Homework Lance
UNV 503 Topic 2 DQ 1
Find a scholarly article in the GCU library. Copy an excerpt from the article. The excerpt should be the length of a paragraph (approximately four to five sentences long). Post the excerpt as your initial discussion forum post with your paraphrase of this excerpt directly underneath using appropriate APA citations. Use the link below and the paraphrasing guidelines outlined in Lecture 2 to assist you.
In addition, select at least two posts that your classmates have made and comment on what they did well with their paraphrasing, and what they could have done differently.
The DQ response must be 150-200 words and have at least one citation and one reference in APA format.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/
Answer:
The debate about the effectiveness of the liberal arts curriculum is centuries old, but recent financial and social pressures have placed the survival of the liberal arts in the United Stated at even greater risk. Using Kimball’s (1995) notion of the oratorical and philosophical traditions of liberal education, this article first identifies the critical importance of balancing breadth and depth in the curriculum before honing in on breadth as being particular danger in the current climate. After analyzing the major threats to breadth in Amercian higher education, the article looks oversees to find a new case for the value of breadth in the curriculum. It focuses on Hong Kong’s university system, where a large-scale, multiyear project is underway to graft a fourth year of general education onto a three-year model of discipline-or profession-specific training. The resulting contrast between American institution discarding curricular breadth while foreign universities rediscover it is telling. This topic has particular relevance for Christian colleges and universities as they seek the holistic development of their students.
My thoughts are that American Universities are behind when it comes to educating and training our future employers and leaders. I am a graduate of a liberal arts college and I only took two years of general studies and to years of my major which was sociology. I took one year of Spanish and one course in computers. There should be four years of a foreign language so students can be bilingual and therefore will make them more marketable in the workplace which in turn make more money. I also feel that there should be more computer classes like programming and coding so one has better knowledge in this technological society.
We will never be able to compete with Hong Kong’s educational system. If Hong Kong is having a four year general studies program along with an additional three year’s discipline-or profession-specific training, that entails give them an edge on a broader and more intense education.
References
Logan, J., Curry, J. 1995. Christian Higher Education: Global Trends and Challenges, v14 n1-2 p66-79 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15363759.2015.973344
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