Following the prompt - What do you find appeals to you more: classes that help students gain teh practical skills taht will best serve them in the labor market or those that address critical questions of universal concern about values, language, and culture? What role do you think grammar classes should play in addressing either of these concerns?
I think it would be hypocritical of me to agree that classes should only serve students in preparing them for the labor market. Not only do I despise classes like these, but I find them to be degrading to our society, not allowing students to broaden their minds and bring forth their useful skills to society. I think by addressing universal concerns, the culture, language, etc., students will learn critical skills, allowing them to be a well rounded individual, helping their society. It is the values that a students learns in their liberal arts classes that allows them to understand society and how to use their already inate practical skills to function in society.
Using grammar in the class can enhance these skills, allowing students to function on a more professional leve, but I don't think it is the main concern of the class that is trying to get students to think criticall about universal themes.
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Would a class that focuses on thinking critically about grammar meet your definition of a course that focuses on universal concerns and broadens minds?
Do you suspect that English majors value a liberal arts education more than students in other majors do?
Should colleges try harder to convince all students of the value of the liberal arts? Should they require students to take more liberal arts classes?
I think our class critically thinks about grammar, which allows us to focus on universal concerns, but it does not necessarily meet humanistic needs. Yes, we broaden our minds, but I don't think we are focusing on the concerns that actually make a difference in the universe.
I think it is easier for English majors to value the Liberal Arts, seeing as most of us love literature to begin with and that's why we became English majors.
If college's were to focus more on the Liberal Arts, I would hope that it would influence students to see the world in with a humanistic approach.
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