Unit 1
Challenges in Higher Education1
Text A: Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's 2
Text B: A Plea for "Close Learning"9
Writing Focus: Planning an Argumentation 16
Unit 2
Humanities—To Be or Not to Be, That Is the Question21
Text A: Humanities-To Be or Not to Be, That ls the Question 22
Text B: Why a Humanities Degree lsn't Career Suicide29
Writing Focus: Writing a Strong Thesis Statement35
Unit 3
Psychology39
Text A: What Children Lose When Their Brains Develop Too Fast 40
Text B: Content Moderators Pay a Psychological Toll to Keep Social
Media Clean48
Writing Focus: Grounds 56
Unit 4
Post-Truth, Post-Fact Society? 59
Text A:Why Aren't People Listening to Scientists? 60
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