HONORS
"We learn because we want to, not because we have to, so we learn faster. We learn deeper." –Neal Shusterman
Fall 2015: The Idea of the University
Reaching Out: Ambitions of the Literary Woman
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Writers Matthew Arnold and Virginia Woolf enter conversation regarding the relationship between women, higher education, and literature. Women must read and write and share their work to participate in the culture of literary women.
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This essay was a recipient of the Eloquentia Perfecta award.
Fiction in the University and the Quest for Wholeness
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There comes a day when fiction loses its use as an educational tool. Or does there? I engage with researchers such as Robert J. Marshall, Alan Bleakley, Kaela Jubas, and Patricia Knutson to consider why fiction can be an effective teaching tool in a university setting. Fiction may be essential to cultivating the whole student in an education setting. (Also, I made a Star Trek reference, if that helps.)
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Fall 2015: Philosophical Explorations
Avengers: Ethics of Ultron
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In an improbable but entertaining turn of events, Socrates, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Stuart Mill, Virginia Held, and I sit down for a movie night together. While we watch Avengers: Age of Ultron a dispute breaks out over the moral implications of building a machine like Ultron. This was my final assignment in this class, in lieu of a test.
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