{"id":33273,"date":"2024-09-24T00:36:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T00:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/m5-2-discussion-utopia-or-utility-u-general-education-and-education-in-general\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T00:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T00:36:40","slug":"m5-2-discussion-utopia-or-utility-u-general-education-and-education-in-general","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/m5-2-discussion-utopia-or-utility-u-general-education-and-education-in-general\/","title":{"rendered":"M5.2 Discussion: Utopia or Utility U: General Education and Education in General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What is the purpose of a college education? In your reading for this discussion, philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah offers us two models: Is it &#8220;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">utilitarian<\/strong>\u201d- to prepare students for a particular job or career path, or is it \u201c<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">utopian<\/strong>\u201d- shaping students\u2019 character and values to prepare them not just to be good workers, but also good thinkers, good citizens, and positive contributors to our communities? This has been and will continue to be one of the fundamental questions facing the future of higher education in the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">In this module, we learned a lot about the value of general education skills, like writing, ethical reasoning, global understanding, and quantitative reasoning, for students\u2019 current and future career paths. Excelsior\u2019s general education career competencies even include \u201ccareer\u201d right in the title to emphasize their utilitarian value. But is that the only value of general education? Is that the only value of an education in general?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Begin by reading pages 5.1-5.7 of chapter 5 of the webtext on general education and Appiah\u2019s article<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The College Crossroads<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin: 20px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 6px 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; cursor: auto;\">Instructions<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 6px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Your Initial Post<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">By Thursday of Module 5<\/strong>, create an initial post of at least 250 words that responds to each of the prompts below:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Do you believe the true purpose of higher education is utopian or utilitarian in the United States? Why?<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Do you believe colleges and universities have a responsibility to teach general education competencies like global understanding, cultural diversity, and expression? Why or why not?<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Choose one other country to examine. How does the United States&#8217; higher education system differ from this other country in its priorities, values, or end goals for students? Do you think each system prepares students adequately for a globally interconnected society and workforce?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">As part of your response, use and cite<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">at least one appropriate outside source*<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>that speaks to higher education in another country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">*<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">You must cite your source in<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">APA reference list format<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>at the bottom of your initial post. Your outside source can come either from the<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Excelsior Library<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>or a Google search. However, in either case, make sure to evaluate the source for relevance, authority, currency, objectivity, and verifiability as we learned in Module 3, and do not use sources that are lacking in any of these criteria.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the purpose of a college education? In your reading for this discussion, philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah offers us two models: Is it &#8220;utilitarian\u201d- to prepare students for a particular job or career path, or is it \u201cutopian\u201d- shaping students\u2019 character and values to prepare them not just to be good workers, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[55],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=33273"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=33273"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=33273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}