04/04/03: The Final Stretch

[juju]

I've spent the last few days figuring out what classes I need to take in order to graduate in December. It's not a trivial exercise, it's actually pretty complicated. There are all sorts of weird requirements I've had to determine if I've fulfilled. Between my advisor and my dean, I think I've got it all sorted out.

One requirement is the overall hours. I'll have 103 after this semester, and I need 124 for the degree. So I'm going to take more classes than I normally would in order to finish by then. The load will be alleviated by summer classes, though.

Here's what I'm taking so far:


Summer I

Basic Course in the Arts: Music Lecture: Introduction to music. Lecture 3 hours per week providing experience in guided listening. Acquisition of vocabulary and certain fundamentals of music.

Summer II

Intermediate Spanish II: Continued development of basic speaking comprehension and writing skills and intensive development of reading skills.


Fall

Criminalistics: Forensic Sciences: Introduction to forensics focused on the scientific analysis of physical and biological evidence encountered in criminal investigations. Chemical, microscopic, biological, and observational techniques employed in the analysis of material evidence are described, discussed, and illustrated within an investigative framework. Topics include inorganic remains, fiber, tissue, human identification, fingerprints, tools, and weapons.

Linear Algebra: Systems of linear equations, vector spaces, linear transformations, matrices, determinants.

Object Oriented Programming and Design: In-depth coverage of the methods and techniques of object-oriented design and its applications to database and artificial intelligence.

Special Problems: This is a special class I set up with my advisor (who's also a teacher). Basically, I have one programming project that I do by myself for the whole semester. My advisor oversees my progress, and then gives me a grade for the completion of the program at the end of the semester. Isn't that neat? I even get to pick my project. I was thinking of doing a frontend in qt for the silc chat library. It'd be a chat program, basically, but it'd have encryption and all sorts of other neat stuff. I'm not sure if this is difficult enough for a semester project. I think it is, but it's my advisor that gets to decide, and I haven't told him my idea yet.

And then there's one other class I have yet to sign up for. I don't know what this one will be yet, but I'm told it can be anything. Even P.E. (yeah right). All I need it for is the hours.