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Stephen J. Friedman, Outcomes, Learning, and Assessment in General Education 33Draft due:Final version due:Length:TBATBA3–5 pages, double-spaced, 12-point font,Times New RomanScene 2: WOIIn this capstone course a prompt is provided that asks students to doan evaluation that duplicates the one asked of the first-year students. Here,though, the students are required to cite specific texts, compare several figures,and to write a substantially longer paper. This course, under the generaltheme of “The Human Condition” focuses on the subject of citizens and theirrelationship to the State. A wide array of readings are examined, both Westernand non-Western, from a range of disciplines—history, literature, philosophy,religion, and so on. Historical dynamics between citizens and the State wherecitizens confront moral dilemmas that complicate their relationship with stateauthority and imperatives are discussed. For these comparative reasons, thefirst-year students are directed to select public figures and to explain theirpublic values—why they are model citizens—otherwise many will chooseto write about their mother or father or friend. The prompt distributed tostudents about two weeks before the end of the term is as follows:This course has been examining the relationship of an individual with theState. We have discussed the responsibilities that a citizen owes to the Stateand what the State “owes” citizens. We also have discussed factors that cancomplicate the citizen’s relationship with the State—and the moral impera-