For my first six weeks of New Century Colleges I was in NCLC 110: Community Learners. The name explains a lot of what it was. Each classroom was a community and the focus was to learn about yourself in and using the setting of the community.  Here the community is the aid to learning about oneself. The competencies of this section were communication, information technology, critical thinking, and group interaction. The sense of community was vital in achieving the competencies of communication and group interaction.  Also communication is a large component of group interaction so the two coincide just as the students do in order to fulfill the competency of group interaction. Moreover through the communication and group interaction of NCLC 110 we as students were supposed to find, understand, and identify ourselves in the context of others. The goal of NCLC 110 was to establish and know yourself in order to recognize what works for you, especially in terms of shifting to the new college lifestyle.

On the other hand NCLC 130’s focus was establishing a more worldly view that did not revolve around you, as the student. However personal interpretation of the readings, videos, and discussions was necessary in order to construct a worldly view the class’s main point was not the individual. The competencies at play in NCLC 130 were global perspective, critical thinking, valuing, group interaction, aesthetic response, communication, effective citizenship, and information technology. Global perspective I thought was the biggest part of NCLC 130. But, to gain this global perspective other mechanisms had to come into play such as valuing and aesthetic response. You had to first be able to identify differences and accept them as they are. Next you had to be able to construe a response using critical thinking, and communicate it adequately to others. Doing all of this made me an effective citizen in the classroom and hopefully eventually of the world also. In 130 I had to take my individuality I established in 110 and find where I fit in to the rest of the world.