12/5/2018 2 Comments exam post I really enjoyed taking “Intro to Interdisciplinary Studies” even though it was nothing like I thought it was going to be. I thought this course was just going to be a simple class where we start to figure out our majors and what we want to do for a job when we graduate but it was so much more than that. I thought we would be learning basic material and content covered during the course on how IDS works. Once the course started I soon realized that this course was going to be somewhat intense. The first few classes we went over different assignment we were going to do over the semester and I started to get a little worried because most of the assignment involved writing and I was not a very strong writer. Once I started the assignments I soon started to become better at writing and really enjoyed it. I learned so many new techniques over the semester that will really help me in my other classes, my career and my life. A few new things I learned while taking this course were; how to use twitter properly, how to annotate articles online, how to make a website, post on the website, and I also learned what interdisciplinary really means. Before taking this course I really didn’t have any idea what “interdisciplinary” meant. I had a little understanding that it meant combining different majors into one. Once we started learning information on interdisciplinary and reading a bunch of articles about it, I had a better understanding. Interdisciplinary has to do with so many different thing, like the way teachers teach, the way we learn, combining different studies into one and so much more. I realized that everyone's perspective of “interdisciplinary” is different. My understanding of IDS changed over the course of the semester. It turns out interdisciplinarity is actually the combination of at least two majors, but there can be more involved. I believe most people in my class are combining 2 or 3 different majors into one. The concept of interdisciplinary also takes a different perspectives, that can yield unexpected pathways that were not visible before. I have learned from this that there are extra resources beyond the classroom. All this information has helped me learn that interdisciplinary is so much more than just combining to majors. Through this course I have learned so many new terms and concepts that have really helped me with my own IDS program and plans. Like I have mentioned in previous posts my IDS contract concentrates on health and psychology. I’m combining these two fields of study into a mental health major where I learn about different mental health diseases and all the different ways of treatment. IDS has been a great way for me to learn so much new information I wouldn’t have learned if I just stuck to one major. Having two different majors has really opened my eyes to so much. Each day I take different classes where I learn totally different information but somehow it always ends up relating back to one another. Reading through all the different assigned articles, I have learned how IDS fits into the education system. Every assignment we have throughout the course there is an article that explains to us why we are doing it, for example, why we post our writing assignments on our websites for the public to see. The article “How Public? Why Public?” explains this very well. This article talks about how a student sharing their work beyond the classroom motivated them to write meaningful work so that the world can see it. I believe this really works because since I have know my work is going out into the public I always want it to be as perfect as it can, so I always try to do my best on each assignment. A term that related to this article and that has always stood out to me is “Transdisciplinarity”. This term is defined as “building bridges across disciplines, but also across the disciplinary structures altogether, linking the academic world with the practical world” (DeRosa) I think this is an good term because it is involved in the academic work but also related to the real world, just like our IDS assignments. I think by connecting to the world outside of the classroom is a great way to “provide social supports for learning through social media and online affinity groups”. (Ito, Gutierrez & Livingstone) Interdisciplinary is important to colleges, universities and the world. It is important because it is the new approach to gaining further education on individual fields of interest. This type of study allows the student to learn by making connections between ideas and concepts across different disciplinary boundaries. Students learning in this way are able to apply the knowledge gained in one discipline to another different discipline as a way to deepen the learning experience. More students are struggling just picking one major to study throughout their college career so they are realizing that interdisciplinary studies is a major where they can combined whatever fields of study that interest them. I think that interdisciplinary learning is much butter than a restricted learning environment. My experiences with Interdisciplinary learning so far has sharpened my ideas about the world knowledge. I hope during my last three semesters here at PSU I will continue to combine the best of several subject areas around a single theme that allows me to experience college in a way that interests and inspires me. I have really enjoy learning a variety of content about heath and psychology that is interesting and nonrestrictive. Once I get my degree in mental health I plan to work with people who have mental health disorders and help treat them. I think the IDS program has done a great job with open education and I hope that continuous and expands.
