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All the Awesome Classes I Took at UW

All of the classes listed below were amazing classes with awesome professors. Their lectures stretched your thinking and the works we discussed were always fascinating. 
As a history major focusing in Ancient Greece and Rome, my final line up of all the classes and the experiences I have had were broad and amazing.
 
Comparative Literature Courses
1) Bad Love: Read pieces and watched films that had to do with love, alternative sex, and lots of of good weird and bad weird things. 

2) Lox, Sex, and Murder: Read lots of classics and non-classics, had awesome lectures, and wrote fun/creative papers.

3) Superheros: Read comics, watched movies, and analyzed superheros 

4) Third Cinema: Watched and read pieces that are third, influences of third, and others. 

Literature:
1) Required Literature Course but focused on “The Strange” 

History Courses: 
1) Roman Empire

2) Age of Augustus

3) Socrates Seminar
- Wrote my final paper: “Socrates as Scapegoat”  

4) History of Sexuality Seminar 
- Wrote my final paper: “A Woman’s Right to Pleasure: Sex and the City and Third Wave Feminism” 

5) American History of Film

6) Modern European History, taught through film

7) Medieval Mughal Empire

Art History: 
1)Medieval and Renaissance

2) Art History Special Topics: Picasso
- would study Picasso pieces in class 
- every Friday would go to the SAM and see these pieces in real life

Other:
1) Sociology of The Family
2) Intro to Law, Society, and Justice: Focus on Whaling  
3) Space and Space Travel: Built a Rocket
4) The Planets: Professor was hilarious
5) Psychobiology of Women  
6) American Ethnic Studies/Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies: Building Scenes/Making Communities: Girls and Boys Play Indie Rock

Awesome Experiences/Projects:
1) Early Fall Start:
- Came to start college about a month early to take one class and settle into the new school
- Class: Bad Love
- Met some of my best friends who I am still close with now during that time
- Had an awesome first roommate
- Explored the campus and Seattle
- Was so excited and grateful for that early start time

2) Studied abroad in Greece:
- leahlearnsgreek.tumblr.com 
- filmed first documentary/will re-edit this year
- traveled all over
- Classes: Intro to Greek, Greek Culture, and Greek/Albanian Relations
- Saw some of the most amazing sites in Greek history 
- Made amazing friends
- Every day was like a dream  

3) Home Alive Documentary:
- homealivedocumentary.tumblr.com
- stemmed out of the Indie Rock Class
- have the honor of helping to document and tell the important story of a Seattle based grassroots, self-defense collective and meeting some of the most amazing people
- doing this project with one of my best friends whom I truly love and respect and made a new friend who is also a bad ass editor
- learning from successes, mistakes, and challenges
- continuing the project and cannot wait for the final result 

4) Dawgie Style on Rainy Dawg Radio
- dawgiestylerdr.tumblr.com
- had a sex, relationship, and dating talk show during my last quarter of Senior Year
- discussed all different kinds of topics with wonderful guest hosts and my awesome co-host and new awesome friend
- learned a lot from other people and had people tell me it stretched their thinking as well
- went out with bang…*lolz*

5) Officer for Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society)
- Had fun little events
- Presented my two papers mentioned about
- Went on a road trip this year with two fellow officers, who are amazing, and have a great get away weekend for the conference


University of Washington was my first choice and my dream school. It was perfect for me and I was not disappointed at all. I do not regret a single thing and would not have it any other way. I have had the honor of learning from some incredibly amazing professors, some of who I will continue to have relationships with after graduation. 

I have made wonderful friends and have fallen in love with the city of Seattle that I was lucky enough to call my home for four years. 

My Birthday, Graduation, Europe, Finishing the Documentary, and Life are all just around the corner. Thank you to everyone who made these past four years absolutely wonderful.

CONGRATS CLASS OF 2012! WE DID IT! SO PROUD TO BE A HUSKY!