Becoming A Learner and General Education

Watch the video below. It is 11 minutes long. Please make sure you have 11 minutes to focus on the video.

Becoming A Learner: General Education (Links to an external site.)

After watching the video, in the box below, respond to all 3 parts of this assignment:

According to the video, what is the relationship between:
athletes doing exercises that are not performed during competition (i.e. football players doing squats)

and

college students taking classes about content not used in the career (i.e. communications majors taking college algebra)

In the box below, please type #1 and describe this relationship in 1-3 sentences (30 points).

  1. The second task is to relate the video to Ch. 19 of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Compare:

Dr. Sanders' video, particularly the last part from 9:45-11:48,

to

what Harari says is important, specifically in the subsection of Ch 19, "The Heat is On" (p. 266)?

In the box below, please type #2 and describe this relationship in 1-3 sentences (30 points).

  1. The third task is to find a website or online article that describes what employers want from college grads. Try searching "what employers look for in college graduates" or "what employers look for when hiring an accountant" or something similar or specific to your future profession.

In the box below, please type #3 and paste the link to the website or article (10 points) and :

What is the relationship between:

what employers look for in college graduates (use the article you found)

and

general education (use the video, or the general education courses you have to take at FSW, or FSW's eight general education competencies).

In the box below, as part of #3, describe this relationship in 1-3 sentences (30 points).

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