<p>Emory University welcomes first-year students with two distinct options to begin their liberal arts education: the research-infused Emory College or the smaller, experiential learning Oxford College. If you could create an academic course that is in the Emory University spirit of collaboration, creativity, entrepreneurship and inquiry, what would it be? What impact would the course have on you and your classmates’ educational experience?</p>
<p>I have a few ideas as to how to answer this question but I'm not sure if they fit with the prompt too well. </p>
<p>I was considering writing about a class that goes into detail about the collaboration between the business world and government. Although this seems pretty solid, I'm not really sure if this is the kind of answer the admissions department is looking for. </p>
<p>The second choice I'm considering is a class that teaches how to decipher people's body language, and how to analyze their speech patterns. </p>
<p>Anyone have any suggestions as to how I could improve any of these two ideas or tell me if they're even any good. </p>
<p>The first prompt could use some specific details (are you talking about government-business communications, business-related policy, or something else?), though it could make a good essay if you were to really flesh it out and show how the course would be a valuable learning experience for those who take it.</p>
<p>The second prompt is a bit problematic because the course you describe is too focused on practical skills and tricks rather than on teaching students a new way of thinking. You could work the themes of body language and speech pattern analysis into the topic of a broader course, or simply use those two topics and make your description of them sound a bit more theoretical.</p>
<p>In any case, the most important thing you need to focus on is detailing the qualities of your hypothetical course to show how it would be a valuable contribution to Emory’s educational environment.</p>
<p>I’m not sure which you decided to write on, but I’m struggling with the wording of the prompt itself. in the prompt it specifically mentions the values of collaboration, creativity, entrepreneurship, and inquiry. Do you think that they want us to relate our course to each of these, or do they just want our sour to exemplify some interpretation of these?</p>