Month: October 2020

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Connection (Synthesis) Table – Boyer, Scheuer/Ungar, Major

Project 2 – FYS 110  (Fall ‘20), Cripps

	Boyer	Scheuer/Ungar (yup. Revisit those dudes.)	__PSYC___ Major Req.s
Career/Tech v. Liberal Learn	He talked about how there needs to be a balance between a career/tech major and Liberal learning. He thinks that it’s important to balance the course you are majoring in with a variety of others to pick up necessary skills that may not have been taught in one specific major.	Ungar and Scheurer both talked about the sciences v Liberal arts and though they may have a little different views they both describe the benefits of a liberal education and the possibilities that they can take you. They don’t knock careers and tech careers but they similarly acknowledge that there are benefits with these careers even if students focus too much on them.	A Psych major falls under the area of social science but involves many new science and technology conducting experiments over the years. It is the science of understanding human actions and emotions but has a good combination that keeps new young minds engaged.
History/Tradition	He reflected on history and showed us that there is an increase in technical and science careers and decrease in jobs requiring the liberal arts. This could be from a few things, one could be women are able to explore more career paths, or new advancements in technology has created different career options and criteria for jobs.	They talk about how in the past Liberal arts was more appreciated and that over the years the more advanced we got people shifted from social and personal careers to new kinds of careers. This could be due to differences in times and people exploring more options they have, but it’s clear that there has been way to big a shift and that there should be a balance when attending school.	Over the course of history there have been new studies and methods that have changed the way we view people’s emotions and actions. However some of these new methods include new technology in experiments that help determine the results of different actions.
Social/Economic Implications	In Boyers article they showed us a graph with career changes over the years that can kind of reflect on the economy. In the 60’s there were more careers in social jobs, education, and business all of which were social careers. As the years go on these careers aside from business have decreased and jobs that have affected and increased the economy (health professions & computer science careers).	Much of the shift from the liberal arts to these new careers is that they are financially stable if you can find a career in one. However many people don’t understand that if something were to happen they wouldn’t be equipped to deal with the change. They talk about how the liberal arts can teach skills to adapt with things in life and the value of personal skills. The new careers have major effects on the economy that’s why it draws many young students to these fields.	Socially a psych class offers a background in many careers that involves interpersonal skills and communication with people. Economically there should be more people pursuing a psychology career because there are more and more cases with young students and adults who suffer from depression and other mental illnesses and there aren’t as many psychologists to help.
Ethical/Moral Issues	This was tough because the ethical and moral issues were tough to find. In the past it wasn’t so hard they describe how men wouldn’t even acknowledge a woman’s career unless she had a business major. Now things are a little more complicated, students are looking for a stable career and look to have a job to support them. Although this is admirable it isn’t always what you should look for. He said that there is a difference between getting an education and work. And this is important. If you can learn about a wide variety of jobs the more suited for life you become but if you go to school for your job you are stuck in a fixed mindset. These are kind of moral and ethical issues because you can’t blame someone for wanting a stable life but it’s not going into life as prepared as you could be.	They talk about how there are stereotypes that people formed but that if you can look past you can see values in the liberal arts. It’s not that one is better than the other but that they can benefit each other when in school. They understand the shift but think that liberal arts offers much more	Some ethical and moral issues in psychology is that if information could be leaked from a therapist about a patient it could make issues worse for the patient and the therapist could lose their license. Moral issues are that they may have to hear and deal with disturbing things that they aren’t able to share causing internal problems for the therapist. They do a lot of good and can help people through tough times and if there were more they could solve more problems.
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• Read and annotate Ken Bain’s chapter “Learning How to Embrace Failure.” In your blog post, include at least two good examples of your annotation work. We should be pretty comfortable with our annotation approaches by now.

• Bain’s chapter includes a variety of examples to illustrate approaches/responses to failure. Which one(s) come close to your own response(s) in the past? Quote/describe that example or those examples from Bain. Explain the text-to-self connection by illustrating your connection with at least one specific example from your life.

“Most of the advice I received focused on propping up my faltering confidence. “ You just have to believe you can do it,” coaxed a good friend” This happened a lot from my family members if I had gotten a bad grade in something, but my mom taught me to look at what I got wrong and learn from it. 

• We’re at midterms. How might Bain’s ideas help you put your academic work so far into a context for “success” or making the most of college? You might also bring in Duckworth. Be specific by including textual evidence and details about your term.

This term I have had some struggles and it took me a while to figure out and manage the college workload. I know recently I didn’t do too well on my Psychology exam and instead of saying Ill do better on the next one I went back through the test to see what I got wrong and tried to learn from it. 

• HELPFUL DOUBLE-UP. Use this week’s Audio Journal Entry assignment to focus on academic reflection and making the most of your learning. Let’s “take stock” of our academics as we hit the midpoint!

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• “I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth” (Coates 78). Why might Coates see the killing of Prince Jones in this way? Or, how does shifting the focus from the actions of a single officer to the US and a historical fear of Blacks alter the way we see police violence or killing? In responding to the question, draw a text-to-text connection with another part of Coates’ text.

This is another example of men not being able to be free in their own bodies. History has repeated itself over and over and continues to show our country’s true nature towards black lives. Him being murdered by our country is our own stereotypical fears we have made and allow to take control. 

• “The galaxy belong to them [Whites on West Broadway], and as terror was communicated to our children, I saw mastery communicated to theirs” (Coates 89). What do you think Coates means by this distinction between communicating terror and communicating mastery? Support your response with evidence from the text.

To me this kind of sounded like slavery, white children being grown up to be masters while black children were raised in fear and obresed by the masters. Early on white children run around without a care in the world while young black children were taught to fear the streets and the people around them. The difference in the upcoming of these two different childhood experiences isn’t shocking based how society treats them.

• Offer ONE SIGNIFICANT PASSAGE you will be prepared to read and offer as a vehicle for class discussion. Quote the passage and write a few sentences explaining WHY you chose it and WHAT you’d like us to discuss in it.

Pg 87 “I could see no difference between the officer who killed Prince Jones and the police who died, or firefighters who died.”

• Read “Black and Blue,” an early Ta-Nehisi Coates (link and class handout) newspaper article that reports on Prince Georges County and police brutality. It is nearly 20 years old and written when Coates was just 25. In 2020, what does Coates’ reporting tell you? Why?

This article shows that we haven’t changed and that the only difference is we are starting to hear about these brutal acts. It honestly astonishes me that we are having this problem, I grew up in a small city in Vermont and I was taught that everyone should be equal and couldn’t even fathom that black people weren’t treated the same as I was when I found out. I understand that some people grow up in different ways but it still just blows my mind that these things happen to some of my friends and learning about what they have to deal with on a daily basis. Coates tells us this so we can see what has been happening to his people. Maybe by getting the point across we can actually do something because they can’t be alone. Hopefully our generation can be part of the change now that we are starting to stand up and take action against all this senseless violence.