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Launching Into Life After College, Leonard J. Shedletsky, Jeanette Andonian Dr., David Bantz Dr., Dennis Gibson Mfa
Launching Into Life After College, Leonard J. Shedletsky, Jeanette Andonian Dr., David Bantz Dr., Dennis Gibson Mfa
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ABSTRACT This chapter reports on a course that is designed to facilitate the students’ transition out of college and into life after graduation. It describes how the course foregrounds the problems students face, both the technical aspects of the transition and the emotional experience, unthought out ideas about what the students want, their goals, and how they might go about achieving their goals. The authors report on the course culture, assignments, observations from teaching the course, student feedback from focus groups, surveys, behavior, as well as summaries of data on the student’s experience. The need for this course is supported …
Seeing Bullshit Rhetorically: Human Encounters And Cultural Values, Leonard Shedletsky
Seeing Bullshit Rhetorically: Human Encounters And Cultural Values, Leonard Shedletsky
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This essay explores the idea that calling bullshit exemplifi es Mercier and Sperber”s social intuitionist theory. It discusses a range of empirical research related to bullshit, including belief in the worldviews of Individualist vs. Communitarian and Hierarchical vs. Egalitarian with regard to accepting and rejecting ideas. Calling bullshit fits well with using the heuristics of like/not like and cognitive mechanisms of debunking misinformation.