I wonder...

With only a few more days until class I can't help but wonder what the classes will be like, you can never be sure after all. Perhaps if you have had the professor before you have a good idea of what the policies will be, but that doesn't really tell what the courses will be like. Without knowing the other students one cannot know if it will be a friendly class, happy to give their imput and driving the class discussion and lessons on by themselves, or a silent class ready to curl into themselves at any tough question.
Mostly however I am wondering how this class will deal with the religious aspects of the course. Will it be like my early philosophy courses, where some believers were unable to question their beliefs for a moment and became angry and defensive at the idea of analyzing christianity, or will it be like a later course, where the participants are open to questioning what they believe and offer well formed arguments for their views, creating an interesting discussion or debate.
Maybe I've been in too many philosophy courses, this is a literature class after all, perhaps I will only see analyzing the bible as any other book and seeing it's effect on literature...hopefully. I'm not up for any more fights. That's the problem with courses that touch on religion or other topics. It is extremely interesting as a class, but how each student will be effected is pretty much a gamble.
Hopefully this will be a nice course. I'm looking forward to finally starting soon.

Premiere Entry

This is a blog that I have created for the Biblical Foundations course of Montana State University, Taught by Prof. Sexson.
A little bit about myself. My name is KT (yes that is really how I spell my name, no it doesn't mean anything.) I come from an English family and moved to the states when I was 5. I have read the bible before out of scholastic curiosity, but that was a long time ago so this will be quite the refresher course.
My first impressions on the class, is that I am rather surprised that I was required to start this blog for the course. I suppose it is equivalent to asking the class to keep a journal of their thoughts and ideas as they read, but with internet and computers. I suppose it makes it easier to be certain students are actually writing as they go. I suppose it's for the best; I have spell check at my disposal now as well as the ability to copy and paste links to interesting things i find on the internet. Still it's amazing to see the university system adapt and use technology, particularly in a study like literature...where we are studying rather old technology.
Anyway I'm not sure how well I will be able to keep up this blogging thing. I've never really felt the need to do something like this, i'm not under the illusion that the Internet wishes to know my thoughts, but i hope that I'll be able to keep it up with the incentive that it is for class.