MY THOUGHTS
| I enjoyed this class a lot. Lectures were interesting and opened my mind on the omnipresence and importance of evolution in understanding human behavior and existence. As a humanities student, I got to explore scientific literature, which without this course I would have never done. I believe in the value of interdisciplinary learning. An open mind is built by approaching and understanding the vastness of human knowledge, your ignorance and your impossibility of knowing everything. You pick your field, but are aware of the importance of all fields. You learn the dignity and honor there is in relying on other’s expertise while they hopefully rely back on yours. Specifically, I think this course worked well as an ISP because it allowed you to integrate your own field. For example, I learned how to develop a website, which will be useful in my field and for my graduate school application. I am thinking about adding tabs to my website containing all my written work in my field; scripts, theoretical papers on cinema, film reviews I wrote for Keene State College’s newspaper The Equinox, etc. Furthermore, I now understand how useful Twitter is as a tool. I am following a lot of scriptwriters, producers, and television and film content creators. It’s really cool to be able to see what they think, are up to, and also have the chance to exchange thoughts with them through tweets. All summed up I really like this method of using interdisciplinary courses to teach how to use tools valuable for any field, while also giving access to a different field, understanding its role, importance, and magnitude. I think all interdisciplinary courses should try to accomplish this very goal. It opens the minds of the students, teaches them respect for all fields, and finally makes them aware of their ignorance as acquiring any form of knowledge does anyway. The more you know, the more you realize how little you actually know, and the immensity of what is, and always will be, still there to be learned. |
JacquelineFilmStudent 