Foreign Perspectives

The end of the intense overlap of courses seems to be coming all of a sudden as these things often appear to do.

Yesterday, I finally got around to completing the medicine, molecules and drugs (SK185) end of course assessment. One of the more interesting courses that I’ve done in a long time and one which reawakened my interest in chemistry.

I’ve two more weeks of reading of the world archaeology (A251) course to do after which there will “only” be the final TMA (due in two weeks) before getting going on the end of course assessment for it. That’s one course that I definitely wouldn’t want to even contemplate doing an exam for given the sheer volume of reading that the course entails. Having said that, it’s a course that gives a very interesting view of the development of agriculture, cities and empires throughout the world and over a massive timescale. I’d have preferred it if they’d ran the course over the usual 9 month timetable rather than the rather rushed five month one as there’s a lot in the course that I’d have liked to have had the time to properly absorb.

I also finished the reading for The empire of the microbes (S171) course on Thursday and made a reasonable start on the end of course assessment on Friday and, all being well, should get completed over the course of the next few weeks. Already I’m finding that there is a lot of cross-over with the main biology course (S204) which I’ve just started. Although in principle I could submit the January ECA I’m actually going to do the April one and just hang on to it ’til March when it can be submitted.

In principle that should “just” leave me with S204 (a major undertaking) and TT281 (hopefully a reasonably easy going course) to run through to May. If my calculations are correct the workload of those two combined should be somewhat less than that of the previous couple of months.