Self-Directed Humanities Degree

I’ve already got a Bachelor of Science in Math and I did it while taking Philosophy courses to keep myself from becoming a robot. However, as an adult woman, mother, friend and partner, I find myself turning more to literature, music and creative expression for meaning and intellectual sustenance. I don’t think I need to go back to school properly for another degree since the internet is rich with experts and their expertise. Here I’m documenting this engagement with ideas (my notes and journals are kept offline for me.)

Online Literature/Writing Courses

• How Great Science Fiction Works
• Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature
• Brandon Sanderson’s 2020 Creative Writing Lectures at BYU
• Write About Anything
• Writing Great Fiction
• U of T School of Continuing Studies – The Great Escape: Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction

Books on Writing

• Imaginative Writing – Janet Burroway
• Writing Fiction – Janet Burroway
  • The Tower and the Net – Janet Burroway
• The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction – Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Heroine’s Journey – Maureen Murdock
• Wonderbook – Jeff Vandermeer
• Steering the Craft – Ursula K. LeGuin
• Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style – Virginia Tufte

Learning Music

• Klezmer Fiddle Tunes – 5%
• Mel Bay’s Complete Irish Fiddle Player – 50%
• RCM Grade 3 Violin – 100%

More Language

My goal is to be able to read Ovid in the original Latin.

• Ovid in Translation
• Ovid in the Original Latin
• Latin Courses on Memrise