David Brooks has written an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times called History for Dollars in which he advocates for studying the humanities, and it has me nogging. Brooks argues that studying the humanities will make a person more employable because they will be able to read and write well, will deeply understand human [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Literature’
My Third And Final Major Was English
Posted in Blogs, Books, Employment, Goals, Higher Education, Language, Learning, Liberal Arts, Life, Literature, Money, Professional Development, reading, Reflection, Work, Writing, tagged blog, education, Employment, highereducation, integration, knowledge, Language, Learning, liberalarts, Life, Literature, problemsolving, reflection, Work, Writing on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Add It Up: 45 Credits Of Prior Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Life, Literature, PLA, tagged adultlearners, Life, Literature, Marylhurst, PLA on October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Barbara Eckroad recently submitted her PLA Portfolio for the maximum number of credits allowed — 45! For Barbara, all of that life experience has added up — big time! Congrats Barbara! Barbara is an Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in English, Literature & Writing, Media Studies, and Religious Studies. The topics she wrote for were: [...]
Vanity Books
Posted in Literature, tagged Books, Literature on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently wrote a post about a cool new website called Wordnik. I have some words and phrases that I would like to contribute to Wordnik because, well, it might be neat if other people could find a use for them as well. So I thought I would start my contributions here. The first phrase [...]
What’s Here?
PrattleSquawks
- Roll-your-sleeves up with data: http://t.co/YxRCS1iv 3 days ago
- Is your assessment in #highered "actionable?" http://t.co/f0DerZ80 6 days ago
Blog Topics
Tags
Marylhurst Service Program BlogCreative Commons
PrattleNog by Melanie Booth is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
