Sentences with phrase «general education courses like»

Associate's degree programs are much more in - depth and include general education courses like English, psychology, sociology, and mathematics, as well as medical assisting courses.

Community colleges usually provide a combination of career - focused training and general education courses like English.

Not exact matches

College majors like Exercise Science and General Education have long been assailed by critics as crip - course degrees, but shadow boosters see them as a vital way to perpetuate the cycle.

You'll learn from your peers in the more than 100 education sessions offered during the course of the conference, and hear from inspirational figures like Olympic athletes Jackie Joyner - Kersee and Shannon Miller during general sessions.

The Report's central conclusion is that, although traditional legal pedagogy is very effective in certain aspects, it overemphasizes legal theory and underemphasizes practical skills and professional development.5 By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.10

The course combines general education classes, like computer basics and math, with core medical assisting courses.