which perspective do you prefer?
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How do scholars view the world ? K ay Sagmiller , Director Center for Teaching and Learning Oregon State University. Which perspective do you prefer?. The 3 Perspectives of General Education. Social Sciences: Why do individuals and groups of people behave as they do? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
How do scholars view the world?
Kay Sagmiller, DirectorCenter for Teaching and Learning
Oregon State University
Which perspective do you prefer?
The 3 Perspectives of General Education
Social Sciences: Why do individuals and groups of people behave as they do?
The Sciences: What forces create and influence the natural world?
The Arts and Humanities: Why do we exist?
Why are you…who you are today?
Ask the Social Sciences
AnthropologyPsychologyEducationEconomicsPolitical ScienceHistoryGender and Women’s studiesCriminology and Criminal JusticeBusinessHealth and Physical Education
In what way does where you grow up influence who you are?
Where do you belong?
Whose history was told?
Whose history was not told?
How will your history shift who you are?
Why are you…who you are today?
Ask the Sciences• Biology• Chemistry• Physics• Environmental Studies: Geology,
Geography• Computer Science
Was it genetics?
Was it chance?
What data can be trusted?
Why are certain patterns repeated in the natural world?
What discoveries resulted from a scientists’ mistake?
What problems can science solve?
What problems have science and technology caused?
Why are you…who you are today?
Ask the Arts and Humanities
• Art• Philosophy• Literature• Writing... Writing... Writing...Writing• Communication
• Foreign Languages• Theatre Arts• Music
Were you divinely inspired to be who you are?
How do you communicate who you are?
What does the music I listen to, say about me?
Why do people create?
What is a good life?
What makes a book worth reading?
What stories are universal?
Our Bacc Core…• Helps us form critical questions• Provides insights to difficult and
complex problems• Enables multiple perspectives• Invites empathy for others• Illustrates the connections between
people, ideas, and places• Invigorates and sustains our democracy
You learn…as you…• Read• Discuss• Write• Contemplate• Solve problems• Collaborate• Innovate
Who will you become?• An artist who paints endangered
species?• A criminologist who writes murder
mysteries?• A biologist who creates mosaics
representing flora and fauna?• A business person who volunteers at
a women’s shelter?
The Sciences
Social Sciences
Place shapes people.
How does our past influence our
present?