Monday in Cornerstone Kristina Campos shared a Chrysler advertisement that we unpacked together. She discussed the 2011 Super Bowl commercial and the set of cultural assumptions and implications that would have provided its original context. In her process, she walked through three key steps: Check Assumptions – what are the underlying assumptions or biases that…

In our honors section this first week, we explored the ideas Dr. Beck presented in his lecture. We discussed obstacles to critical thinking or those things that make critical thinking difficult. I introduced the concept of the “hermeneutics of suspicion” and notions of “thin” and “thick” description and  invited students to consider an illustration from…