And now begins my last semester at Wellesley. It has been a wild ride and I’m excited to see how my last semester goes. This post is going to focus on the courses I am taking.
The first one is Between Nature and Culture: Francophone Caribbean Literature and the Environment. This course is cross listed in the French and Environmental Studies departments. The class is taught in French and focuses on francophone Caribbean literature and the ways writers examine humans and the environment. Essentially how has the natural world influenced Caribbean people and vice versa. We look at the effects on the environment from various institutions like slavery and colonialism and how that shaped the Caribbean, both human and non-human. I am very excited about this course as I am able to study an area of the world that is important to me from a new lens.
The second is a seminar called The Body: The Race and Gender in Modern and Contemporary Art. This is my second art history class. The course focuses on artistic meditations on racial and gendered experiences in the world with a special focus on the Body. The course examines the ways that artists are critically engaged in their art and in questioning varied assumptions about themselves. I love art but haven’t spent much time engaging, so I am excited to see what I learn with this course.
My last course is an Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop. It is an English course where we read short stories and workshop our own. I am a writer. I like to write a bunch of different things but being in school makes it hard to write as much as I would like to. Taking this class helps to add structure and allow me to do creative writing for credit. I am looking forward to seeing what kind of work I am able to produce out of this.
I am also working on finishing my undergraduate thesis in Peace and Justice. In addition to these classes, I am also taking group guitar lessons and harp lessons.
You may have noticed that these classes are all very different or outside my major. I am using my last semester at Wellesley to do all the things that I have always wanted to do but never really had time for. This is something I recommend for all semesters. But as this is my last one, it is extra important that I actually do it. I am so glad that these are going to be my last classes at Wellesley. It seems like a good way to finish strong.
Until next time,
Laïssa