St. Mary's Core Reflection
Aisha Fain
SMC4301J: Capstone Seminar
February 28, 2017
A First-Hand Review of the St. Mary’s Core
Throughout my entire life in school, I have always had some sort of a private and all-inclusive education. I first began my early childhood and elementary school years within the walls of a private and Catholic school while also continuing the trend of a faith-based education during my middle school and high school years. With this being said, all I have ever known is life within the safety and security of a religious and private education that I was not able to come to the crumbling realization of how fortunate I truly was compared to students with more of a public and state-funded education background. This realization became especially apparent …show more content…
Mary’s was Foundations of Civilization. According to the objectives set by the university, the overall main goal of this course is to provide a common foundation, knowledge, and understanding of all the major civilizations that have shaped the world for what it is today. As for my class in particular, I do remember learning about all early civilizations especially that of the early Mesopotamians and the Aztecs and how these groups were able to build empires as large as what exists today despite the little amount of modern technology that was able to exist. Although the goal of this class was to provide an overall understanding of modern society with the help of reviewing the world’s early history, I am not too sure if the knowledge that I ever obtained in this class ever came back during my reflections in any of my other SMC …show more content…
I must admit that I do not remember anything that stood out to me during my Self class besides waking up super early in the morning to get to class and listening to the professor spend class after class talking about Plato’s Apology and reviewing the SMC Self book that was specially made for the class. If this class did teach me anything, I was able to learn how to think more philosophically and reasonably when making certain decisions as well as learning that I am definitely not a morning person. As for my Nature class, my experience was way more positive as I was able to finally have a complete understanding of the Scientific Method and how to apply it to a real world setting instead of only in a lab. I also feel like I was able to learn more due to the professor’s method of sitting among the students during class and making sure we all felt comfortable enough to share our thoughts and opinions with the help of friendly discussions and reflections on our
SMC4301J: Capstone Seminar
February 28, 2017
A First-Hand Review of the St. Mary’s Core
Throughout my entire life in school, I have always had some sort of a private and all-inclusive education. I first began my early childhood and elementary school years within the walls of a private and Catholic school while also continuing the trend of a faith-based education during my middle school and high school years. With this being said, all I have ever known is life within the safety and security of a religious and private education that I was not able to come to the crumbling realization of how fortunate I truly was compared to students with more of a public and state-funded education background. This realization became especially apparent …show more content…
Mary’s was Foundations of Civilization. According to the objectives set by the university, the overall main goal of this course is to provide a common foundation, knowledge, and understanding of all the major civilizations that have shaped the world for what it is today. As for my class in particular, I do remember learning about all early civilizations especially that of the early Mesopotamians and the Aztecs and how these groups were able to build empires as large as what exists today despite the little amount of modern technology that was able to exist. Although the goal of this class was to provide an overall understanding of modern society with the help of reviewing the world’s early history, I am not too sure if the knowledge that I ever obtained in this class ever came back during my reflections in any of my other SMC …show more content…
I must admit that I do not remember anything that stood out to me during my Self class besides waking up super early in the morning to get to class and listening to the professor spend class after class talking about Plato’s Apology and reviewing the SMC Self book that was specially made for the class. If this class did teach me anything, I was able to learn how to think more philosophically and reasonably when making certain decisions as well as learning that I am definitely not a morning person. As for my Nature class, my experience was way more positive as I was able to finally have a complete understanding of the Scientific Method and how to apply it to a real world setting instead of only in a lab. I also feel like I was able to learn more due to the professor’s method of sitting among the students during class and making sure we all felt comfortable enough to share our thoughts and opinions with the help of friendly discussions and reflections on our