You will be asked to answer the final essay question:
If you had to lose a sense, which sense would you choose to lose first, and which sense would you choose to lose last?
- Make sure your response includes:
- Whether your choices have changed since the beginning of this course and an explanation of why they have or have not.
- Relevant information, course content, and/or research that you have learned that has influenced your choices.
- 1 short essay question
- 25 minutes, worth 10 points
- The essay question is:
If you had to lose a sense, which sense would you choose to lose first, and which sense would you choose to lose last?
- Make sure your response includes:
- Whether your choices have changed since the beginning of this course and an explanation of why they have or have not.
- Relevant information, course content, and/or research that you have learned that has influenced your choices.
To receive full credit, you must:
- Answer the question thoroughly. Students typically write two paragraphs (15-20 sentences).
- Include whether your opinion/choices have changed since Discussion #1. If you do not remember what you chose originally, you need to go back and review your first discussion.
- Include relevant information, course content, and/or research that you have learned that has influenced your choices. You cannot base your response on personal preferences alone.
- For example, in Discussion #1, many of you based your choices on your personal preferences. You love listening to music so you would choose to lose your hearing last. Or, you can’t imagine not feeling the touch of your loved one, so you would choose to lose your sense of touch last. But now that you know more about your senses and how losing one may affect your ability to perceive the world around you and navigate through your environment, this needs to be weighed against your personal preferences.
- If, in the end, you still weigh your personal preferences more strongly than the research and what you have learned, that is completely fine, BUT, you have to explain that! You need to clearly demonstrate what you have learned about the senses even if your personal preferences are still more important to you than the research/science. It is not enough to say: “I am an artist and so, cannot imagine losing my sense of vision.” But you can say:
“Even though I know losing my sense of touch before my sense of vision, would be extremely debilitating, because…[all the things you’ve learned here]. I still would choose to lose vision last. I am an artist and I would rather be able to continue to pursue my passion, even if it means that I may have to re-learn how to paint completely!”
- The above is just an example. How you choose to incorporate what you’ve learned is completely up to you, as long as you do it.
Thi is what I wrote down on my first assigment about loss of sense: “If I had to lose a sense I would lose my sense of smell. I suffer from sinusitis and it keeps my nose sore, irritated and stuffy all the time. So, to me the sense of smell would be irrelevant since I have a hard time smelling since I was a little kid. I would never want to lose my sense of sight. I wear glasses on my daily basis 24/7 and whenever I do not have my glasses on I feel dazed, I do not focus and my brain does not work like it should.”
It is up to you.