In his Spotlight How Do I Know Who I Am? Dr. Greg Straughn will help connect key threads from Cornerstone to the first of three interdisciplinary courses focused on the Question of Identity.
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BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Greg Straughn is an associate professor of music who has recently held the positions of chair of the music department, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and now Dean of the Honors College and Director of the Core. His research interests include the operas of Lully and Wagner and he performs regularly with the Denton and Dallas Bach Societies and the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra as a cellist.
3 responses to “How Do I Know Who I Am?”
One of the good things that students invariably get out of the university experience is the opportunity to ask, think about, and answer philosophical questions. Usually these questions are asked and discussed in informal, ad hoc sessions – over coffee in the Student Union Building.
I think that ACU is to be applauded for attempting to organize this process. It is important (to me as a parent) to be sure that the student will – at the very least – be exposed to the True answer somewhere in the process. The Core classes (potentially, at least) produce this exposure.
IMHO the secret is having the right professors teaching Core. Curricula development is a distant second to having a teacher “on the other end of the log” that believes the right answers (the True answers) and that has the ability and passion to communicate them in a manner that will instigate the thinking process in the student.
Press on. (Philippians 3:12-15)
Like how he talks about how mission work should be at the forefront of our focus and something we should be concerned with. Cornerstone forces you to ask difficult questions about yourself and beliefs.
he was connecting other’s speech to his speech. cornerstone made me who i am. it was a good opportunity to think about relationship between myself and other.