My personal opinions on this table are that it was confusing. I really did not understand the table and why we made it relate to our majors. I also missed class on Wednesday so there could be something that I missed that was covered in class. I see the point of the different categories I believe. I went through each article in an attempt to make a response for each category. I did not fill in every single box, but…
In 385-8: Focus on noticing the problem or controversy that Carter is addressing. What, as you see it, is he trying to respond to in his project? Be sure to quote Carter as part of your response. The problem Carter is addressing is he pointed to the disjunction between writing in and writing out of the disciplines. In his response, Carter is trying to respond to this is he tries to draw a distinction between writing in and out of…
What is a central tension Boyer discusses in his chapter? Support your response with quote. The central tension in Boyer’s discussion is the fact that students are too obsessed with getting jobs and being prepared for a career, that they forget about their education and the importance of the liberal arts. The liberal arts have taken a backseat to business and engineering degrees, because students are so obsessed with getting there degree and not learning the necessary skills that the…
Coordination and Subordination: A liberal arts education provides a well rounded education that teaches students how to think critically, and teaches them how to write and to communicate orally. (This sentence uses coordination correctly becuase it uses the correct conjunction of “and”, and it connects two parts of a sentence. It connects two independent clauses.) According to the UNE CAS Handbook, “Through the Core Curriculum, students will develop foundational knowledge and critical thinking skills that are necessary for understanding and…
Commonly, the liberal arts are accused of being worthless degrees, that do not prepare people for careers in any field. A liberal arts major can actually go into any different field. Some of the most successful people are liberal arts majors. Most times liberal arts majors are the higher ups in their companies. In the article “How Colleges Are Failing Liberal Arts Majors” by Alexis Zhang. She talks about how schools are not preparing liberal arts majors for success in…
This paragraph is attempting to defend my point that the liberal arts are important to be taught and how UNE teaches it and how it connects to Ungar’s idea. A main core objective at UNE is Critical Thinking: Human Responses to Problems and Challenges. This objective has students after two years at UNE, take a class in their major that involves them to challenge and confront controversial topics and current issues in the field. Students and staff engage in debates…
I had a bunch of concerns about my first draft after I completed it. I made my claim defending the liberal arts and using Scheuer and Ungar to show how UNE uses the liberal arts. I have been confused about the question in this essay and what I am supposed to argue. I am concerned if my paper flows and connects back to the thesis. I am even more confused after Cripps said I can agree and disagree with some…
Introduction: My introduction, in my opinion was very good. I did not change much start to finish of my introduction paragraph, besides grammatical issues. I left the opening sentences the same as they were in the first draft. My thesis was made clear in the first place, so I did not really focus my attentions on the introduction. In my peer reviews and in my conference with Cripps, the introduction was said to be overall pretty solid. Evidence and Explanations:…
Project 2 Prompt: Jeffrey Scheuer and Sanford Ungar each offer a defense of a liberal arts education for today’s students. For Scheuer the argument involves introducing several conceptions of the liberal arts, the centrality of dimensions of citizenship, and a case for critical thinking. Ungar engages in a kind of mythbusting by organizing his points as responses to “misperceptions.” The “Core Handbook” introduces the CAS core values as well as the general curriculum required of all students in the college….
English Class: In the exploration section, I relate the second point directly to what we learn in English class. From the exploration section of the handbook, it says that students will be able to “Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.” Basically our entire homework curriculum we have done in class, is to work on critical reading with all of the annotation homework. The rest of our assignments involve reading and…
