Sentences with phrase «more general education courses»

A one - year certificate or diploma program can give you a basic overview of skills, while a two - year Associate's degree program may offer more general education courses and more in - depth medical assisting courses.

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There is also a fifth, more detached, philosophical way of looking at these issues without appealing to «direct historical influence» as if it were some sort of causal connection as Lowe claims it is.7 Of course the fourth line and fifth lines are outside ordinary present - day historiographical research, excepting undergraduates in general education courses (who seem inevitably to find, in spite of the odds in a fair - sized library, Russell's History of Western Philosophy first, and then cite it liberally).

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.

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said such courses will be «starved of funds» and warned that higher education was about to enter an era «in which many arts - based and teaching - focused institutions, which rely on public funding far more than the larger research - intensive universities, will face an uncertain future».

These best practices included making the transfer credit rules simpler and more transparent and standardizing the curriculum, both for general education courses and for a major's initial courses at different colleges.

The report criticizes as «weak» the college education of prospective teachers and calls for major revisions in teacher - training programs, including a more rigorous general education, fewer education courses, revised financing formulas for colleges of education, and the development of alternative - certification plans.

But first, most programs require that you take some general courses intended to provide you with a more rounded education, and to prepare you for the ancillary tasks you will need, such as record keeping, inventory, and communicating with clients.

Chicago - Kent College of Law, for example, has been experimenting with digital casebooks since the 1990s.160 Other professors argue that reading in digital format is inevitable.161 In general, those who call for more integration of technology into legal education suggest, besides digital textbooks, the use of online course management; use of listservs, blogs, and email to facilitate collaboration and communication outside of class; and the use of video - based instruction and electronic legal research aids.

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

Unlike more advanced degree programs, certificate programs contain little or no general education courses, since they work under the assumption that students have satisfied general education requirements with previous education.

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.

Associate degree programs go more in - depth and also provide general education courses which may be transferred to a four - year bachelor's degree in the future.

Bridging courses and making things more culturally safe for students is so obvious, yet so unknown in the education area in general, and too often high schools keep our kids from achieving, by dumbing them down, assuming because they are aboriginal they will never get into further study.