Essay - Education Philosophy - Curricula Considering Mandatory College Curiculum Requirements 1....

Education Philosophy - Curricula

CONSIDERING MANDATORY COLLEGE CURICULUM REQUIREMENTS

1. Mandatory Academic Requirements in Math, Science and Foreign Language:

***** is supposed to provide a comprehensive education that prepares students for the professional environment where *****y may encounter the need for knowledge in many areas in addition to their particular field of academic focus. Mathematics skills are required in ***** common daily applications, such as financial negotiations, personal finances, complying with U.S. tax codes, mortgages, and myriad other specific circumstances where ignorance of basic mathematics is detrimental ***** one's interests.

Likewise, we live in an age where science permeates our lives in practically every respect. Modern motor vehicles employ sophisticated internal mechanisms; we take regular medications to maintain ***** health ***** address diseases, some of which require an understanding of potential adverse interactions that can have deadly consequences; and our kitchen appliances include microwave ovens emitting microwave radiation to cook ***** food. Perhaps the most ubiquitous aspects ***** ***** inclusion of science into our daily lives is the ***** computer ***** many of us use for essential communications, research, and even on-line shopping and bill-paying. Maintaining personal computer hardware and implementing regular software updates requires a degree of scientific understanding that one learns in general ***** classes in college. One of ***** most important aspects of scientific appreciation is the nature ***** ***** scientific method, ***** applies just as well to non-***** matters. Mandatory college science c*****ses ********** ***** to the principle of scientific inquiry, which may be even more ***** than much of the subject matter actually covered in the class. More than ever **********e, ***** is a part of American life and, therefore, a person who is ignorant of ***** pr*****ciples is h*****icapped by virtue of that ignorance.

The world ***** rapidly becoming smaller in the sense that increasing globalization now enables domestic business entities to branch out ***** foreign markets and reach potential customer ***** client bases that greatly increase revenue ***** over ***** strictly domestic scope ***** modern business. In that sense, the usefulness of multiple language fluency is much greater ***** it was for previous generations of college students.

Whereas in the recent past American ***** studied the so-called "classic" languages ***** as French, Greek, and Latin, those ***** represented purely academic achievements rather than functional necessity. However, today, the complexion of American society h***** also c*****anged significantly in the last few decades and bilingual capacity, especially in Spanish, is becoming a virtual necessity in modern American bus*****ess as well as in ordinary, every day social life. Further*****, the modern ***** economy is so unstable that choices of career made in college may no longer ***** a permanent narrow vocational application.

Unlike previous generations of American students, contemporary adults may undergo more ***** changes through***** a ********** than *****ir parents, ***** of whom reta*****ed the same position, (or at least ***** same vocational field) from the time of their college graduation until their retirement. Consequently, *****ing one's educational focus to one specific area of instruction