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b) The text is centered on the subject of higher education in the US. What is 
the generalist approach to education? Name its advantages and disadvantages. 
What is the specialist approach in higher education? What are the advantages 
and disadvantages?
c) How would you describe your own education: being more specialist or 
generalist?
d) Do you agree with the concept of a core curriculum in higher education. 
If so, what should be included in the core?
9. Group discussion. “Intelligent and highly educated person”
It may be organized as a panel discussion program on TV. Four 
members of the public are invited to give their opinion.
a)
The chairperson opens the discussion by introducing the mem-
bers of the panel, directs the panel and closes the discussion.
b)
In the course of the discussion you will have to touch upon such 
notions as “able”, “curious”, “intelligent “, “knowledgeable”, “learned”, 
“skilled”, “well read”, etc.; “erudite”, “generalist”, “intelligentsia”, 
“integrity”, “responsibility”, “specialist”.
c)
Write no less than five questions to highlight the subject of the 
discussion such as: Where and when does the education of a human 
being begin? How does liberal arts education teach a student to think 

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critically? What,
 
do you think, motivates a person to know more and 
more? What prompts a person to learn more foreign languages, for 
example?
10. Do Internet research and prepare a presentation on one of the given 
topics:
1. Russian and American systems of higher education. Specify the 
following: admission, requirements, students’ grants and financial aid, 
academic calendar, courses, political, sports and cultural activities.
2. One of the universities of the Ivy League.
3. Public and private institutions of higher education in the USA. 
Students’ societies

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