The Importance Of Cultural Consumptions And Values

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Cultural assumptions create values, in which the values guide the academic focuses in American University. Cultural assumptions are the beliefs of various cultures perspective of the world, and different cultures have different views of nature. Universities in the United States focus on helping students to perform better in their future career. The mission of Seattle University is that “Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world” (Mission, 2016). That is the school is teaching students essential information on the American values of how Americans view the world. According to Stewart and Bennett’s book American Cultural Patterns, Americans’ …show more content…

There are several courses in sequences, but some are not. One of the reasons for courses to be in sequences is to teach students from the general knowledge and then go more deeply into the particular professional field. The classes that are in orders include the major requirements courses, in which those are the subjects that graduates need to know the basic to understand more about the essential knowledge. The core curriculum requirements and electives courses are not in sequences. The courses of them are mostly not relevant to the profession study of the major. This kind of model is also a style of American thinking which is starting from the board information of all and then to specific profession …show more content…

The school’s expectation of graduating from Economics is that students should have a minimum average of 2.25 GPA. The school will prefer graduates with excellent performance in all courses which shows the students will behave well in the society and use their knowledge efficiently to help them solve their future problems in their career life. Furthermore, the degree certificate is a measurable achievement for graduates. In the American “The redundancy of motivational theories does not detract from their attractiveness to Americans, who flock by the thousands to ‘motivational seminars,’ assumedly to acquire motives that will cause them to act even more successfully” (Stewart & Milton J. Bennett, 1991). A measurable achievement is important in America that individuals will do better with a positive

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