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Relevant Course Outcomes
Students will be able to to articulate the value of and the personal reasons for earning a degree at a liberal arts and sciences institution, particularly to potential employers.
Students will be able to apply General Education learning outcomes and skills to real-world situations and simulations.
Students will be able to demonstrate how General Education learning outcomes and skills can be integrated, requiring multiple areas of knowledge and multiple modes of inquiry, and benefiting from multiple perspectives.
Students will be able to intellectual progress through reflections on and revisions of previous work within a portfolio.
Students will be able to develop their insights effectively through oral communication.
Students will be able to apply information literacy skills and the steps of the research process in creative and/or independent ways.
A two-part discussion of why General Education is significant and how it complements an individual’s major/career.
General Instructions for Both Parts:
With any device/program/app, create at least a five-minute (5 minute) video. This video should have the ability to be uploaded to YouTube.
Upload video to YouTube. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS HERE BEFORE UPLOADING.
You will need a Google account, which would be your school email address (it comes with access to Google sites, so you should not have a problem here).
Once you are signed into your Google account, if you are unfamiliar with YouTube, click here for instructions on how to upload your video.
You may use the "Unlisted" privacy setting, but be sure that it is NOT marked as content for kids (if it is, I cannot save it in a playlist).
Turn in link to video on Google Classroom.
Videos may:
be in any format. It can simply be a video of you "lecturing" or you may choose a different method.
Examples: audio on top of video/images; video of you; presentation with audio over the top, etc.
be longer than five minutes.
be organized or designed in any way.
be as creative (or not) as you like.
include the use of any props or other visuals that you like (particularly if you know how to edit your video to include them).
Videos must at least include:
direct quotations from a minimum of two credible, fact-checked sources.
a properly-formatted Works Cited with a minimum of five entries (should include all sources, not just those directly quoted, either in a slide in the video or in the description section of the YouTube page).
Part 1 Instructions:
By this point in the semester, we have read a number of sources on general education and the liberal arts and sciences. We have completed a number of activities and discussions in order to reflect on the why of these requirements. In Part 1 of your Why General Education? Video, bring this work together and, referring to sources we have read together or that you have found, present what you consider to be the most compelling evidence for General Education.
Part 2 Instructions:
At the end of the semester, we have developed full portfolios that reflect on our individual coursework, our thought processes, and our perspectives after reading and thinking. In Part 2 of your Why General Education? Video, you will add to your presentation in Part 1 by synthesizing what you consider to be your most compelling personal evidence, supported by sources we have read together or that you have found, for the why of General Education.
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