My Literature Studies *Explained* 

All that sounds amazing. So interesting to hear from other countries.

So lovely to have people here with completely different passions. All the best to you!

Haha oh no... That honestly doesn't sound great. I chose literature to NOT have to do "science", so I can imagine this is frustrating. So interesting though how different the courses are!

Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you for taking time to write all this. I appreciate it!

Thanks for sharing. And wow, that's crazy that they make you pay for education. So such thing here. You can do as much as you want, as long as you're in a public university. A lot of people study several things at the same time even...

@@strange.lucidity wait ... is university free in Austria?

Hi, luckily German is my mother tongue. I imagine it would be a pain to learn that language :D In terms of vocab: I have a notebook (I showed it in the Norwegian Video last week), where I make sure I have everything in one place. Then I record voice memos to myself reading different texts and then explaining the vocabulary.

Same. Unfortunately there's no literature list with the description and since I didn't take the course I don't have it :/

@@strange.lucidity Oh, I see! Thanks anyway

@LiteRAT681 Look up "why study the Humanities?" or "Why study Liberal Arts?" to answer your own question. Don't stress her out. I know you didn't ask me but I did a B.A. in History and my grandfather asked me the same question you are asking her and it was triggering.

​@@Vyborne I did my BA in Liberal Arts (mostly philosophy, actually!) but I knew exactly what I wanted to do afterwards, which was to get a master's in linguistics! I think having a plan to start with helped me not be so stressed (although the exact specifics of the plan changed slightly as well). I understand that the academic plan doesn't work for everyone, though. But my plan's just the one particular to me. In any case, flaunting my textual analysis skills (including using some data science to do rudimentary corpus linguistics) probably really helped me get in, even though I really wanted to study phonetics, phonology, and historical linguistics along with corpus linguistics in my linguistics degree. Ended up doing a rather lot of phonetics, but not so much historical for sure. It also helped that I took part in a corpus linguistics study already as one of the undergrad data collectors, and I studied *constantly* linguistics on my own. :P

Hopefully more of what I'm doing on here- share my passion with people and inspire them... :-) On a more practical note: I know what you mean, and people go into either academia, research, working in a library or publishing house. I don't think any of those jobs would be for me. Also, there's not a lot of "great" opportunities if you study literature. As one of my professors said in the first lesson: "Welcome and congratulations to choosing intellect over money" ;-) But I'm not doing this degree with a fixed job future in mind. I want to learn how to think well and I trust that this (+ an artists heart) will lead me in the right direction. I totally see that this is very privileged and not all people have this opportunity. My background, but mostly the fact that I'm living in Austria, where the state pays me to study, makes all this possible for me. And I'll use it to do as much good in the world as I can. And if that doesn't bring me enough money, I always have a place in the social sector, working with people with disabilities (my previous degree). People are much needed there. And even though I don't feel like it's my ultimate passion, I have no problem going back there. Hope this answers your question :-)