{"id":7,"date":"2012-10-29T21:03:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T21:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cis\/individual-majors-web-portfolios-faculty-review-committees-what-is-a-good-major\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:13:17","slug":"individual-majors-web-portfolios-faculty-review-committees-what-is-a-good-major","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cis\/individual-majors-web-portfolios-faculty-review-committees-what-is-a-good-major\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Good Major?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>A \u201cgood major\u201d:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>develops a cognitive \u201chome\u201d from which to begin to interpret the rest of the world \u2013 a base of experiences and knowledge, fluency with a vocabulary, and methods of interpreting evidence, in relation to which unfamiliar subjects may become meaningful.<\/li>\n<li>develops the capacity for recognizing and interpreting connections, or \u201cfor applying learning from one context to another.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>develops the capacity for analyzing evidence and arguments, and interpreting experiences.<\/li>\n<li>develops an understanding of factors that condition knowledge, and of the origins and histories of ideas and methods in the subject area.<\/li>\n<li>includes \u201creflexivity\u201d \u2013 the opportunity to return to something learned in the past and to reexamine it in light of further learning.<\/li>\n<li>includes learning in community, both by situating new knowledge in the context of the expertise of others, and by promoting the role of conversation in the learning process.<\/li>\n<li>cultivates \u201cthe capacity for relating academic learning to the wider world, to public issues and personal experience.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>includes a culminating opportunity to synthesize a student\u2019s various experiences in the major.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}