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12/4/2018 0 Comments 11/28 eport postTwo classes that I am taking that interest me are Abnormal Psychology and Principles of Health. I have learned a lot of different information in both of these classes but I have also learned some similar things. In my Abnormal Psychology class taught by Beth Benoit, I am learning symptoms, causes, and methods of treatment of the major forms of psychopathology. In my Principles of Health class taught by Lynn Bates, I am learning about the fundamental issues related to health. I am learning different outcomes include understanding all the dimensions of health, health behaviors, and how to solve different health issues. The thing that I have found the most interesting to learn about in my psychology class is about personality disorders. The textbook we use in this class says “People with a personality disorder display an enduring, rigid pattern of inner experience and outward behavior that impairs their sense of self, emotional experiences, goals, capacity, from empathy, and/or capacity for intimacy.” (Comer, p.421) I find this to be really interesting because there are so many kinds of personality disorders and each person who has one has different symptoms and reacts to treatment differently. The thing that I have found the most interesting in my health class is about stress. I found this to be interesting because stress is something most people have in their everyday life. In this class our professor taught us a few different ways to manage stress because most college student experience a lot of stress, with homework, work, exams, family, and friends. Professor Bates told us to “Exercise regularly, get enough sleep, eat healthy, learn time management, learn and practice relaxation techniques”. These two different things I found interesting do actually relate to one another. People with personality disorders, people who are friends with and family who live with someone with this disorder usually have a lot of stress from this. Stress management would be a great tool for these certain people to learn. Personality disorders and stress management also relate to my major which is mental health. Mental health is something that should be very important in everyone's lives. It’s important because it includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Mental health affects how we think, feel, and act. Stress is something that can affect our mental health by making us emotional so it's good to manage it regularly. Personality disorder is also something that affects mental health by changing our feelings and behaviors. This interesting information I am currently learning about stress and personality disorders will help me in the future. When I graduate and get a degree in Mental Health I hope that I get to help treat people that have these different disorders. I think by learning this information about what stress can do to your body/mind and what people with personality disorders are going through it will really help me connect with these certain people. 12/3/2018 0 Comments PLN ePort PostI’m a interdisciplinary studies major concentrating on mental health. For this major I take a lot of health and psychology class. I find these class to be very interesting and I’m always learning new information from lectures and textbooks but wouldn’t it be cool to learn new information on social media? That what my PLN plan is for! My PLN plan is a twitter account. I made this twitter account a few months ago and I have already learned so much new information, about technology, new treatment for health, the brain and so much more. By sharing the information we are learning, on social media it teaches other. I found this quote from Why Openness in Education? to be very interesting “Education is, first and foremost, an enterprise of sharing. In fact, sharing is the sole means by which education is effected.” (Wiley & Green) My twitter account is called hailey’s health. I named my account this because I wanted to concentrate on the mental health field. I follow many different twitter accounts about psychology and health. A few different accounts I follow are Mindfulness Wellness, WebMD, Women’s Health, Psychology Living, Whole Food Market and many more. These different twitter accounts and even twitter itself has taught me so much about technology. I made a personal twitter account about four years ago but I never really used it, I would go onto it and read what people posted sometimes but that was about it. I never really understood it till this year. I have learned how to tweet, retweet, comment and favorite. Twitter is an awesome way to learn about new information happening all around the world and also a great way to get your own ideas out there for people to see and comment on. My PLN plan is really preparing me for the future. Technology is always changing even if we don’t think it needs to. There are always new website, new ways to do things, new apps and so much more. By having this twitter account I can always be caught up from twitter updating itself or from seeing post. My PLN plan will also prepare me for a job in the future. When I apply for a job, I can put on my resume that I am up to date on all the new technology and that will give me the upper hand on other people applying for the same position. I think a PLN is great experience for everyone. |
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