Jamon's first paper
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final At MU there are over 28,000 college students. How does one find himself in this midst of so many others? Like individual follicles of hair each student has his or her place in the student body. For freshmen this marks the ultimate transitional period from childhood to adulthood. With the screams of youth now drowned by responsibility, then silenced further with debt and the restlessness of moral obligation. The young adult's mind is tempted by corruption. It is the University's duty to educate and provide students with the necessary skills to work a secure job. In doing this it is also the university's responsibility to protect the innocent college student's mind from distraction. But what was is corruption, what are distractions and what is the latent goal of a college education that employers are looking for. I believe the answer to this question is Cultural competency. Cultural competency is defined as “an ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures. Cultural competence is comprised of four components: (a) Awareness of one's own cultural world view, (b) Attitude towards cultural differences, (c) Knowledge of different cultural practices and world views, and (d) cross-cultural Skills. Developing cultural competence results in an ability to understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with people across cultures.” (Defined by wikipedia) If college was designed for purely an educational purpose, it would not allow students to be corrupted by alcohol, credit cards, relationships, and partying. Nor would it allow for students to be distracted by technology. There must be something you can get out of these corruptions and distractions and I am willing to bet it is cultural competency
Alcohol corrupts the minds ability to reason. It causes students to wake up late, and perform undesirable actions. Yet on campus alcohol is not entirely illegal. Even for incoming freshmen walking into a dorm intoxicated has no formal consequence. We all know or have heard of someone who has suffered from alcohol poisoning and yet the university continues to tolerate the delinquency of students. Either this means the university I not fulfilling its duty of protecting college students or that the university leaves the responsibility to the students so that they can learn to make wise decisions in regards to alcohol as ____young adults. This corresponds to the definition of cultural competency in the sense that alcohol is a big part of American culture thus one is aware of one's own cultural world view.
Credit Card debt effects millions of Americans. Its a big motivator in making full time students get part time jobs. Most university's expect students to spend 40+ hours a week devoted to studying its hard to Imagen where a student can find additional hours to devote to something else. Yet it is easy to see how college's pressure students to apply for student credit cards by requiring students spend hundreds of dollars on books, dorm room necessities, and general living expenses. If it was the colleges job to protect students from credit cards, they would not offer offer full time students competitive interest rates on master cards issued by the UMB bank, but like alcohol credit card debt is a big part of American culture.
many students enter college with the hopes of finding there life companion. The university has coed dormitories, all of which permit the opposite sex visits as well as allow for members of the opposite sex to stay overnight. The university stance on relationships is positive. Though in some cases relationships can interfere with school, the university provides the perfect environment for finding a girlfriend or boyfriend. Marriage globally is a major part of all cultures. Thus in the university's tolerance in relationships the university acts in the support of world practices and views, another component of cultural competence.
Parties bring a combination of all of that has been stated before. Parties at MU are diverse, from celebrations of traditional holidays, to the celebrations of foreign holiday, even to the celebration of local and national sports teams, Parties at the university are for everyone. One such celebration is the celebration of Holi and Baisakhi on held on April 14th. They both are traditional Indian celebrations open to the general public held inside the Chaplin ball room inside memorial union. It is through parties that all components of cultural competence are met.
Technology has been characterized by many as the solution to many of the worlds problems. But how can distractions like Facebook, or youtube benefit anyone in class? Why are classes designed to allow such distractions to interfere with _____a students concentration. If it was the goal of the university to protect students from these distractions there would be blocks for these websites on the server. However Facebook is an ___tool of cultural competence. Facebook gives students the ability to interact with people from all over the world. It also is a social network in which college professors as well as students are able to interact with each other...
Cultural competency is the latent goal of a diverse education. It is through such said corruptions and distractions the goals of the university are met....
in a video by Michael Wesch and 200 students at Kansas university, students surveyed themselves and listed many of these so called corruptions and distractions as there problems too. I think the point of the video was that; college has become less a place where you learn the skills to work a job and more of a cultural competency boot camp to set up the interactions vital to a modern well cultured life.
The video starts out in an abandon lecture room. There writing along the walls, chairs and chalk board. The question raised is
where I fit in
very good paper jamon, how ever i would write a little more on the last paragraph. i would write something in the blank margarins-ricardo
I like it, the introduction was good, you got your message across well, and gave me some valid points. I gave you a few ideas for word choice in the blanks you left, I'm guessing that's what you wanted? -Drew
