Scheme as an expository language for liberal arts students

Thinking Through Improvisation implies two meanings: 1) carefully examining all that improvisation encompasses including how it is practiced, and 2) using improvisation to generate ideas or performances. Using a First Year Seminar course I taught for 20 years, I illustrate how a general course in improvisation can introduce students to improvisation as a way of thinking in diverse fields and can strengthen liberal arts skills in critical and creative thinking. Interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches are readily incorporated as are a range of activities including writing, critical reading, performance, and creative problem solving. Risk taking, trust, creativity, adaptability, teamwork, respect for knowledge, abstract and practical thinking and the joy of creative discovery are explored through discussion and practice of improvisation. Scientific explanations of improvisation are compared to subjective experiences of improvisational performance. These activities lay a groundwork for creative explorations of the discipline-oriented curriculum in the range of fields subsequently encountered by liberal arts students.

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AVOD: Vocational Direction for Liberal Arts Students

Vocational Guidance Quarterly ◽

10.1002/j.2164-585x.1976.tb00935.x ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 271-273

Author(s):

Louis V. Paradise

Keyword(s):

Liberal Arts ◽

Liberal Arts Students

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BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: Possibilities and Flaws: Physical Science for Liberal Arts Students

The Physics Teacher ◽

10.1119/1.2350073 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 376-377

Author(s):

Hugo N. Swenson ◽

J. Edmund Woods ◽

Robert Gardner

Keyword(s):

Liberal Arts ◽

Physical Science ◽

Liberal Arts Students ◽

Film Reviews

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Intervention Outcomes, Anxiety, Self-Esteem, and Self-Efficacy With DHH Students in Universities

The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education ◽

10.1093/deafed/enaa027 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 58-69

Author(s):

Samta P Pandya

Keyword(s):

Self Efficacy ◽

Liberal Arts ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Highly Qualified ◽

Post Test ◽

Liberal Arts Students ◽

Commerce Students ◽

Spiritual Counseling ◽

The Impact ◽

Academic Self Efficacy

Abstract This article reports the impact of an online spiritual counseling (OSC) program in mitigating anxiety and building self-esteem and academic self-efficacy among deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students in universities. Compared to online relaxation sessions, the OSC was more effective. Male DHH students and those whose parents were highly qualified exhibited less anxiety and higher self-esteem and self-efficacy at pretest (T1). Post-test (T2) male students having better educated parents responded better to the OSC. T2 anxiety was lower and self-esteem and academic self-efficacy was higher for liberal arts students and having stay-at-home parents compared with science and commerce students and whose parents worked outside home. Self-esteem was also positively moderated by better economic class and presence of siblings. Intervention compliance in terms of regular attendance and self-practice mediated the relationship between sociodemographic predictors and outcomes. Results support the biopsychosocial model and encourage the implementation of the OSC with DHH university students.

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