Task 1:

I am going to include all of these somewhere in my essay:

1. They mention that there are “boutique” classes replacing important classes, but colleges only have classes that teach important skills. 
   1. 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.
   2. I am going to use this in my paragraph that uses a naysayer. 
2. Going to a career specific college is good because it sets you up for the workplace(, and it almost guarantees a job), but we need people who know more about the environment, so they can support their community. 
   1. This supports that you should go to a career focused college, but it also says that it is a good idea to go to a liberal arts school because we need well informed people. 
3. It is hard for liberal art school graduates to find jobs, but a liberal arts education sets them up better to work well with others and in their community. 
   1. This says that it might be hard for them to find jobs but that it also sets them up to be more successful.

1. Although many people say you cannot get good jobs from a liberal arts degree, many people have successful jobs; “Plenty of philosophy and physics majors work on Wall Street, and the ability to analyze and compare literature across cultures is a skill linked to many other fields, including law and medicine”(Ungar).
   1. I think this is important to include in my essay because it provides two ideas but makes one seem more important.
2. Even though having a liberal arts degree is useful because of all the skills you are taught, many people cannot find jobs from it and many employers would rather go with someone trained in that specific area.
   1. I have no idea if this is true this is just what I got from the “How Colleges are Failing Liberal Arts.”

Task 2:

Original: 

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 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. 

Edited:

The University of New England’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. There are specific sections in the handbook that talks about different themes that each student must take throughout their years at the universtiy. It is set up this way so students can be opened up to many different aspects and problems, maybe even driving a student to change their major. 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.” If you think about all the required classes that the university uses to help students adapt to becoming a well informed citizen outside of college, that supports Scheuers point of view that liberal arts makes you a flexible minded person and how that will help you succeed.  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 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.