Use these questions to practice your final reflection on belief, identity, and voice in English. The goal is to think critically, argue clearly, and express yourself with confidence.
Looking back at everything this course has covered — belief, science, religion, identity, division — what is the single most important thing you have learned or reconsidered? Has anything genuinely shifted for you?
Try to use: reconsider, shift, insight, takeaway, reflect
If you had to name three beliefs that are absolutely central to who you are — beliefs you would defend in any argument, in any language, with anyone — what would they be? How did you arrive at each one?
Try to use: core belief, defend, articulate, conviction, arrived at
Has this course — or the conversations in it — made you more confident in your beliefs, less confident, or simply more aware of their complexity? Is that kind of uncertainty a good thing or an uncomfortable one?
Try to use: confidence, uncertainty, nuance, comfortable, intellectual humility
You have now discussed these ideas in English — a language that is not your first. Has using English changed how you think about these topics at all? Are there things you can express more easily in English — or things you can only really say in your own language?
Try to use: language and thought, express, nuance, mother tongue, vocabulary gap
If you could have one conversation — honest, open, and without consequences — with someone who holds the belief you find most difficult to understand or accept, what would you ask them? What would you want them to understand about you?
Try to use: dialog, understand, empathy, challenge, bridge
The title of this course is "Strongly Held Beliefs." Do you think strongly held beliefs are a force for good in the world — giving people purpose, courage, and identity — or are they ultimately more dangerous than beliefs held lightly? Has your answer changed since Session 1?
Try to use: conviction, purpose, dangerous, evolve, final thought