Reading University Challenge

[[deleted user]]

Finally finished my Associates degree!

[Agnieszka]

That such a cool challenge! I'm in:-) I'll start with Associates Degree but hope to finish all degrees ;-)

Reading University Challenge
Start date: December 1, 2016
Read: 0/45?

Associates Degree 0/7
Science: science fiction, earth science, life science, applied science
Literature: american novel, european novel, world novel, graphic novel
History: alternate history, american history, european history, world history
Social Science: anthropology, psychology, education, political science
Art: fine arts, visual arts, music, art history
Language: indo-european, sino-tibetan, niger-congo, austronesian
Athletics: baseball, olympics, cricket, sports history

Bachelors Degree: 0/13
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[Maria Jo]

Finished my Associate's Degree in message 685. Ready to start working on my Bachelor's Degree! O, to choose a major...

[Lauren]

Reading University Challenge
Enrolled: December 25, 2016

Progress: 5/45

Associate's Degree:
Science: Stars Above 1/1/17
Literature: Sailor Moon, #6 12/27/16
History: After the War Is Over 1/21/17
Social Science: The Overton Window 3/30/17
Art: fine arts, visual arts, music, art history
Language: Salt and Saffron 1/31/17
Athletics: baseball, olympics, cricket, sports history

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[Martina]

Start: 01/08/2016 ---
Progress: 4/45

Associates Degree
✔Science: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
✔Literature: The Complete Persepolis
History: The man in the high castle
✔Social Sciences: La saggezza orientale
Art: On ugliness
Language: A writing: a memoir of the craft
✔Athletics: The Contest

[Jessiebee]

Associates Degree:
✔Science: Life As We Knew It
✔Literature: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
✔History: The Wonder
✔Social Sciences: A Tale for the Time Being
✔Art: Soundless (The main character is an artist, she helps paint the town records every day)
✔Language: The Scent of Sake
✔Athletics: Rebecca

Bachelors Degree:
Major: Literature
✔1. Carrie (American)
✔2. Darkly Dreaming Dexter (American)
✔3. With Malice (American)
✔4. The Call (European)
✔5. Kill the Boy Band (American)
✔6. The Notebook (American)
✔7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (European)
✔8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (European)
✔9. My Sisters Keeper (American)
✔10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (European)

Minor: Language
✔1. Peach Blossom Pavilion (Sino-Tibetan)
✔2. The Light Between Oceans (Austronesian)
✔3. Human Acts (Sino-Tibetan)

Master's Degree: Literature
American Novel:
✔1. Gone with the Wind
✔2. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
✔3. Everything You Want Me to Be

European Novel:
✔1. Never Let Me Go
✔2. Anna and the French Kiss
✔3. Fingersmith

World Novel:
✔1. Rumors of Savages
✔2. The Vegetarian
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[Fajriy]

Reading University Challenge
Start date: December 29, 2016
End date: ???

Completed: 1/45

Associates Degree
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Science:


Literature: american novel, european novel, world novel, graphic novel

History: alternate history, american history, european history, world history

Social Science: anthropology, psychology, education, political science

Art: fine arts, visual arts, music, art history

Language: indo-european, sino-tibetan, niger-congo, austronesian

Athletics: baseball, olympics, cricket, sports history
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[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome to the challenge everyone! :)

Congrats on your degrees Taryn and Maria Jo!

[GreenFairy]

Associates Degree (7 books in all)
► Read 1 book from each core subject (7 books)

Science- -talks a lot about how things occuring have to do with physics...or the lack of 1/30/17
Literature
History- -Kate's abilites and job revolve around history (talked about in every book) 1/7/17
Social Science- -Lyric is a deputy mayor 1/3/17
Art- -Florian is tattooed as well as a tattoo artist and painter 12/30/16
Language- -takes place in England 9/30/17
Athletics- -Kash is a paid fighter 1/3/17

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome to the challenge GreenFairy ☺

[Susan]

This sounds great! Now to do some planning....

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome to the challenge Susan :)

[Anita]

I am starting today this chanllenge.

