I've divided my year into four academic quarters. I'll be engaged in ENG 199 ("General Literary Studies") and PAC 130 ("Conditioning") for the entire year, and ARAB 101/102/103 ("First Year Arabic") during the latter three quarters. In the first quarter, I'll be working on BA 480 ("Information Systems Security"), HST 406 ("Orcadian Gordon Highlanders of the Great War"), and REL 199 ("Introduction to Roman Catholicism"). In the second quarter, I'll switch to CS 406 ("Projects in Information Technology Management") and PI5502 ("Middle Eastern Security"). In the third quarter, I'll switch to HST 406 ("The Dhofar Rebellion") and PI5001 ("Remedial Advanced Strategy"). I'll round out the year with GIS/GEOG 151 ("Introduction to OSGEOINT") and HST 387/388 ("Remedial Islamic Civilization"). That's five "courses" per "quarter", and a lot of reading for each one. So, what will I be reading?
My list for ENG 199 consists of a bunch of books I've read and enjoyed in the past, a handful of books I've started without ever finishing, and a couple of books I've wanted to read and haven't gotten around to.
I don't expect to be a powerlifter or marathoner by 2018, but I'd like to ramp things up a bit for PAC 130. Here are the books and pamphlets I'll be consulting along those lines.
For BA 480, I have a handful of books to prepare me for a variety of professional certifications.
For my research on the Orcadian Gordon Highlanders' service in the Great War, I have two major sources yet to consult (aside from primary source documents that are too numerous to consult). At this point, Life of a Regiment is on course to be the first book I finish in 2017.
I need to get smart about Catholic, so that means...
I have a bunch of Arabic resources, but I won't be reading any of them as if they're a formal book. I also don't have any formal books relating to CS 406. So, that brings us to PI5502. There are a couple of books, but the bulk of these listings are scholarly or semi-scholarly articles that relate to a scholarly article I intend to write during Spring term.
For my second installment of HST 406, I have a handful of books (that will probably be supplemented with more) about the Dhofar Rebellion, its background, and its aftermath.
I don't exactly need remedial strategic studies attention, but there were some resources that I wanted to read between 2012 and 2013, and didn't. So, I've made a few selections to that end.
I didn't do anywhere near the volume of undergraduate reading that I should have. Two of the following are books I was supposed to have read in 2002, one was an assigned reading in a course by the same professor that I audited in Spring of 2012, and the book by Bernard Lewis is one that I picked up at a book sale in 2014 that seemed to fit (and isn't too long).
Finally, I intend to follow up on some 2016 investigation into open source geospatial intelligence. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I took a course in Strategic Intelligence at Aberdeen. This final course in Fall quarter will focus on the operational outlook on intelligence, as well as the specific "tactical" aspects of operating some of the open source GIS resources that I hope to use for future endeavours.
I have my work cut out for me. This is a total of forty-two books and fifteen pamphlets. Again, the prospect of reading all of this is pretty nonsensical, but I think that if I commit to reading in lieu of things like screwing around on Facebook or binge-watching shows on Prime or Netflix, I can demolish a big chunk of it. Here's to 2017!
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