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Liberal Studies Exit Interview

"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus." - Oprah . Liberal Studies Exit Interview. Beth Gaylor May 2010. www.bethgaylor.weebly.com. Resume

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Liberal Studies Exit Interview

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  1. "Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus." - Oprah Liberal Studies Exit Interview Beth Gaylor May 2010

  2. www.bethgaylor.weebly.com Resume Liberal Studies Degree Program

  3. IDST Reflections • An IDST course that stands out in my mind is Dr. Jeff Blick’s Ethics, Society, and Environment. The issues we studied in this class were the epitome of complex problems with complex answers involving viewpoints from many different disciplines. • The next Fall I began my official Liberal Studies journey when I took the seminar class with Dr. Doug Oetter. This course opened my eyes to what interdisciplinary studies is. After taking this course, I began to see the interdisciplinary nature of things that I was studying in almost all of my classes.

  4. Major Course Reflections- GEOG • In my Geography courses, many of the things we studied could be viewed interdisciplinarily. However, I think I was one of the few students who did so. One of my favorite parts of my Geography courses was reading Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World in Dr. Amy Sumpter’s Cultural Geography class. As a companion to our textbook, this book brought what we were studying in class into the real world—the home of interdisciplinarity! “Laugh. Think. Repeat. Repeatedly.” – Po Bronson, author of What Should I Do with My Life?

  5. Major Course Reflections- POLSDr. Greg Kaufman’s Religion and Politics in the United States • This was a fabulous course! I worked harder in that class than in many of my other college classes combined. Having this class during the semester of the Obama/McCain election brought even more excitement to the classroom. We had invigorating class discussions and student presentations, watched convention and election coverage all semester and analyzed the religious rhetoric, and went our into community churches to discuss religion in politics (called a Civic Engagement Project). Again, this was a course where complex problems were discussed all semester long. It had more of a multi-disciplinary aspect to it though- very interesting!

  6. Major Course Reflections- SOCI • Gender and Society with Dr. Sandra Godwin was a wonderful Sociology course that fostered my interdisciplinary thinking. The book to the right was one of our main textbooks for the course. This anthology highlighted personal stories and research that has been done in the field of family issues, sexuality, women’s rights, etc. I would argue that this book was multidisciplinary in its scope. I enjoyed how varied the content was and my ability to form my own thoughts and opinions about the course content.

  7. Major Course Reflections- PSYC • Neither of my Psychology courses were tremendously interdisciplinary, but I did learn a lot in both of them that will help me to be a better educator, and material from both of the courses actually appeared in my senior project! • Learning, Memory, and Motivation with Dr. Michael Rose- learning how we learn and how our we retain and recall information is of critical importance if you want to go into the field of education • Psychology of Stress/Adaptive Functioning with Dr. John Lindsay- learning how to relax was the main objective of this course, all of the anxiety relief training topics listed in my paper were introduced to me in this course, and I found them so beneficial that I will be taking them all into my classroom when I’m a teacher

  8. Examples of Coursework www.bethgaylor.weebly.com

  9. Senior Project

  10. Community Service • With over 500 community service hours completed during my college career, I see all of my 4 years as a service learning experience. • As a member and leader in Gamma Sigma Sigma, I was a part of hundreds of community service projects (on our campus, in the community, around the state, and impacting other parts of the world). • These broadened my views, and I truly believe that serving others is small doorway leading to understanding others, different views, and even just different places. It helps you visualize and understand that you are just one person in an entire community of people and working together you can always achieve more.

  11. Service Learning • My 20 hours of service learning specifically for the Liberal Studies Program were completed at the Chard Wray Food Pantry behind College Station. Steven and I worked most every Friday morning from 9:30-12 last semester. • This specific project opened my eyes to the diversity in Milledgeville outside of our college campus. I think this is extremely important for all college students to do!

  12. Life Plans!

  13. Thank you for all your guidance!

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