Start date : 14/01/2017

Associate Degree

Science - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Literature - Mansfield Park jane austen
History - China History JAG Robert
Social Science - The psicology Book Benson, Nigel C.
Art - I NOT DECIDED YET. I accept sugestions
Language - the book one thousand and one nights
Athletics - Once a runner - John L. Parker Jr.,

[Beth]

Reading University Challenge
start date 2/6/2017
so far: Associate's Degree earned
working on: Bachelor's with a major in Science/minor in History - 1 book left!
Associate’s Degree - 7 books
7/7 completed 8/20/2017
1. Science: sf - The Martian Chronicles finished 2/13/2017
2. Literature: Graphic Novel at least 200 pgs The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones finished 3/14/2017
3. History: European history (Greece) - The Histories finished 3/9/2017
4. Social science: Anthropology (set in a culture or country different from yours) Everfair finished 3/30/2017 (I'm in the US, the book is set in the Congo)
5. Art: Art History - fiction or nonfiction set in ancient Greece/Rome The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War 5/27/2017
6. language - Sino-Tibetan - Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse 8/4/2017
7. Athletics: fiction or nonfiction set in an International Cricket Council country - Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West India, or Zimbabwe
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 8/20/2017

Bachelor’s Degree - Major & Minor completed 4/8/2018
Major: Science - 10/10 read
subcategories:
Science Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal or Dystopian genre
Earth Science - fiction or non-fiction book about climate change, a natural disaster, or located primarily on/in the ocean or underground
Life Science - fiction or nonfiction book about an animal(s) or plant(s)
Applied Science - fiction or non-fiction book about a medical condition/epidemic/breakthrough or where a main character is a doctor or nurse
1. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 8/23/2017 (fantasy/paranormal)
2 Babel-17 8/26/2017 (sf)
3. Warm Worlds and Otherwise 8/27/2017 (sf)
4. Green Earth 9/14/2017 (Earth Science - fiction about climate change)
5. Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (post-apocalyptic sf) 9/24/2017
6. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Earth Science - nonfiction about climate change) 9/27/2017
7. The Player of Games (sf) 10/14/2017
8. Star Songs of An Old Primate (sf) 10/19/2017
9. Teatro Grottesco (fantasy/paranormal) 10/21/2017
10. The Birds (I think this fits life science) 10/28/2017

Minor: History 2/3 read
1. European: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 10/8/2018 (history, Europe)
2. Alternate: The Years of Rice and Salt 4/8/2018 (alternate history)
3. American or World History: ?

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome to the challenge, Sany and Beth :)

[April]

Finished my second Associate's

Associate's Degree:
Science: Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis 1/23/17
Literature:The Rose Garden 12/27/16
History: Washington: A Life 2/12/17
Social Science: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 2/7/17 I'm in US, Malala was in Pakistan
Art: The Witch of Painted Sorrows 9/27/16 main character becomes painter
Language: Slumdog Millionaire 2/20/17
Athletics: Olympic Affair: A Novel of Hitler's Siren and America's Hero 10/20/16

[Deedee]

Finished Ph.D. in European History. Yeah!

[[deleted user]]

Does The Forest of Symbols: Aspects Of Ndembu Ritual by Victor Turner Completed 1/11/17 apply for the science minor?

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Congrats April and Deedee! ☺

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Taryn wrote: "Does The Forest of Symbols: Aspects Of Ndembu Ritual by Victor Turner Completed 1/11/17 apply for the science minor?"

I'm not sure since I haven't read it.
From blurb it might go under applied science, I think. But as you've read it, you'd be better judge of it. Was there any breakthrough about rituals? :)

[Rokkan]

I just finished my Masters here. Now on to my PhD!

Is it bad that I'm already thinking of a second go around? I love this challenge!

[Maria Jo]

Finished my Bachelor's Degree!

[Jojobean]

Reading University Challenge

Associates Degree
Science: Science Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal or Dystopian genre
Literature: American Novel - literature genre set in North America or by a North American author(s)
History: European history - fiction or non-fiction historical book set in Europe
Social Sciences: Anthropology - fiction or non-fiction book set in a culture or country different from yours (state your culture or country of origin)
Art: Art History - fiction or non-fiction book set in ancient Greece or Rome
Language: Indo-European - fiction or non-fiction book set in Spain, Russia or India
Athletics: Cricket - fiction or non-fiction book about cricket or set in an International Cricket Council (ICC) full member country (Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West India, or Zimbabwe)

Bachelors Degree:
Major: Science
Science:
Science Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal or Dystopian genre
Earth Science - fiction or non-fiction book about climate change, a natural disaster, or located primarily on/in the ocean or underground
Life Science - fiction or nonfiction book about an animal(s) or plant(s)
Applied Science - fiction or non-fiction book about a medical condition/epidemic/breakthrough or where a main character is a doctor or nurse
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Minor: Literature
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American Novel - literature genre set in North America or by a North American author(s)
European Novel - literature genre set in Europe or by a European author(s)
World Novel - literature genre set outside of North America and Europe or by an author from outside of North America and Europe
Graphic Novel/Manga - graphic novel or manga genre & at least 200 pages in length
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Master's Degree - History
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American History - fiction or non-fiction historical book set in North America
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World history - fiction or non-fiction historical book set outside of North American and Europe
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PHD - American History
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