First Core Essay

Central Piedmont Community College has identified Communication, Critical Thinking, Personal Growth & Cultural Literacy, and Information Technology & Quantitative Literacy as 21st century skills expected by both employers and four-year educational institutions. All graduates are required to complete course work that demonstrates acquisition of these critical core competencies, which are crucial to personal, academic, and professional success. These competencies are demonstrated throughout the content of the course, discipline or program of study, and complement basic program knowledge and application.
PHI 215 – Philosophical Issues is aligned with Personal Growth and Cultural Literacy (The ability to understand and manage self, to function effectively in social and professional environments, and to make reasoned judgments based on an understanding of the diversity of the world community), and will focus on providing students the opportunity to attain and document the following ability: student demonstrates ethical self-awareness.
The following rubric illustrates your expected path of growth in the competency:
COMPETENCY: PERSONAL GROWTH AND CULTURAL LITERACY
KEY INDICATOR 5: STUDENT IDENTIFIES AND ASSESSES ASSUMPTIONS.

Prompt: The Ethical Self-Awareness Evaluation focuses on the Existence of God. In this essay students will write a short essay minimally 500 words in multiple well-formed paragraphs that explains the author’s beliefs on the existence of a deity. Basically, this essay is a descriptive explanatory argument that contains an introduction (that states the issue question and the position being described), a body that includes the origin, evolution, and justification of the belief, and a conclusion. In the second essay, described in its own module, students will work with some course materials to develop an argument. For now, this essay is to provide a baseline and initiate reflection on the topic. The rubric provided above is more for the second essay. The essay students provide in this assignment will be utilized to assess your level of proficiency. Part One of the Ethical Awareness Assignment is worth 5 % of your final grade.

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