Questions for Engaging With Bain (HW#11)
Towards the beginning of this chapter, Bain tells the story of Joe who went from believing he was smart because that was what everyone told him, to later in life starting to question his abilities because he was told things like he could be getting better grades. People would say things to Joe like, “‘You used to be so smart. What happened to you?’ Gradually, Joe decided that he wasn’t all that bright and that he would never be a…
Interview Questions (HW #10)
Interview Questions What interests you about and/or made you want to study Sociology? In his article, Ernest Boyer presents the idea of an enriched major. One of the questions that an enriched major should respond to is, “What are the ethical and moral issues to be confronted (in that field)?” What are some of the big moral and ethical problems that the Sociology program looks to address? Another aspect of the enriched major is that it should take a look…
Boyer Connections for 10/6
Sociology: Something that really interests and excites me about sociology after doing this research is that with this major, you can get a career in journalism which I wasn’t aware of. Journalism is a career that I’m starting to become more interested in and I am also very interested in sociology/psychology, which makes me want to continue looking into these fields. Environmental science: For the last assignment, I looked more into environmental science. I’m interested in environmental science because the…
Questions For Boyer (HW #8)
The first topic for debate that Boyer brings up when it comes to general vs. career-focused education is that the career-focused majors are too new and tradition should be valued over these new majors. Boyer goes on to make the point that, “Overlooked in such debates was the fact that most disciplines that now have status within the academy-modern languages, laboratory sciences, for example-were themselves once considered too novel for the academy to embrace.” Here he is saying that the…
Project 1: First Draft & Writers Memo
Goal Setting Table
HW #7
Academic Goal: One of my academic goals for this year is to start exploring more courses and majors that have to do with environmental science. While I initially thought I wouldn’t be too interested in science courses going into college, I decided to take intro to environmental issues, partly because it is a requirement to take an environmental course in the core curriculum, and partly because I feel as though it’s a topic that is important to be informed on…
Ken Bain, “Curiosity and Endless Education”
Section one, introduction: The first passage that really stood out to me was, “… and ‘liberal arts’ sounds to them like something you pursue if you don’t have a real major” (Bain, 2012). When I read that, it immediately reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend a few years ago. She was graduating and told me she was pursuing a liberal arts education, which basically means she was undecided. This shows how people really do have these…
Reading Questions on Scheuer, Ungar, and the Core Handbook
Section One: The first section of this text is “What are the Liberal Arts?” which discusses the overall idea of the liberal arts education. Author Jeffery Scheuer explains that the term liberal arts can be a little misleading to what the education actually entails. While it does cover a broad spectrum of topics, it can be summed up as, “… ‘education based fairly and squarely on the nature of knowledge itself’” (Scheuer, n.d.). Rather than dumping a lot of information…
