OSMARU UNS

*Oya, tulisan ini hanyalah info singkat yang sebenarnya sebagai background tulisan saya berikutnya mengenai OSMARU/OSPEK di jurusan Sastra Inggris UNS. Karena saya rasa terlalu umum, maka saya pisahkan postingan background dengan main bodynya.

Well, happy reading…

Gedung Rektorat UNS. Source: photostock.uns.ac.id

Orientasi Mahasiswa Baru (OSMARU) di UNS dilaksanakan menjadi dua tahap. Tahap pertama adalah OSMARU yang diadakan pihak fakultas dan kedua dari pihak jurusan. Untuk pelaksanaan OSMARU tahap pertama waktu pelaksanaan di sembilan fakultas yang ada di UNS bersamaan yaitu selama tiga hari. Sedangkan untuk tahap dua sesuai dengan kebijakan jurusan masing-masing baik tanggal maupun lama pelaksanaan OSMARU.

Pada umumnya OSMARU hari pertama diisi dengan upacara di halaman rektorat dan dilanjutkan dengan kuliah umum perdana. Materi kuliah umum perdana bersifat umum mengingat peserta kuliah adalah mahasiswa dari seluruh jurusan. Kemudian dilanjutkan dengan materi pengenalan kampus oleh pihak fakultas. Hari kedua biasanya masih diisi dengan materi pengenalan kampus antara lain berkaitan dengan sejarah UNS, kehidupan kampus, SKS, perkuliahan, dll. Namun dihari kedua dan ketiga biasanya diselingi dengan perkenalan (Unit Kegiatan Mahasiswa) UKM yang terdapat difakultas.

OSMARU jurusan, khususnya di jurusan Sastra Inggris bisa dikatakan FUN sejak tahun 2011. Dahulu kala, kata kakak tingkat, OSMARU pakai fisik (ala militer). Kabar baik untuk angkatan baru, mulai dari tahun 2011, OSMARU di Sastra Inggris menjadi lebih menitik beratkan pada kekeluargaan. Meskipun disuatu rumah tangga terkadang juga terjadi KDRT. #STOP tidak usah dibahas.

Well, OSMARU jurusan disetiap jurusan berbeda. Baik itu waktu, lama, metode, dan tempat pelaksanaan. Untuk gambaran lebih jelas mengenai OSMARU jurusan khususnya di Sastra Inggris, keep on reading this blog. J

I’ve uploaded an overview of OSMARU in English Department. If you want to know that, click here.

[Not] A Story in the 4th Semester (Materi Sastra Inggris Semester 4)

 Oh God, the time when I wrote this note was in the final week of the 4^th semester. It means that it was almost my last moment in my second year. I had a wonderful experience during this semester especially on handling lecturers. As usual, I would gladly share my experience during my time in the 4^th semester correlated with classes.

In this semester I took 11 subjects. Each of them has 2 credits (SKS), meaning that this semester I had 22 credits. There was something special in this semester. There were 4 options of classes that we can choose. We had to choose two of these options.

• English for Business or English for Tourism

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• Journalistic or Public Relation

*FYI, I chose English for Business and Journalistic class.

Meanwhile the other ninesubjects that I had to choose were:

1. English for Academic Purposes
2.  Integrated English
3. Translation English to Indonesia
4.  Syntax
5.  Philosophy
6. Introduction to Poetry
7.  Introduction to American Studies
8. Javanese Culture, and
9.  Introduction to Drama

For instant topic of the subject, you can click on the subject to get detail information.

What I want to share here is technically based on my arrogant opinion, so don’t feel being provoked on the details I wrote :p

Here we go:

• Journalistic

The lecturer was Mr. Agus DP. I like the way he delivered the material in my class. In journalistic class I learn many things linked to journalism such as how to present a news with journalistic style, writing opinion and letter to editor, and make real bulletin.

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•  English for Academic Purposes

There were two classes, A and B. A class handled by Mr. Tri Wiratno and B class by Prof. Djatmika. We learned how to make a journal (simple research journal article).

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• Integrated English

Mr. AgusD.Priyanto handled both class A and B for this subject. Integrated English is a subject which combines students’ skill on listening, reading and writing in one class.What I love from this class was the material. Especially critical reading. I browsed about critical reading in google. The result was many university students get this kind of material in their college or university. And I feel the international standard material given to us. Hohoholol.

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•  Translation English to Indonesian

There were two classes for this subject. There were Prof. Nababanin A class and Miss Fenty in B class. Yaps, we learned on how to translate English text (Source Language) into Bahasa Indonesia (Target Language).

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•  Syntax

There was only one class. “Big Class”. The lecturer was Prof. Samiati. We learned about syntax in English (the language).

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• Philosophy

One class. Mr. Mugijatna was the lecturer who handled this class. We learned about the development of knowledge from Aristotle era until postmodern era.

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• Introduction to Poetry

Only one class. I get many things from Miss Susilorini in this class. We learned all things related to poetry such as poetry definition, devices, roles, nature of poetry, language in poetry, forms and also we delineated some of literary works of famous poets such as Robert Frost and WB Yeats.

