Well the process for concentrations is over at last, and I am relieved to know my hard work is just what I needed to get accepted into the ENVS major program. That being said, I still am concerned about my concentration. The process was relatively hasty, and developed during a semester where I am still figuring out what I am interested in, and have been dealing with the difficulty of starting my second year at LC and having a rough semester. I can imagine myself going farther into my concentration and wanting to change certain things, like classes and topic content. Something that I have felt distinctly lacking from my LC education thus far are classes in gender and race/ethnic studies. As it stands, I will not have space in my schedule to take such things until the spring of my senior year, a very long time from now.
It hasn’t really been until recently that I have started realizing that I wouldn’t get the chance to take those kinds of classes, far too late to change the classes in my concentration. Not to mention that the current structure of my concentration would make it rather difficult to justify the taking of such classes as a component of my concentration. I am hoping that I can keep working on ways to make that happen, and hopefully be able to go through the process of adjusting my class load to fit my interests.
A lot of my interest in this is realizing that without my personal investment in the direction of my college education, LC has yet to make those classes a type of required material for students. For a long time I have trusted the functions of this school without realizing the types of things that I am missing or need to go after myself. While it would be exciting to have such classes a part of the general education at LC, I also need to have the desire to take such classes myself.