Foundation Exam Question Poll Please mark "yes" for questions that you want to keep in the question pool and "no" for questions you want to remove.Name First Last 1. How does language influence culture? yes no 2. Can authors’ ideas be separated from their culture/cultural background? yes no 3. Is it better to have a very nuanced language or a more general, well-understood language? Consult our authors for advice. yes no 4. Language is viewed by our authors as what makes us exceptional, but they also focus on its ability to do harm. Evaluate how our authors discuss language and the role it plays in our lives. yes no 5. How do our authors discuss their origin stories, or the creation myths of their culture? Why do we have these stories? yes no 6. CRT utilizes narratives or storytelling as a valid and compelling way of getting at truth. How do our authors utilize this concept in their writing to convey their personal truth to wider society? yes no 7. Consider a current issue. Discuss how our authors’ work might aid in addressing this issue. yes no 8. Explore how gender, race, and/or ethnicity impact our authors’ work as well as how that work is perceived. yes no 9. Which authors did you find most relevant for a 2021 Liberal Arts education? Make sure to go into detail about the authors’ views, to explain how they relate to contemporary society, and to thoroughly reason and argue for your choices. yes no 10. Which authors did you find least relevant for a 2021 Liberal Arts education? Make sure to go into detail about the authors’ views, to explain why in your view they are not sufficiently relevant for contemporary society, and to thoroughly reason and argue for your choices. yes no 11. What does social justice mean for our authors? What helps or hinders social justice? yes no 12. Discuss how our authors use God to explore ideas in their writing. yes no 13. Evaluate the ways in which our authors might promote social change in our society today. yes no 14. How do our concepts of identity and memory, individual and cultural, affect our place in the world? yes no 15. What is the purpose of education? What do we need our citizenry to know? Discuss how our authors might answer these questions. yes no 16. To what extent do our authors view crisis and conflict as necessary for progress? yes no 17. In what ways do our authors postulate animals as “others” against which human nature is defined? yes no 18. Some might say there has never been a truly selfless act––that every deed one commits is either tacitly or explicitly for that individual's short or long term benefit. Using the texts and authors we’ve read this semester, either defend or refute this statement. yes no 19. What is the relationship between language, culture, and individual thought? Can these entities stand on their own or are they inextricably linked? Is one entity more influential than the others? Why or why not? yes no 20. Our three units for this course are in constant conversation with each other. For this question, choose at least one text from each unit and consider how societies (and their constituents) are informed/created/complicated by knowledge, truth, and human nature. yes no 21. Humanism makes clear that human beings have all the tools to discover and comprehend their own world. Considering what you read this semester, do you agree with this statement? Or, is there something beyond human intellectual work we require to discover the structures/designs of knowledge, truth, human nature, and society? Be specific in your identification of texts that support your agreement or those that discuss what may be absent/needed. yes no 22. Which takes precedence, the freedom of the individual or the collective good? yes no 23. How does the past shape us into who we are today as a person, a society, and/or a species? yes no 24. How do you know that something is true? yes no 25. How do our author’s conceptions of human nature influence their ideas/philosophies/work? yes no 26. Which of the following protocols do you prefer? choose 3 questions and have them write on 2 choose 4 questions and have them write on 2 Δ
