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Virginia Tech business college alumn...

Gordon, Susan Marie.

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Virginia Tech business college alumni reflect on literature in their lives.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Virginia Tech business college alumni reflect on literature in their lives./
作者:	Gordon, Susan Marie.
面頁冊數:	107 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0079.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-01A.
標題:	Education, Business. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3207017
ISBN:	9780542537578

Virginia Tech business college alumni reflect on literature in their lives.
Gordon, Susan Marie.

Virginia Tech business college alumni reflect on literature in their lives. - 107 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0079.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2006.

Some colleges and universities require their business majors to take literature classes; others do not. Some businesspeople, as well as many educators such as Donna M. Kish-Goodling (1999), William McCarron (1980), and Philip Vassallo (1991), support the need for business students to study literature in order to improve their communication skills and degree of human understanding. Over the past fifty years, however, Virginia Tech's literature requirements for business majors have gradually diminished to none.

ISBN: 9780542537578Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017515
Education, Business.

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520 $a The twelve participants who were interviewed in this qualitative study were all business majors who graduated from Virginia Tech before 1990, when the business school, and the university at large, still required students to take one or more literature courses. The vast majority of participants agreed that they had benefited from studying literature as part of their undergraduate business degree. Participants most often credited the classes with broadening their world view, developing their analytical skills, making them more well-rounded, improving their communication skills, and helping them better express themselves. Participants agreed with Vassallo's suggestion that reading literature helped students to put their own lives into perspective (1991) and with poet Billy Collins' argument that exposure to literature was the key to learning how to write well (Lenham 2001). Even in today's highly technological society, the skills and insights obtained through the humanities, especially those involving writing, are still considered quite relevant by the participants.
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