Academic Identities
Over the last few modules, you have been developing your abilities to read and think within and across the academic disciplines. With practice, you can continue to improve your disciplinary literacy your ability to read discipline-specific texts with an insider perspective. Gaining the ability to communicate in different subjects through reading, writing, and speaking also helps you to develop your own personal disciplinary lens.
Your education, work, and life experiences have helped you to develop skills, knowledge, values, and goals. You may have found that your own interests, abilities, or identities lean towards some disciplines, such as science or math, and away from others, such as history or literature. Or you may find that you dont identify with or prefer any of these academic disciplines.
For this assignment, you will write a brief academic identity statement. In 200-500 words, address the following questions.
1. What is your academic background? What are your academic interests?
2. If you have decided on your academic major, describe how and why you decided to pursue a degree in this field. If you have not decided on your academic major, describe an area of interest and how it became of particular interest to you.
3. For your major or your area of interest, to what degree do you think you understand the scope of the discipline? What level of awareness do you have about research or trends in the discipline?
4. At this point in time, what do you plan to do after you complete your bachelors degree? Is there a specific career field or occupation that interests you? Have you considered if you will go on to graduate or professional school? If you are undecided about your future career or profession, name at least one that you think might interest you.
5. Todays graduates will be entering not a career that lasts a lifetime, but a lifetime of multiple careers. How should you prepare academically for this new reality?
