This semester, I’ll be taking three classes:

  • Hi 660: American Social History Since 1865
  • Hi 614: Philosophy of History
  • En 522: Seventeenth Century Literature

Each of these courses seems to be a good fit for my last semester. I’m weak in both social history and in more recent American history, so American Social History Since 1865 should help remedy that weakness. I haven’t taken much literature–probably much less than I should have–but Seventeenth Century Literature should be a step in the right direction. I choose it over other literature classes because it should provide background for studying seventeenth-century religion and because the Donne and Herbert are my favorite poets. Philosophy of history will, I hope, let me deepen and summarize my understanding of history as I complete one graduate program and prepare to begin another.