32 weeks to go

Just had a marathon first day of Honours classes, and I'm not even enrolled in any Monday classes yet!

As often happens, a course that was moved to avoid a clash with two other courses, now clashes with only one course, which I, of course, am enrolled in. I enrolled in:

• Global Governance
• Global Civil Society
• Bureaucratic Power in Western Democracies
• Sociology of Political Change
  

...which sounded like a good combo. But the last two clash, so in this first week I will be visiting every class and 'testing' each one as much as possible.

Today I visited:

• Comparative Politics: Europe (which is really more of an IPE course, using European examples to explain marketisation of societies)
• Politics of International Migration (very interesting and under-explored topic, of special interest to me via my semi-accidental background in censuses)
• Insurgency and Counter-insurgency (looking at theories and examples of non-traditional political violence)

All of them were great, which shows how impossible it is to judge course content, approach, and teaching method from a course description...I had initially passed over all of these!

So now I am in quite a happy dilemma. After being satisfied with the four courses I originally chose, I am now in the difficult but also encouraging position of potentially picking, and being happy with, ANY of the Victoria POLS/INTP Honours courses. What a programme!

32 weeks to go until Monday October 15th, the blanket deadline for all Pols Honours written work.