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As students in a STEM First Year experience course, we have realized that our class has been more centralized on reprogramming the ways in which we think about our academic decisions instead of it\u2019s \u201cintended\u201d purpose. When discussing liberal arts, we were taught that this tradition intends to open people’s minds to the world around them and in return, create \u201cwell rounded, whole people\u201d. However, this liberal arts tradition is making students feel invalidated in their choice to focus their lives around a STEM career. We believe there is a solution to this problem. Removing certain goals from the FYE syllabus will help narrow the focus on the important learning outcomes that will be beneficial to a student’s future in a stem career. As Friere says in The \u2018Banking\u2019 Concept of Education, <\/em>\u201cThe solution is not to \u2018integrate\u2019 them into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become \u201cbeings for themselves\u201d (p. 2, par. 8). We believe our system will do just that. Higher education is pushing to homogenize students’ ideologies of their major personal decisions. In Freire’s essay, The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education, <\/em>he states, \u201c…no one teaches another, nor is anyone self taught. People teach each other.\u201d Both the educators and students are responsible for this growing epidemic. Some would say the teachers are not the primary determinant for student’s success. However, since they are designing the syllabus, they are setting us up for failure. In order to solve this growing problem, the syllabus must be revised to include only the most vital student student learning outcomes. If we remove redundant course content, the FYE will be adjusted to better fit the students’ needs and expectations of what the course should offer. The current syllabus is cluttered with tasks that students are expected to complete\/ participate in that deem to be unimportant. However, the course does include essential goals for students. Dedicating an entire unit to the Liberal Arts is a waste of time for STEM students to be engulfed in, even if this tradition can teach beneficial skills. A brief overview of the Liberal Arts tradition does appear to be appropriate for students, but the elimination of the continued lessons\/ tasks will create more time for the course to focus on lessons that will lead to professional success. For example,the ideologies of learning strategies and identifying poor learning habits is important for students to know and fully understand in their entire college experience. If this leaning goal is skimmed over or poorly addressed, the majority of students will struggle with this. Students can also take advantage of this FYE by creating connections with the teachers outside of their majors. Freire states, \u201cFrom the outset, her efforts must coincide with those of the students to engage in critical thinking and the quest for mutual humanization. His efforts must be imbued with a profound trust in people and their creative power. To achieve this, they must be partners of the students in their relations with them\u201d (p 2, par 7). Networking will open the doors to new, unexpected opportunists. To benefit from this course, there needs to be alterations to the syllabus and the step forward to create relationships with teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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