood soundtrack suggestions? Since I don't understand Hindi, the lyrics aren't as important as a bouncy sound. I like Bombay Dreams (which means I should probably get Taal and Dil Se), and the wedding music from Bend It Like Beckham.
Teaching Center - SF
Jun. 29th, 2005 10:17 amI'm not sure if it's better to read the books before or after listening to the lectures, but for anyone who's interested, this is the required reading list for the Teaching Company Science Fiction - Literature of the Technological Imagination course.
( Is anyone surprised that I've already read half of them or surprised that I haven't read them all? )
When I get around to doing this one, I'm also going to take the advice of a teacher from Torcon, who said that he had his classes read Tunnel in the Sky and Lord of the Flies back to back, so that they could compare/contrast two philosophies on survival situations.
( Is anyone surprised that I've already read half of them or surprised that I haven't read them all? )
When I get around to doing this one, I'm also going to take the advice of a teacher from Torcon, who said that he had his classes read Tunnel in the Sky and Lord of the Flies back to back, so that they could compare/contrast two philosophies on survival situations.
Some of the Teaching Company courses require more attention than others. For instance, I dug up the supplementary materials for The History of the English Language, whereas I'm merely listening to the CDs on Mozart and not even bothering to skim the attached coursebook. Three of them - Religious Wars in Europe, Henry VIII, and English History Tudor-Stuart - will be listened to in conjunction not with their own recommended readings, but with my pre-selected 19-book self-study reading.
But then I started looking at the coursebooks for Understanding Literature and Life, and *blink* Dang! Professor Arnold Weinstein is taking it all very seriously. In the coursebooks, Dr. Lerer ended the History of English lecture notes with "you should have learned" questions and suggestions for comparison. In Science Fiction, Prof. Rabkin provides a couple "Questions to Consider," like Is there, in your opinion, such a thing as fact? Considering Verne's questioning of our construction of facts.
In Literature and Life, Prof. Weinstein is outright giving quizzes. Cumulative essay question quizzes, three per lecture.
Explain, according to Blake, what comprises the voyage from innocence to experience in the modern world.
Compare and contrast Baudelaire's treatment of women in "The Little Old Women" with Whitman's depiction of city crowds in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry."
Summarize how "The Road Not Taken" offers a vision of the past contrary to that represented in Oedipus.
Give examples of where Bronte uses a fairytale environment to create a horrific effect.
Given that the course itself will take a significant effort to even listen to - it's 64 lectures, roughly 32 hours of audio alone - it's surprisingly tempting to actually treat this particular one exactly like a class and make a point of not only doing the reading but the homework.
That would make this one class a year-long project, if not longer, (life would have to come first!) but... it's really tempting.
But then I started looking at the coursebooks for Understanding Literature and Life, and *blink* Dang! Professor Arnold Weinstein is taking it all very seriously. In the coursebooks, Dr. Lerer ended the History of English lecture notes with "you should have learned" questions and suggestions for comparison. In Science Fiction, Prof. Rabkin provides a couple "Questions to Consider," like Is there, in your opinion, such a thing as fact? Considering Verne's questioning of our construction of facts.
In Literature and Life, Prof. Weinstein is outright giving quizzes. Cumulative essay question quizzes, three per lecture.
Explain, according to Blake, what comprises the voyage from innocence to experience in the modern world.
Compare and contrast Baudelaire's treatment of women in "The Little Old Women" with Whitman's depiction of city crowds in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry."
Summarize how "The Road Not Taken" offers a vision of the past contrary to that represented in Oedipus.
Give examples of where Bronte uses a fairytale environment to create a horrific effect.
Given that the course itself will take a significant effort to even listen to - it's 64 lectures, roughly 32 hours of audio alone - it's surprisingly tempting to actually treat this particular one exactly like a class and make a point of not only doing the reading but the homework.
That would make this one class a year-long project, if not longer, (life would have to come first!) but... it's really tempting.