Science & Technology Social Studies
Recommended for: All Business Majors
Identify one course you have taken during your college career which has helped you develop skills or abilities that may be useful or necessary in your future workplace(s). Explain what those skills and/or abilities are, and how the course helped you identify and develop them.
Recommended for: All Education Majors
Identify one undergraduate course you have taken that has challenged or influenced you either academically and/or personally; and explain how the specific ideas, experiences, or concepts from this course influence your thinking about your future profession.
Recommended for: Any Major
Identify one academic or university-based experience which has challenged, changed, or helped you clarify your views of a particular subject. Explain not only how your views were challenged, changed, or clarified, but also why this change is worth noting or significant for you.
Recommended for: Art, English, Foreign Language, Music, Theater, Visual Communication Majors
Identify one course or learning experience you have had during your college career which has been particularly challenging for you. Explain why you found that course or learning experience challenging, and what you learned about yourself as a student as a result.
Recommended for: Architecture, Computer Studies, Consumer Sciences, Health Sciences, Industrial Technology, Math, Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences Majors (etc.)
Identify one course you have taken during your college career that has encouraged you to see the impact that professionals in your area of study can have on society. Explain what that impact is and how this course helped you be aware of it.
Recommended for: Communication Studies, Criminal Justice, History, Journalism, Natural Sciences, Psychological Sciences, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Telecommunications, and Political Science Majors
According to its mission statement, the primary emphasis of Ball State's University Core Curriculum is to prepare students for "roles people share as human beings and as members of family and community groups." Identify one course you have taken during your college career that encourages students to achieve this goal, and explain how this particular course has been of benefit to you.