Why is it important to give students social, global, cultural, and environmental awareness?

- Building empathy.
- Open mindedness is the key to success for an individual in society. One becomes better able to take in and consider different ideas and either become more attuned to her/his own, or amalgamate that new idea with the previous one.
- Having such an awareness will benefit the student by way of appreciating the major issues, contentious situations, and the irony within each part. With such critical thinking, the student will be able to raise his/her consciousness and be able to take ownership of her/his place in society.

The courses that will best be able to address these awarenesses would -in my opinion- be Social Studies and Language Arts/English literature. Science and Mathematics will no doubt add to the students repertoire, but in terms of applying critical response, I believe the humanities cause the students to take a stand on issues faced in society.