NVU Class Reflections

     Course Evaluation      Course subjects      I enjoyed having documentaries to watch in this class. This isn't something new to me, as this is a similar experience I had at Eco-Human Experience. However, if there's a video teaching me on a subject with firsthand encounters and experiences, I can't complain. It is easier to make an opinion when I get to see the story as it is, rather than it being an outsider's interpretation. The readings were fine. It was lengthy, but it did provide some knowledge on the subjects in question.            One assignment I look back nearly satisfied with is when we had to plan our final. We were told to think of scenarios for the final. I was pretty fixed on what I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about tolerance/acceptance of [other] religious beliefs. It's been a topic hovering over my head for a while. With how some college students in Johnson openly or subtly dis...

     Course Evaluation      Course subjects         This art class made me try different methods that I had never experimented with before. I enjoyed making the collage out of a history book and painting it onto a canvas. I took a neighborhood landscape full of houses, and I added facial features to the house from another page of the book. I also gave it hands and a key that swung across one finger. I called it "Humanization". I kept the grayscale from the book, but then I made the house in the middle of the portrait colorful and vibrant to form a contrast. I consider it one of my best hidden-meaning pieces.       I also had a piece where I was putting two pieces together that followed the theme of "polar opposites". I didn't want to follow something cliche which doesn't speak for me. I settled for something that felt personal to me. For the top of the portrait, I had an orange VHS tape with the film coming out. I cho...