OMG! I'm in love with my newly chosen major!!

[bicentennial_baby]

So, I'm transferring into UMASS next year, and I decided to give my major choice another look, b/c I wasn't happy with the double major in polisci/something else idea...it just didn't fit what I want to do...So I poked around and came across this:

"The Social Thought and Political Economy Program (STPEC) is an interdisciplinary undergraduate program in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The STPEC Program encourages students to engage in a critical examination of society and to develop their own capacities for critical reading, writing, and thinking. STPEC students cross disciplinary lines to confront fundamental questions often ignored or neglected by traditional academic thought.

Many of the issues STPEC students explore involve relations between individuals and society. STPEC courses may deal with issues such as freedom and the state, structural inequality in the economy, work and work relations, the relationship of Western to non-Western cultures, the interrelationship of racism, sexism, and class oppression, the psychodynamics of politics, and theories of social change.

As STPEC students acquire an understanding of social relationships, they frequently develop a need to put their knowledge to work. Thus the Program also encourages its students to involve themselves in practice as well as theory by enrolling in internships as part of their undergraduate education, by playing a role in University and community affairs, and by assuming active responsibility for the shape of their own education within the STPEC Program."

I emailed the Program Director at 9 pm tonight, and she already emailed me back, asking me to come in for a visit! Woo-hoo! I'm so excited and happy!!

:bounce: :headbang: :bounce:

[Ilsa]

1. Congratulations! That sounds like a fabulous

and interesting program. I wish I had been mature enough for such a program at your age (I'm assuming you're 28=29 or in early thirties).

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Yeah, 28

I was a bit of a late starter, but I'm motivated as hell!! This is exactly what I was looking for!

[intheflow]

7. You're not a late starter.

You're bringing life experience to your studies! :) Personally, I think it should be mandatory to take at least a couple years off between high school and college so you can fully appreciate the worth of an education.

I'm from that area originally. My son (still out there) plans on going to UMass for grad school in 2006. Congrats on finding your bliss!

[bicentennial_baby]

8. Thanks

I agree, from what I see the older students seem to take things more seriously in general than the younger ones.

Good luck to your son! I'll probably stay at UMASS for my masters, in Labor Studies.

[sparky_in_ma]

2. Congrats!

UMass-Amherst is a good school. I actually graduated from there, many,many,many years ago.:D I stayed here, you'll love the atmosphere in the Northampton-Amherst area.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Oh I'm here already

I'm in Gfld... We just stole Amherst's awesome video store 'Video to Go'... howdy neighbor! :hi:

[sparky_in_ma]

5. One town north

of Northampton. Howdy:hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Shameless Vanity Kick

:kick:

[roguevalley]

9. most excellent. if you're going to do something for 50 years, enjoy it.

[bicentennial_baby]

10. So true

I'm psyched...your doggies are cute!

[sundog]

11. right on bb

:hug:

[bicentennial_baby]

12. hey you!

how's business? :hi: