Alicia’s ePortfolio

Carter says that the main issue for WID professionals is the gap between writing inside and outside of the disciplines. Carter says that teachers don’t like to include writing in their classroom because it limits what they can teach. “Writing is considered outside the disciplines, the province of English teachers, and thus unable to play an important role in the disciplines.” The ability to write/teach writing in the classroom needs to be connected to the ability to write outside the…

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Task 1: I am going to include all of these somewhere in my essay: They mention that there are “boutique” classes replacing important classes, but colleges only have classes that teach important skills.  This is a coordinated sentence because it talks specifically about the fun electives and then that all classes at colleges have important skills to teach. I am going to use this in my paragraph that uses a naysayer.  Going to a career specific college is good because…

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In “How Colleges are Failing Liberal Arts Majors” by Kenneth Kolson and Alexis Zhang, it is said that many liberal art schools are actually failing . “Out of the 1,000 schools reviewed, 34% earned a “D” or an “F.”” Schools are failing at providing an education that includes all the necessary skills that make liberal arts schools so popular. “Introductory survey courses have disappeared in favor of boutique electives… . Once the bedrock of the liberal arts degree, general education…

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UNE’s goal is to help students, “develop foundational knowledge and critical thinking skills that are necessary for understanding and assuming their roles in natural, social, humanistic, and other environments.” UNE has required classes for students to take that are outside of their major so that they learn these necessary skills. Scheuer talks about how, “free minds are flexible minds, trained to recognize that many areas of inquiry are interconnected and many disciplinary boundaries are porous.” When I read that I…

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What big concerns did you have about your draft as you completed the first draft? My biggest concern was making the word minimum because I feel like I could not find a lot of connections and I did not want to sound way too repetitive. My second concern was not using too many quotes and having enough of my opinion.  What did your peers like most about your paper? Be specific, perhaps by quoting from one (or more) of the…

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1- Liberal art degrees teach students how to become engaged parts of their communities. “that the future demands of citizenship will require not narrow technical or job-focused training, but rather a subtle understanding of the complex influences that shape the world we live in”(Ungar). If you go onto a higher education that only focuses on one specific thing, you cannot learn to adapt and work in, or with people in, your community. “But ultimately, it isn’t about parsing the idea…

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Another course that I take is Psychology. It is an exploration corse. It introduces “social science discipline as a way of knowing.” It also provides “an introduction to the assumptions, methods, and terminology of that discipline.” It introduces social ‘issues’ or personal/mental disabilities that would limit you from being as productive in society as you would like to be and how you, as a member in the community, can help them. Scheuer says that “liberal arts … yoking together two…

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The University of New England is a college of arts and sciences. It includes english, math, and science classes. The point of a liberal arts degree is so that we, as students, learn many different aspects of life. We learn how to think critically, work with others, do things that we probably would not chose to do, and we also get to learn about many different authors, philosophers and literature that we would not have known other wise. We also…

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https://areynolds7.podbean.com/e/hannah-and-alicia/ During this project Hannah and I worked together and talked about the paper we wrote. It was very interesting to listen to her ideas and see how many similarities there were. But we also had differences like I used the article by Roth, and she did not. Overall I had a lot of fun with this project!

Many people think that is is important to go to a school only to focus and study one specific topic. But why do that when you can go to a school and get an education that will give you important life skills and knowledge that will help you succeed on any path life takes you? Many people change their majors a couple times before finding what is right for them, so if you go to a school where you are…

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