(Solved): (back to Table of Canterits) Problems marked with we will be furmed in via Gradescope. See the syll ...

(back to Table of Canterits) Problems marked with we will be furmed in via Gradescope. See the syllabus for instractions. Problems markind whith k.k witt be diveussed in class and /or mentor sesvions as time allowe. 1.1.1 Consulting the list of "transferrable" skills on p.2 of the Syllabus, write a list of: - Your Top 3 stmongest skills so far (c.g "imagining altematives") - Your Top 3 skills that you want to work on this semester - the Top 3 skills that have been emphasized in previous economics courses - the Top 3 skills that you think will be emphasized in a Seminar in cconomics (the "capstone" of the major that students take in their 4 th year usually) *** \( 1.1 .2 \) Concider this statement and then answer the questions below: "The 'Future of Jobs Report 2020' describes data collected from many different cmployers, asking them what the most important skills were for the jobs. If you surveyed a bunch of liberal artgoollege faculty, they would say that their courses offer students the opportunity to an?euire and refine many of those skills. However, many students leave college believing or fecling that the academic crvironment did not prepare them for the work force. As a result, the transition to their first job is often very difficult." - If the statement were made in nosponse to a question, can you imagine what the question would have becn? - Bricfly paraphrase the statement in your own words. - Based on your own experience, do you agnee oe disagnce with the angument made in the statement? - What assumption(s) does the statement make? What is important about these acsumptions? - What would it take for you to be convinced by the staternent? In other words. what evidence would you need to sce? Lete 1.1.3 What kinds of challenges, barriers, or obstacles do you think a person encounters when trying to develop the skill you lasted in 1.1.1 above? Do you have ideas on how you younelf onuld address these barricrs? How could your profossors addrese the barriers? Zefe 1.1.4 Rifer to the fint two pages of the syllabus that describe the elements of a "mondel" in econorniox. How might "critical thinking" show up inside a model in coonomics?