1st Humanistic Studies Reflection

“What is that? What are we going to deal with? What are we going to do?” Those were the questions in my head when I heard “Humanistic Studies”. I came to this class with blank idea, I know nothing about this course, and I did not even ask to my seniors what this is. When I knew Pak Hatim is going to teach that course, the first thought came from my head is “Man, it’s going to be tough! It must be a lot of essay I have to write and I don’t like that!” As I know, Pak Hatim likes writing and reading, so that is why I thought like that. Well, everything is not always like I have expected. I hope I can pass this course very well and get knowledge as much as possible from it.

To answer the question “what is that?”, based on the module, it is the course which targets the teacher candidates to develop their personal skills and social awareness. Like Pak Hatim said in the first meeting (9/23), we are going to deal with many things about culture and religion. Even though we are prepared to be international standard teachers, we must still esteem our culture, so we can think global, act local. I am still curious about “what are we going to do?”. The only thing I know is I should write five essays which each essay has to consist of more than four hundred words. However, I like one thing about this course in the first meeting, the discussion. The discussion is very interesting for me because Pak Hatim came up with many things I have never known before.

Usually, the first meeting starts with introduction. I do not know much about Pak Hatim and I am sure that he does not know me so well yet. He delayed the introduction session in the first meeting to the next meeting. He gave us time to really recognize our own selves. “Who am I? What am I?” “I am Kristianto Saputro and I very proud of being a Javanese boy.” That is what I am going to say at the next session. I know three different languages (though I still cannot use them well), there are Javanese as my identity, Bahasa as my nationality, and English as my professionalism. That is my culture side. For the religion side, I am a Moeslem, I hope I can be a good Moeslem though my mother is a Christian and my father never does sholat. I think my mother is a good Christian because she always visits church every week, that is why my name is Kristianto Saputro. ‘Kristianto’ is given by my mother and ‘Saputro’ is taken from my father last name.

I think it is enough for this reflective essay. I very hope I can enjoy this course and get much new knowledge so I can share it to others.