Reading Domesday 'til Doomsday

I've had two classes, or "modules," so far. My Regency Women Writers module (henceforth to be referred to as RWW) was canceled for the first week due to weather (wusses) so I haven't had that yet. It's usually a two-hour seminar on Monday mornings. I have had Kingship in Early Medieval Britain and Europe (henceforth to be referred to as EMK) and Norman and Plantagenet England (NPE). Two history classes and a literature class. EMK is held on Wednesdays, with a lecture at 10am and a seminar at 12 noon. NPE is from 12pm to 5pm, with a lecture, a seminar, and a second lecture, with an hour break between each.

History classes, I have discovered, have a massive amount of reading. It's absolutely ridiculous. RWW has a novel or two a week, which isn't bad. EMK and NPE, however, have stacks of texts attached to each class. For example, in NPE today, my professor gave us each a booklet, about 5 1/2" by 8", with 65 pages of articles and books listed in size 10 font, all of which are to be read in the next 12 weeks. In EMK, we were given a list of about 15 texts to read per class, in addition to 12 books to read as "preparatory material" before next class for those of us who had the misfortune of not being in last fall's class of Early Medieval Europe. These bibliographies for EMK and NPE are supplementary material, and do not include the texts we will be actually discussing in class. Those are handed out on a week-by-week basis to ensure that you attend every lecture and seminar. These lists also don't include the reading we will have to do for the research presentations we will be giving each week in our EMK class. This week's presentation for EMK is on Louis the Pious, King of Aquitaine. The texts we will not be discussing in class will, however, be on our end-of-term exams and essays, one essay and one exam per class, 50% of my grade for the exam, 40% for the essay, and 10% for the weekly presentations. In lecture classes, you are expected to just sit and take notes and not ask any questions. Those you save for seminar classes, which are not necessarily taught by the same professor. On the bright side, the classes and topics look absolutely fascinating, and I couldn't believe how quickly the hours flew by.