Late last month I was given the opportunity to be an adjunct professor at Salt Lake Community College. \u00a0I looked up the definition of Adjunct once before; it means unnecessary. \u00a0I like being the unnecessary professor. \u00a0I’ve been an adjunct once before at Dixie State University. \u00a0I taught digital art classes there. \u00a0I taught classes on how to use Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. \u00a0I enjoyed teaching. \u00a0 I like the tools they give professors to teach college. \u00a0Both Dixie and SLCC use the Canvas LMS(<\/p>\n
I’ve been an adjunct once before at Dixie State University. \u00a0I taught digital art classes there. \u00a0I taught classes on how to use Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. \u00a0I enjoyed teaching. \u00a0 I like the tools they give professors to teach college. \u00a0Both Dixie and SLCC use the Canvas LMS(<\/p>\n
I’ve been an adjunct once before at Dixie State University. \u00a0I taught digital art classes there. \u00a0I taught classes on how to use Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. \u00a0I enjoyed teaching. \u00a0 I really like the tools they give professors to teach college. \u00a0Both Dixie and SLCC use the Canvas LMS(learning Management system). \u00a0All of the assignments are in Canvas and that is where the students turn in their work. The students don’t have to turn in any paper.<\/p>\n
The class I am teaching now is Foundations for Business – The class objective is to teach the students Critical Thinking. \u00a0The way critical thinking is defined, in the text I am using, is the ability to detect error. \u00a0Or in other words, The process of finding the truth. \u00a0 The readings for the class include writings from Adam Smith, Henry David Through, Karl Marx, Carnegie, Moi, Ghandi, and others. \u00a0All of the readings so far, we’ve only studied, three try to through religion under the bus for getting in the way of progress. \u00a0 What is good about critical thinking is that it suggests that everything be questioned, using scientific methods, to prove the truth.<\/p>\n
One of the paradoxes of the religious right in this country is this, Christian religions teach us that greed is bad, where on the other hand greed is the fuel of capitalism. \u00a0I know greed is supposed to be controlled, though shalt not covet. \u00a0 However, capitalism seems to condone wanting more than you have and only real growth is going to come for trying to get more than you need. \u00a0 One of the reasons the founding fathers wanted a separation of church and state is to keep traditional \u00a0religious views of wealth, the accumulation of wealth and property ownership out of the government. \u00a0Adam Smith argues that Christianity was the really reason for the fall of Rome because Christianity taught that the accumulation of wealth was evil and that stopped the government from encouraging people to be greedy.<\/p>\n
I am sure I will have more to write about this later. \u00a0 . . . to be continued<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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