Homework for 3/1
- Ungar and Scheuer focus on job opportunities for liberal arts students. In “Critical Thinking and Liberal Arts” by Jeffery Scheuer he states, “Liberal arts colleges seem an endangered species as curricula shift toward science, technology, engineering, and math—the STEM disciplines. Students want jobs, not debt, and who can blame them?” (Scheuer). Scheuer talks about how liberal arts colleges aren’t as popular anymore because students are realizing that the job market for liberal arts is very slim, causing students to lean more towards the STEM disciplines because they will have a much better chance of a job right after graduation. In “7 Major Misperceptions About the Liberal Arts” by Sanford J. Ungar he states, “Yes, recent graduates have had difficulty in the job market” (Ungar). Ungar mentions how recent graduates from liberal arts colleges are having trouble finding jobs after college. The Core Handbook does not seem to emphasize life for liberal arts students after college. The handbook talks about the liberal arts, the requirements for the school, and the skills that will be learn but doesn’t mention much of anything for life after college.
- I am currently enrolled in ENG110 which fits into the Explorations Course. ENG110 contributes to the critical thinking goal, it teaches us how to think critically and look at our work in a different way. While reading articles for class we are always critically thinking while annotating or discussing our ideas with the class. ENG110 helps us not only learn how to master critical thinking but also use it in our everyday lives, not just in class a couple times a week. I am also currently enrolled in MAR106 and took MAR105 last semester. I believe that my MAR class could fit into the creative arts because we learn materials and processes in class and then perform those processes and materials learned in class, while we’re in lab. In lab we are able to perform experiments about what we learned in class and it helps us better understand the processes learned. MAR contributes to both the critical thinking and citizenship goals because in lab we need to critically think and analyze our experiments to determine why our how we got the outcomes we did. This class also contributes to citizenship because students are all able to work together in lab as a community.
- The Critical Thinking requirement from Core Handbook relates to the way that Jeffery Scheuer explains critical thinking. In the reading by Scheuer he states, “For example, educators often cite the ability to identify assumptions, draw inferences, distinguish facts from opinions, draw conclusions from data, and judge the authority of arguments and sources.” (Scheuer). Scheuer gives a few different examples of critical thinking but this is the most common definition of critical thinking that pretty much everyone knows, this definition relates to the section about critical thinking in the Core Handbook. While in the Core Handbook the explain the definition as, “Centering on the thinking process, as well as on the issues, students research and identify causes of problems, generate and evaluate possible solutions, and decide upon a plan of action.” (The Core Curriculum Handbook).
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