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 thought about how the different classes that the University of New England requires you a student to take and how they make you them a more informed citizen. The environmental classes teach you about real world issues and we come up with ways to solve them. You can use these skills in other aspects of life. If you were asked to help your community solve an issue, you would have to think about what is causing it, who it affects, and different ways to solve it. In order to efficiently do this you would need to use the skills that you learned in your liberal art school. 

The University of New England has specific requirements for each student. Their 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 thought about how the different classes that the University of New England requires a student to take and how they make you them a more informed citizen. The environmental classes teach them about real world issues and we come up with ways to solve them. You can use these skills in other aspects of life. If you were asked to help your community solve an issue, you would have to think about what is causing it, who it affects, and different ways to solve it. In order to efficiently do this you would need to use the skills that you learned in your liberal art school. 

I connected Scheuer and the Handbook in this section. I added more to my introduction so I did not start with a quote.