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“In this quote Ungar states one of the many common misperceptions that people have about liberal arts students, it’s true that liberal arts students can often have some difficulty finding a job after college but that doesn’t mean that students should steer away from a liberal arts education.” This is a compound sentence because it …
Original Intro: Why aren’t the liberal arts as popular as something like the STEM disciplines? Many people believe that liberal arts aren’t necessary and won’t really get you anywhere in life. But what many don’t realize is that liberal arts skills can be very helpful in the future and actually get you further in your …
Why aren’t the liberal arts as popular as something like the STEM disciplines? Many people believe that liberal arts aren’t necessary and won’t really get you anywhere. But what many don’t realize is that liberal arts skills can be very helpful in the future and get you further in your career. In the reading, “7 …
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 …
For the sixth misperception they speak about how the United States is the only country that thinks the liberal arts are important. As Ungar states, “America is the only country in the world that clings to such an old-fashioned form of postsecondary education as the liberal arts.” (Ungar). Most other countries don’t believe that the …
Pre-reading I think this article is going to be about critical thinking from students in different academic subjects. I think liberal arts are different academic subjects, like math, literature, and science. The first section of this reading is about what the liberal arts really are and where/how they originated. The liberal arts are seen as …
Original In “The Coddling” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, they discuss how not challenging students in the classroom can be seen as childish. They believe that students should be able to handle what is given to them without being protected by schools who believe they won’t be able to handle it on their own. …
When I met with Olivia we worked on redoing my body paragraphs. I told her some changes I wanted to make to those paragraphs and she gave me some positive feedback and helped me make those changes. For example, in my first body paragraph I wanted to change it from just talking about Lukianoff and …
For my stance on agree I used a quote from “The Coddling” that states, “The presumption that students need to be protected rather than challenged in the classroom is at once infantilizing and ant-intellectual” (Lukianoff). I agree with Lukianoff and Haidt idea here because I think that not challenging students is very childish. Students need …
I had some concerns about making my claim clear in the beginning of my essay since I usually have some trouble with that. I also had some concerns about getting too opinionated. I have trouble with both of these things and it has previously been pointed out to me so I wanted to make sure …
