Honors INQ 111: Quiz 1

 

1) Terms (70%): identify 10 of 12 terms for which a brief description will be given (a list of all the terms will be provided)

 

2) Short-answer questions (30%): several short-answer questions

 

 

For review:

 

1. Materials covered through 25 Sep (focus on significant issues in the readings below):

 

•Inquiry preliminaries (Inquiry, v–xiv)

•Fisher: Effective Learning (also in Inquiry text)

•Knight: LIberal Arts Gave Me a Liberal Dose of Life Lessons

•Newman: The Idea of a University (excerpts)

•Westminster College: Mission Statement

•Finkelmeyer: Grades; cf. "Traditional Letter Grades" (Inquiry, xii)

•Academic Integrity Policy (Also in Inquiry text & on R-drive)

•Plato: Allegory of the Cave (take notes showing analysis of the allegory): draw the cave described in the allegory

•Jones: Questions and Answers

•Andersen: The Emperor's New Clothes

•Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant

•Calandra: Angels on a Pin

•Csikszentmihalyi: Veils of Maya

•Kraybill: The Riddle of Amish Culture

•Shapiro: Liberal Education, Moral Education

•Genesis: The Tree of Knowledge (cf. The Girls)

 

•Schwehn & Bass: Preface, Introduction, Prologue

•Schwehn & Bass: Authenticity: Taylor

•Schwehn & Bass: Authenticity: Stanton

 

2. Questions you should be ready to answer:

 

1) What is liberal arts education? (e.g., Jones, Knight, Newman, Shapiro, WC mission statement)

 

2) How do the following texts interrelate, and how do they relate to some of the goals of Inquiry (NB: this assumes your knowledge of some of the goals of Inquiry):

 

    • Andersen

    • Blind Men and the Elephant

    • Calandra's "Angels on a Pin"

    • Csikszentmihalyi

    • Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

    • Shapiro

 

3) What is critical thinking? Why is it important? What 3 texts speak to this issue? How so?

 

4) What does seeing have to do with epistemology?

 

3. highlighted terms on the R-drive