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Statement of Purpose
Statement of Purpose
A theme of personal strife in my academics has been academic rigor. I must be challenged, specifically in how deeply I engage the material. In high school, this meant an in-class lecture on WW1 turned into a 28-slide personal research project on the merits of the Wilson administration. In college, it has translated into over electing, graduating early, adopting three minors, and pursuing a research project on the effect of climate change on the Maple Sugar industry. When schoolwork turns to passion, hours fly by in seconds and the stacks of a library seem more like a treasure trove as I navigate the seas of academia.
This Oxford Program will supplement the areas of my education that are currently underserved at CUA. The Mullen Library has four books on Environmental Policy 一 I have read them all. Through the environmental track of the Honors Program, I have completed three out of our four classes on environmental themes. Additionally, the rigor and depth of the OSAP tutorials provided opportunities for internships and research projects upon my return. I have forged relationships with professors in the environmental science, international relations, and political theory departments respectively. This opens an avenue for joint research in the academic year to come. While this University no longer has an environmental science major, this indicates the research fields are wide open for a student with the proper initiative and training. It is in search of that training that applied for this program.
The Oxford Program not only supported my academic endeavors by allowing a deeper exploration of these topics in Environmental Science and Policy but also challenged my writing skills thus preparing me for life after graduation where I intend to pursue the field of Environmental Justice through Academia, While my writing skills have earned me a 3.95 GPA thus far in my undergraduate experience, these skills alone are not worthy of a graduate school applicant. I am seeking the rock tumbler which can grind my stones of skill into gems of excellence. While the sandpaper may be rough, and the Oxford curriculum tough, it ultimately produced skills of paramount importance to my later career.
Tutorials
Tutorials
Philosophical Logic
Philosophical Logic
This tutorial covers Volker Halbach's, The Logic Manual
"An exceptionally clear, concise, and affordable introduction to logic, The Logic Manual carefully walks beginning philosophy students through the fundamentals, offering them a real understanding of how and why logic works. Topics covered include propositional and predicate logic and an account of the semantics of these languages, including definitions of truth and satisfaction."
"This tutorial focuses on how Nature and Society are understood conceptually, and the ways in which these conceptualizations impact the way in which the modern social and natural sciences generate knowledge about the world. Understandings of nature are important for environmental governance and policy more broadly and underpin many of the ways in which we imagine environmental futures."
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