Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance (and makes it easy to put together a great schedule for your last semester of college). Here’s the graphical layout:

 

iCal view of my classes and prospective teaching schedule

iCal view of my classes and prospective teaching schedule

I had to take either an A&H or S&H along with two informatics electives to graduate, but I know I’ll be required to take 12 credit hours for certain grants and loans. A&H is Arts and Humanities and S&H is Social and Historical Studies. Most of the classes I’ve taken are Natural and Mathematical Sciences: N & M. I did a lot of searching for the last 3 hours to reach the 12 hour mark required for certain grants and loans.

AMST-A100 is called “What is America?” and talks about citizenship, national identity, and the social contract across the hemisphere (my A&H requirement).

FINA-D210 is called “Digital Art: Survey & Practice” and emphasizes learning to use digital media to produce original, creative art work.

INFO-I400 is a topics course on entrepreneurship in Informatics and will offer students the change to hear directly from numerous Indiana software executives.

INFO-I427 is called “Search Informatics” and covers techniques and tools to automatically crawl, parse, index, store, and search Web information.

Tuesdays I’ll hopefully be teaching two lab sections of CSCI-A216 again which is Digital Multimedia Concepts and Technologies.

Fridays are for me – boating, golf, road trips, and most likely sleeping!

I’m pretty excited for next semester, but just half way over with the current one. Better get on top of things so I don’t have to ruin my awesome schedule. Motivation! My XML file cataloging all the courses I’ve taken is updated, but I still have no idea how I want to visualize it…