Ben Webster

Mrs. Thomas

UWRT 1101

10/2/18

Writing Chart Entry 1

Catherine Seraphin, the Digital Media Project Manager at Harvard University, argues for the use of

general education classes in a higher education setting in her article titled “ General Education

Requirements: What's the Point?” Seraphin reveals that General Education classes have multiple

benefits that go unmentioned. She reveals that students need to learn how to apply skills in one class to

another subject entirely. General education classes “prepare students not for the world that’s there

now, but for the world coming in five to 10 years, where none of us know what’s going to happen.”

Which helps defend her point that one skill people forget general education classes provide is the ability

to discover. I disagree with her. I feel a student would be more likely to further explore a topic they

enjoy than a topic they are being forced to complete. I think General Education for freshmen may be

helpful due to undeclared majors and potential unreadiness for college rigor. However, continued

requirements for a field beyond a student’s major is pointless. How can struggling to do Calculus

problems help a writing student. The average citizen doesn’t do Calculus on the everyday basis so

making it a math requirement seems counter-productive in my opinion.

Title Credibility Summary Agree/Disagree Quotes Analysis Other

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Title Credibility Summary Agree/Disagree Quotes Analysis Other

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