To explore and become familiar with your discipline; to prepare you for your major researched essay.

You might begin by considering the following questions:

• What are the discipline's fundamental assumptions or driving questions?

• Are they stable or in a state of change?

• What would you say constitutes a "fact" in this discipline?

• What do you consider objective and subjective data?

• Does the discipline use experience and/or observation as evidence? If so, how?

• What are the discipline's fundamental methods of inquiry?

• What kinds of careers are typically open to students with this major?

• What kinds of writing and research might they do in those careers?