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I think what attracted me to it was the scope of the program itself.
It's three-thousand years of Western Civilization kind of put together all in one program.
And, pretty much, in it you could choose any type, or any
specific area that you want to study so the program is fully customizable.
I think the reason that I chose the program was because of the nuances of it.
When I was looking into master schools, it seemed like everything had
to be really defined and very specific as to what I wanted to study,
potentially, for the rest of my life. And here, at the Humanities Program, I feel
like everything is very individualized. And I truly catered my major to what I
want to do... I think probably the best classroom experience I had was the seminar.
Just a small group of students, interacting with each other as well as with
the professor. And, of course, knowledgeable professors.
The mannerisms, the teaching styles of the veteran professors that we have here
were directly translated, passing on to me a little bit.
So, I definitely see that, again, in the classroom, over and over again. I think
those are very effective strategies that they use. And, I think that's
one of the biggest benefits that I have actually received from going to the seminars.
The support from the teachers, when I was going to form a thesis committee.
I really didn't even have to think about who I want in on it. You know, it was just
so obvious that I connected with
so many professors, but, you know, a few very deeply and everybody is so supportive
and in the program that they were just right they were ready to help me when I asked.
I think the main draw of the Humanities Program for me is the breadth of the knowledge
and everything intertwined so much that to me it was really
representative of almost the same kind structure as the human mind and the
human experience and what we go through and that were not just learning one
subject and we're just affected by one thing.
We're really inundated with all this knowledge and all of these
pulls in different directions. There are these nuances that really
make the programs so richÉ Absolutely. The synthesis
and the totality of everything we're learning finally coming together is just
absolutely fascinating. Kind of like the eureka moment.
You see that everything intertwines. You use that knowledge everywhere.
absolutely. And you see in the six-hundred level courses the electives and everything else.
The definite progression. You start with classic Greek, you go to the
Renaissance, move on to the industrial age and then finally modern. And, absolutely,
I'm looking to get into Ph.D. programs couple years down the road and definitely my path is very open.
It could branch in different directions, again history philosophy and
everything else or a combination of all three.