| Skills and Competencies
The Guilford Five:
Writing
-Completed at least one paper for every course taken (either scientific or analytic in
nature)
-Pursuing an English major with a Communications Concentration
-Writing Intensive courses: "Generation X," "Applied Ethics," "Classic American Cinema," "Chaucer and his Age," "Tribes,
States, and Global Society," "British and American Romanticism"
Research
-Planned and conducted numerous Scientific Research projects during such courses as
"Chemical Principles," "Cell Biology," "Terrestrial Ecology,"
and Physics I"
-Have researched and written proposals and papers
-Plans for Honors thesis in Biology Research of Sustainable Development
Quantitative Skills
-Tested out of quantitative requirement
-Have used quantitative reasoning to model biological and societal systems in such
courses as "Images of the Earth: Geographic Information Systems" and
"Terrestrial Ecology"
-Will be taking "Elementary Statistics" and an Independent study in
"Biostatistics and Modeling Biological Systems"
Oral Skills
-Have given oral presentations both on research I have
conducted and Literary analysis I have done
-Participated in an internship as the Guilfordian
Editor-in-Chief
-Enrolled in "Leadership, Theory, and Practice"
Information Technology
-Proficient in PowerPoint, Front Page, Excel, Stella, Adobe Photoshop and Pagemaker,
and Graphical Analysis as a result of my work at Guilford
-Independent Study: Electronic Portfolio
-Internet Navigation
strengthened from research in all classes
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