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

Josefson: Learning Is Not Fun

Shapiro: Liberal Education, Moral Education

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

Callahan: Cheating from the Starting Line (also click here)

Academic Integrity Policy (also see in Inquiry text)

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

Andersen: The Emperor's New Clothes

Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant

Calandra: Angels on a Pin

Kraybill: The Riddle of Amish Culture

Plato: Allegory of the Cave

Andersen: The Emperor's New Clothes

Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant

 

2. Questions you should be ready to answer (see the R-drive file for more information & tips):

 

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

 

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