I signed up for summer classes the other day. I'll be taking a History class, and a class on Film Genre Studies. Here's the class description for the Film class:

This course examines the emergence of a category, or genre, of film within the context of film history. Each time the course is offered, it focuses on a particular genre (e.g., the western, gangster film, musical, film noir) and the societal and economic context in which it emerged. Students view representative films in order to identify and analyze techniques and conventions unique to the genre under consideration.

The only genre I'd rather not study is the western film. Otherwise, I'm excited. Too bad I'm taking that class in the late summer. My next class will be History of the US from 1876.

Most of the time when I tell people the classes I'm taken/have taken, they look confused and ask, "What is your major again?" It's still English. It's just that I'm fulfilling my IGETC/Associates requirements, and in doing so I've chosen the least annoying classes in each field. Which means I've taken Astronomy, History of Photography, Asian Art, and a few others that don't sound very much like classes for an English major. But, since I'm slowly working through school, I haven't really gotten to the point when I start only taking classes that focus on my major.