Bingung memilih...

Pernah ada seorang peramal remaja meramal gue lewat telapak tangan gue. Waktu itu dia bilang, "Lo bisa sukses, Ther. Bisa banget. Tapi masalahnya adalah, lo gak sukses-sukses gara-gara terlalu banyak yang mao lo capai... Terlalu banyak yang lo pengen... terlalu banyak yang lo bisa lakukan... dan lo terlalu pengen tau... Mending lo pilih aja satu bidang yang bisa lo tekuni dengan sungguh-sungguh." Tentu aja gue gak percaya. I took the advice for granted. Gue pikir banyak kok orang yang ahli dalam lebih dari satu bidang... Remy Silado bisa maen musik, teater, nulis, dll... Ayu Utami bisa nulis fiksi, essay, naskah drama, bahkan pernah jadi model... Jim Morrison... Leonardo Da Vinci... Agnes Monica...BCL!!!

Why not me? Yes, me? I'm quite proud to admit that I can do lots of things. Even things that I thought I could never done before I tried it! For instance, singing, acting on stage, and teaching... Gue baru nyadar kalo ternyata gue bisa melakukan itu setelah gue benar-benar melakukannya... Semua yang berasal dari penasaran dan coba-coba.

Dulu, niatnya setelah lulus S1 gue gak mao buang-buang waktu dan pengen langsung ngelanjutin kuliah, mumpung otak masih seger dan teori-teori pada belom ilang. Tapi udah 2 tahun ini gue masih gini-gini aja. Gue bersembunyi dibalik pembenaran-pembenaran: blom dapet beasiswa, blon ada dana, telat daftar, dll... Padahal masalah gue cuma satu. Gue bingung memilih!!! Persis seperti si peralam remaja itu bilang, gue terlalu penasaran, terlalu banyak maunya... dan itu malah bikin gue gak kemana-mana, karena gue gak tau harus fokus kemana... :-(

Berikut ini adalah daftar jurusan-jurusan keren di bidang MA, MLitt atau MFA. Paling keren yang pernah gue temuin sepanjang gue riset tentang universitas 3 tahun terakhir ini.  Karena terlalu banyak pilihan gue jadi bener2 bingung!!! Seandainya aja gue punya cukup banyak duit dan umur super panjang... gue pengen pelajarin semuanya...

Gue posting disini, karena gue pengen tau komentar teman-teman tentang jurusan-jurusan aneh (tapi keren) ini. Komentar kalian mungkin akan membantu gue atau bikin gue tambah bingung, hehehe.

- MA / MFA in Creative Writing (San Francisco State Uni)
 
- MA in Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious (Essex Uni, UK)
MA Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious is an interdisciplinary course drawing on the complementary expertise of the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. The course critically explores a variety of theories of myth, both ancient and modern, but focuses on the depth psychological theories of Freud and Jung, which postulate that the real subject matter of myth is the unconscious mind.

- MA in Film and Literature (Essex Uni, UK)
The MA in Film and Literature focuses on theoretical and practical interactions between literature and film, providing students with a wide range of textual and analytic skills.

- MA in Gothic Imagination (Stirling Uni, Scotland)
This programme aims to provide you with opportunities to explore the full range of Gothic writing, from its beginnings in the 18th century to the present day. The focus is on work from Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, through Victorian and late 19th-century writers (Dickens, Stevenson, Wilde, Stoker) to the Edwardian heyday of the ghost story, and on to the various modern and post-modern examples of the Gothic in writers such as Iain Banks, Angela Carter and Stephen King.The term ‘Gothic’ is itself highly contested. Accordingly, theories relevant to the Gothic, such as Freud on the uncanny, Todorov on the fantastic and Kristeva on abjection will be examined.

- MA in Creative and Critical Writing (Sussex Uni, UK)
The MA in Creative and Critical Writing at Sussex is the first of its kind in the UK. It develops out of long-standing teaching and research interests in creative writing, as well as in psychoanalysis, eco-poetics, cultural materialism, post-colonialism, deconstruction, feminism, and queer theory.

- MA in Creative Writing and Personal Development (Sussex Uni, UK)
The MA is a unique creative writing programme. It has two main strands: 1) Creative Writing/ Personal Development – allowing you to develop your creative writing through an exploration of the relationship between self and creativity; and 2) Creative Writing/Professional Development – allowing you, in addition to the above, to develop the skills of facilitating therapeutic writing groups in healthcare, therapy and education.

- MA in Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Sussex Uni, UK)
Autumn and spring terms: you take four of the following options: Psychoanalysis and the Image; Photography and Fiction; Cinema and the Domestic; Fragments: Theory, History, Visual Culture; Image and Text; Theorising Modernism: The Avant-Garde in Literature and Film; and The Visual Culture of Romanticism.

- MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Thought (Sussex Uni, UK)

- MA in Sexxual Dissidence in Literature and Culture (Sussex Uni, UK)
Autumn and spring terms: you take four of the following options: Critical Issues in Queer Theory; Sexuality, Fiction and Subculture; Queering Popular Culture; Sexuality and Creative Writing; Sexualities in Early Modern England; Sexuality and Identity in 20th-Century Post-Colonial Cultures; and Romantic and 19th-Century Sexualities; and Querying the Unconscious.

- MA in Wild Writing: Literature, Science and Environment (Essex Uni, UK)
This new MA programme will begin in October 2009, the product of an unusual collaboration between the departments of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies and Biological Sciences. It offers a unique combination of science and the humanities, with a focus on writing about the environment; it is global in its concerns but with a core module focusing on the local region of Essex/East Anglia; and it is open to students with or without specialist backgrounds in literary studies or biological sciences.

- MLitt in Global Cinema (Stirling Uni)
You will learn about how cinema operates as a global medium, and about the development and interactions of cinematic culture around the globe. Instead of simply looking at a selection of national cinemas from around the world, the focus of this degree is on the global phenomenon of cinema itself. In an era of globalisation, such a perspective is fundamental to understanding one of the most enduringly fascinating art forms.

- MA in Women, Violence and Conflict (York Uni, UK)

- MLitt in European Cinema (Glasgow Uni, UK)

- MLitt in Film Journalism (Glasgow Uni)

- MTh/MLitt in Inter-Faith Studies (Glasgow Uni)
This is one of the first programmes of its kind in the UK.  It is offered by our unique Centre for Inter-Faith Studies, founded in 2001 in response to today’s urgent need for — and growing interest in — inter-faith reflection.


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