Now what do we talk about that we need for an advanced civilization? What's first?
"Surplus of food" Surplus of food...what happens after the surplus of food?
I'm Justin summers. My graduation is May of
2014 and I am a double major in history political science and
secondary education,
with a focus on social studies.
History to me needs to be real. It can't just be lectures. It need to be discussed.
It needs to be... you need to understand it better
through questions, through discussion,
through readings,
not just reading out of a textbook.
I work at Howard County historical
Society and Museum
and... here in Downtown Kokomo
I spent most of my time working on putting together a new exhibit that we did last summer called Howard County: Then and Now.
Where we took old pictures from way way way back when, all... sometimes all the way back into the 1800s and then we sort
of showed what is that site like now?
A law degree and with my background from IUK, you know you can take those skills and
essentially do whatever you want. That's the great thing about the flexibility of the curriculum at IUK and the
flexibility of having a law degree. You can teach.
You can practice law.
You can be a judge.
Or judicial officer, and you can be a politician.
History is always taught in,
you know, elementary and high school, taught as "this is the facts, this is what happened..." Well in college level it's always, ok...
this is what this one person says about this
And this is what another person says about it. Figure out on your own what what you think... what you think
is true.
I think the first thing I would say is
that you are going to find instructors here who
will guide and support and inform and help you get where you want to go.
It's not as intimidating or scary as you think it is and once you find those instructors who know what they're doing
and they know how to help you,
you know you're halfway there. Just showing up is half the battle. And I think that having that grasp of history and how history shapes
the world gives us a better grasp about what's going on in the world right now, and what we can make in the future.
And I think that the small class size, the...
The sort of flexible scheduling the way that the teachers are very helpful and personable to you,
those are all things that have led [to] my success as a student. Some students go into law and public service, other students going to teaching, but
really, one of the keys is that a degree in history/political science gives you a background of skills for...
reading skills, writing skills, critical thinking skills, a general understanding of the society, politics, economics,
social movements that are desired by
people who are in, really a wide variety of jobs that people look for, as well as just the basic critical thinking skills to
take on just about any research type job.