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• Introduction to American Studies

Mr. Taufiq was the lecturer of this big class. We learned what, why Amstud? How to study Amstud.

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•  Javanese Culture

Miss Siti was the lecturer of this class. We learned many thing about Javanese culture.

• Introduction to Drama

We learned the history and elements of drama. We also delineated a play entitled “Sorry, wrong number”

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• English for Business

We learned all about business matter. However, due to the limited meetings we had (16 weeks in one term) we only learned about business letters, resume and CV, business interview and business presentation. Mr. Yusuf was the lecturer for this subject.

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Introduction to Drama

Introduction to Drama is one of the subjects to know better about literature. For students who want to choose literature for their research have to like this subject. This subject only the introduction of the topic. There will be many other aspects to discuss related to drama in the future semester.

Well, if you do like taking note in class, introduction to drama must be your favorite class. In this class, Mr. Yusuf gave explanation using slide and additional information calmly. You can easily take note without losing information. One more thing, the lecturer was so structural in giving the material so we can follow the learning process easier.

I like reading my note from this class. It seems neat. Lol. Unfortunately, I forget to to whom I lend my note for the first exam. What is left in my note right now started from week 6 so I will give kind of summary of this class from week 6.

Oh wait, in the first exam there was only one topic. It was the history of drama and its development. The first exam was in the form of dictate (mencongak). There were 50 questions and a limit time for thinking. However, it was not so difficult if you have good skill in memorizing. 

In week 6, we learned about Part of Dramatic structure especially Plot.

In week 7 and 8, we learned about characters and how characters determining plot.

My note in Intro to Drama class

In week 9 (April 10, 2014), there was second exam. The materials were only from 6 and 8 week.

In week 10-13, we still studied about element of drama, Language and Rhetoric. The other thing was the lecturer gave a drama script entitled “Sorry, Wrong Number” for homework. We needed to study the material for the next exam.

Week 14 was for the third exam. We applied all theories we got from week 6-13 to delineate the drama script. 

These are some photos during Introduction to Drama class.

English for Business

I don’t really have detail for this class. I explained the material for this class clear enough in the main note about semester 4.

Maybe, I will give brief explanation about the material for the exam.

First exam: There was two job applications. We were ordered to apply on one of the applications. We had to write Application letter and resume to apply that job.

Second exam: The material was about job interview part 1.

Third exam: Job interview part 2. (Both 2^nd and 3^rd exam were written test)

Fourth exam: Making business presentation that include chart(s) in the presentation. 

My friend was explaining a business chart in his presentation

another business presentation by another friend

Translation (English to Indonesia)

To be honest, I get nothing from this class but part of speech (that I’ve got from term I in writing I), phrase, sentence and clause. There were so many free classes. We really worked independently. In discussion class, the lecturer was as a supervisor. I think the way she taught us was quite good. In the one hand, we really worked based on our ability. In the other hand she only gave little knowledge and PHP. So many times she was late giving information that the class was free. I mean no class at that time. However, the information came to us when we had already waited for more than 30 minutes. I don’t know whether this was class leader mistake of her. I just hope that the next students don’t get the same experience as we did.

Syntax

Oh God, this was a big class. There were 85 students in one small class. Finally that’s fine after someone found a bigger room with AC in it. Yeah, not all classes in my faculty have air conditioner. Especially building one. There is only 1 big room which has AC but cannot be operated because of electricity power. Ups, sorry, OOT.

Well, in Syntax class, I learned about the definition of Syntax (of course), syntagtic devices, syntactic structure, types of relation, deep and surface structure and how to transform mental representation into surface structure. (I don’t understand the last material. I know, I was not a good student at that meeting because I only wrote the tittle in my note.)

The lecturer is a Professor which is old enough. Sometimes she forgot what she has told just right after saying it. As a student, I think there is a good thing from that. I can really pay attention to her voice. I mean her explanation. The other good thing is that she explained a material slowly. It makes the students understand easier. The best thing in this class is the lecturer always repeated the material that she has already given in the last meeting. In some cases the repetition until 2 or 3 times. Meaning that in a month (four meeting) we learned the same thing. In result, the students (must) understand the material well.

FYI, the final score is absolutely disappointing.  Many students say the final score is given randomly. Another information, one of my scores (exam 3 –there are 4 exams in one semester-) is 50. Meanwhile my friends get 100. The truth is we don’t know where the hell do the score come? We never take exam 3. #curcol

I think enough for this subject.

Philosophy

In this class we learned the definition of philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, and many other philosophers’ thought based on their era (reinaisance, modern 1 and 2, post-modern, positivism, materialism, hedonism, and many others.)

The material is so freaking much. You need to use your right-brain optimally.

The way the lecturer gave the material (tbh) was boring. As far as I remember there is no discussion in this class. However the lecturer gave the material using power point, actually the display on the slide do not show point at all. Soooooo wordy.

The good thing in this class is there are real four exams. And all the exams were multiple choice.