Wait a minute...why did I come here again?
My classes don't suck!
I came to Canada with 4 subjects that I thought could be interesting but ended up with 2 that could be fantastic and 2 that seem to be pretty good if not standard law subjects. The subjects I'm most excited about basically revolve around reading and discussing a couple of texts in class then writing papers about them. The texts involved are De Toqueville's Democracy in America and three Aristotellian essays: Politics Book VI, On Sophisitical Refutation, On the Soul.
The class's only 12 people of which a few are on exchange. I can only imagine most of the exchange students are as delighted with the format as I am. The link with Law is that we are attempting (in our papers) to find modern legal applications of the ideas presented in the texts..
I really think these will be interesting and quite challenging to do well. The texts are pretty dense but I enjoy thinking so hopefully I will be able to manage. The lecturer is the same for both and is very enthusiastic about the whole process and this seems to rub off on the rest of the class.
My other two subjects are a bit more traditional for law. Secured transactions is pretty straight forward and a lot of the content and ideas seem to be the same that I've picked up in trusts, property and corporations law. For the non-legally minded a secured transaction is a debtor/creditor relationship where the creditor takes an interest (e.g. mortgage) in property of some kind to secure their financial interest.
The Law and Medicine is my other subject and seems to have a wide scope of interest from policy to the more mundane details of the law. The lecturer is teaching it for the first time so it should be interesting.
Overlaid in all this study hubbub was the fact that it snowed on Thursday and Friday which is very rare for Vancouver, the shots you have already seen were taken around campus including the Nitobe Memorial Garden which is a traditional japanese garden. I thought it looked particularly amazing covered in snow.
Many snowfights were observed on my travels about campus. Snowmen popped up overnight, one of them partly my own work...
I came to Canada with 4 subjects that I thought could be interesting but ended up with 2 that could be fantastic and 2 that seem to be pretty good if not standard law subjects. The subjects I'm most excited about basically revolve around reading and discussing a couple of texts in class then writing papers about them. The texts involved are De Toqueville's Democracy in America and three Aristotellian essays: Politics Book VI, On Sophisitical Refutation, On the Soul.
The class's only 12 people of which a few are on exchange. I can only imagine most of the exchange students are as delighted with the format as I am. The link with Law is that we are attempting (in our papers) to find modern legal applications of the ideas presented in the texts..
I really think these will be interesting and quite challenging to do well. The texts are pretty dense but I enjoy thinking so hopefully I will be able to manage. The lecturer is the same for both and is very enthusiastic about the whole process and this seems to rub off on the rest of the class.
My other two subjects are a bit more traditional for law. Secured transactions is pretty straight forward and a lot of the content and ideas seem to be the same that I've picked up in trusts, property and corporations law. For the non-legally minded a secured transaction is a debtor/creditor relationship where the creditor takes an interest (e.g. mortgage) in property of some kind to secure their financial interest.
The Law and Medicine is my other subject and seems to have a wide scope of interest from policy to the more mundane details of the law. The lecturer is teaching it for the first time so it should be interesting.
Overlaid in all this study hubbub was the fact that it snowed on Thursday and Friday which is very rare for Vancouver, the shots you have already seen were taken around campus including the Nitobe Memorial Garden which is a traditional japanese garden. I thought it looked particularly amazing covered in snow.
Many snowfights were observed on my travels about campus. Snowmen popped up overnight, one of them partly my own work...
posted by denny at 6:48 PM
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The Aristotle subject sounds interesting. (Can't say the same for secured transactions.. enjoy) Then again, that 3rd year subject Jurisprudence turned out to be a drag. (for me, anyway)
It snowed like crazy on me while riding to work this morning. What the? There's only so much of this crazy northern hemisphere weather us Brissie boys can take.. Still, I'd rather have snow than rain when it comes to riding to work. Snow is far superior.. you just brush it off. No soakage!
Sorry for the longest comment ever.. I don't have a single class this week.
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