Nicholas Latimer - Introduction - Week 0 - SPAN312
Dear class, Hope everyone is enjoying a sun-shining weekend! My name is Nicholas, I'm a psychology major in my third year, interested in health research. I've enjoyed the path so far, which also means that I haven't gotten to experience any classes like ours just yet. I've taken a couple writing-based classes, but few that require as much reading as I will challenge myself with this term. I signed up for this class essentially because I heard fantastic reviews about our professor, and that his teaching/course style was very unique & fun - which was a no-brainer after seeing that it would satisfy the lit requirements for my program! Kicking off the first week, I can already see from lecture 1 that the priorities of the classroom are not just to say the right thing, but to think freely and open-mindedly about the content of our literature - which is something I've found more or less rare in my studies so far. So I suppose my expectation for the course is that I a...