Graduate Course of Study: MLIS
My studies in librarianship focused on research, reference, instruction, and collection management in academic libraries, with the goal of becoming skilled in connecting students and faculty with accurate information in a timely fashion. However, I have also taken a number of courses that have allowed me to demonstrate the value of a trained librarian in a number of non-traditional settings.
The list below provides a synopsis of courses I have taken at the graduate level:- LIS 701: Introduction to Library and Information Science
- LIS 703: The Organization of Knowledge
- LIS 704: Reference and Online Services
- LIS 744: Government Information Resources
- LIS 745: Searching Electronic Databases
- LIS 748: Collection Management
- LIS 749: Crisis Informatics
- LIS 753: Internet Fundamentals and Design
- LIS 764: Library User Instruction
- LIS 770: Management of Libraries and Information Centers
- LIS 772: Academic Libraries
- LIS 799: Practicum
- LIS 899: Capstone Course
Graduate Course of Study: MA
In order to more fully understand the process of graduate-level academic research, as well as for personal interest, I began the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Northwestern University in the September of 2010. Though I have only recently begun the program, I have had the opportunity to explore several interesting topics in the humanities:
- IPLS 401: Seminar: Life and Culture in the US Mexico Borderlands
- IPLS 405: Ancient Political Though and its Modern Reception
- IPLS 401: Seminar: Urbanism and Urbanization
- IPLS 410: Introduction to Cultural Analysis
Undergraduate Course of Study
As an undergraduate, my primary area of study was Latin literature, though I also studied ancient Greek as supporting coursework for my BA in Classics. Below are some of the authors and topics with which I became acquainted during my undergraduate studies:
- The poetry of Catullus, Horace, and Ovid
- Piracy in the ancient Mediterranean
- The oratory of Cicero
- The historical works of Tacitus
- Issues of sex and gender in antiquity
- The drama and Stoic philosophy of Seneca
- Issues in proto-Indo-European linguistics
- Plato's philosophy of love
- Issues of textual criticism in Biblical/Koine Greek
As a secondary course of study I took my minor in Anthropology, with an emphasis on culture and ethnography. Major topics covered in my studies include:
- Indigenous religious practices in western Africa
- Ethnography of indigenous peoples of the Andes
- The archaeology of ancient Egypt
- The foundations of modern archaeological practice
- Cladistics and evolutionary theory
The variety of my experiences as an undergraduate led me to the study of several foreign languages. I have reading ability in Latin, ancient Greek, German, Spanish, and Swedish, and have had success navigating texts of other Romance and Germanic languages (e.g. Portuguese, Italian, and Norwegian) for the purposes of research with the aid of reference materials.