A liberal arts education is suited to culture a robust and dynamic foundation of knowledge from many fields, supporting students in thinking critically and seeing the world through many lenses. It is this approach to education that constructs a framework for great thinkers to invent new machinery, branch theories out of the thinkings of others, and augment new knowledge to our world. This is what Pomona can foster their students with through its liberal arts education— the groundwork knowledge for them to utilize and build their own ideas upon. I particularly value this liberal arts approach that Pomona’s academics will offer me because it will give me the opportunity to critically think through my thoughts and be able to articulate them well …show more content…
Lewis, whose work is well established in the neuroscience field. In fact, Professor Lewis’ expertise in head injury and the relationship between stress and health, specifically within children and adolescents, are closely related to the type of work I wish to study and plan to utilize in my work with trauma in children from war zones in the future. Specifically, I am interested in Professor Lewis’s research on an education that is neuropsychologically fit for a child with a head injury and on how human behavior is impacted by one’s neural mechanism that are associated with social and cultural processes. Also, I look forward to being a disciple of Professor Sharon G. Goto, whose research revolves around studying how culture impacts the human mind and brain. Her particular class “Cultural Psychology and the Brain” would be crucial in my understanding of how the culture people are raised in impacts their neurological and psychological process, and then applying that knowledge to develop a well-suited treatment plan for