Sentences with phrase «new course of study»

Or perhaps it's a hold - over from the excitement we felt as we embarked on a new school year or a new course of study — or watch our offspring... Read More»
It is ideal for use with groups at the beginning of an academic year or starting a new course of study.

Not exact matches

And let's face it — it can be tough to embark on a brand - new and intensive course of study while you're already trying to put out fires!
In stressing the need to study and consider new approaches to fiscal and monetary policy, I am not advocating an abrupt reversal of course; after all, you don't change horses in the middle of a stream.
«Not many people,» Elliott notes, «feel a moral duty to take part in these studies»» though, of course, we are more than happy to reap the benefits brought by new drugs.
After much discussion, study, and prayer over the course of a year, the statement «The Gift of Salvation» was agreed to at a meeting in New York City in October 1997, and published in the January 1998 issue of this journal.
«Quiet times, times of prayer and Bible study are course wonderful things, but all the research shows the new generation isn't really doing it.
Merrimon Cuninggim in The College Seeks Religion (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1947), pp. 298 - 300, reports on a careful study of seventy state - supported institutions and finds that 80 per cent have departments of religion or courses in religion offered in other departments of the curriculum.
In other words, theological education still has not found a new paradigm for the nature of theology, reasons for the way it organizes its course of study, and a coherent version of the routes students take through their studies.
Perspectival changes should be reflected in our methodology It is not enough to add a new course or branch of study to the existing curricula.
While advancing to STL - level courses brought new opportunities, like studying Church Fathers and Scholastic theologians in their original languages, it also brought a new sense of isolation.
As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.
Of course, as I learn new things, whether through my own reading and study, or through the interactive comments, I can always edit and / or add to my original posts to reflect this new information.
They do not constitute, of course, a systematic study of New Testament Christology; but among them they do touch on the major themes in such a study.
I believe this to be an important new field of study which, of course, would imply a thorough interaction with cultural sciences.20 The recognition of difference often claimed by Boff.
Under the umbrella of this organization, Christian professors are beginning to develop new courses, new syllabi and new collections of case studies for discussions of ethics.
Of course I have been talking, in the first story, about the beleaguered but unbowed Mark Regnerus, the sociologist whose New Family Structures Study was published in Social Science Research in 2012.
The subject matter of the article and lectures was the basis of a three - weeks» course of study at the Eastern Pastors» School of the (now) United Church of Christ, at Deering, New Hampshire, in the summer of 1961.
To help further overcome fragmentation of the course of study, he proposes that some new way of measuring movement through the course of study be adopted to replace the «semester hour» or «term hour,» which tends to atomize the curriculum.
Johann Lang, in a letter to Spalatin in March 1516 (shortly before he was appointed to Erfurt) referring to the large numbers of students who were dropping out of the courses on scholastic philosophy and theology, and explaining the rebirth of biblical studies (he used the Renaissance type word reviviscere) and the new Strong interest in antiquae scriptores, identified the phenomenon by pointing to the international influence of Reuchlin and Erasmus, «men of great erudition and integrity».
These clubs are not new, of course, but they have grown in popularity over the last few years, and for some post-baby boomers, they might be acting as substitutes for the Bible studies and Sunday Schools they grew up with.
Other symptoms of this new spirit are to be found in the increased interest in the common worship of the academic community, though this is by no means universally evident; in the widespread and intensive discussions of faculties about the purpose and organization of the course of study; in the experiments that are being carried on to relate the work of the seminary more intimately to the work of other church agencies, particularly to the local churches.
Hence also this responsibility is not met merely by the addition to theological studies of courses in the old or the new humanities — the study of literature, history and philosophy on the one hand, of culture, psychology and sociology on the other.
Of course I knew about all these things before this class (AHEM high school science...) but studying it now is making me look at everything in a new light.
While she is a huge supporter of Sonoma State's program, she's more cautious about wine education generally, pointing out that many courses of study are relatively new and unproven.
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The Rudd study, when paired with similar findings from a previous Harvard School of Public Health study, make a very strong case that we must stay the course on the new healthier school meal standards.
At New Legacy, language arts and social studies are combined into integrated theme - based humanities courses; math is taught in a blended environment that enables teachers to effectively support and challenge a diverse group of learners; and science is taught in six - week modules that focus on scientific inquiry and the scientific process.
«Of course it's disappointing that there wasn't a dramatic difference,» Lawrence, who wasn't involved in the new study, told Reuters Health.
NEW LENOX — Park District commissioners have agreed to a study of the merits of adding a section of the Sanctuary Golf Course site to the National Historic Register.
The study also found that the introduction of AP courses in inner - city schools in Jacksonville, New York, Detroit and Philadelphia has not had the desired effect.
Cuomo stuffed a $ 1.5 million line item into his election - year budget to create a new «School of Urban and Labor Studies» at the CUNY that will offer more courses to union workers and other students wanting to learn about labor issues.
Q - Step is funding fifteen universities across the UK to establish Q - Step Centres that will support the development and delivery of specialist undergraduate programmes, including new courses, work placements and pathways to postgraduate study.
Gov. Cuomo stuffed a $ 1.5 million line item into his election - year budget to create a new «School of Urban and Labor Studies» at the City University of New York that will offer more courses to union workers and other students wanting to learn about labor issunew «School of Urban and Labor Studies» at the City University of New York that will offer more courses to union workers and other students wanting to learn about labor issuNew York that will offer more courses to union workers and other students wanting to learn about labor issues.
The independent commission studying Rikers Island officially released its recommendations for closing the troubled jail complex on Sunday, more than a year after the panel was convened and two days after Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York reversed course to back the plan.
«For the first time, we have direct images of what the Milky Way looked like in the past,» said study co-leader Pieter G. van Dokkum of Yale University in New Haven, Conn. «Of course, we can't see the Milky Way itself in the pasof what the Milky Way looked like in the past,» said study co-leader Pieter G. van Dokkum of Yale University in New Haven, Conn. «Of course, we can't see the Milky Way itself in the pasof Yale University in New Haven, Conn. «Of course, we can't see the Milky Way itself in the pasOf course, we can't see the Milky Way itself in the past.
In a positive sign for efforts to boost U.S. competitiveness in science and technology, a new study finds that courses that engage college students in conducting scientific research early on can dramatically increase students» odds of completing a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) degree.
But gravelly rivers coming from the mountains have the ability to resist large, fast floods without permanently changing their banks and altering their courses, according to a new study of more than 186 rivers.
A new study unequivocally points to humans as the cause of the mass extinction of large animals all over the world during the course of the last 100,000 years.
The new study by Stefanie Lutz, postdoc at the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ and at the University of Leeds, shows a 13 per cent reduction of the albedo over the course of one melting season caused by red - pigmented snow algal blooms.
charting a new course, greene sought the help of Jonathan Cohen, a Princeton neuroscientist studying how the brain coordinates attention, thought, and action in pursuit of a goal.
At the September workshop, the teachers became the students as they read a research article under the guidance of Sally Hoskins, a professor at City College of New York who studies such educational methods and teaches biology courses that use primary literature in lieu of traditional textbooks.
Three new studies suggest that the neurological changes in a brain of a suicide victim differ markedly from those in other brains and that these changes develop over the course of a lifetime.
«There is hope that one of the newer ongoing studies may result in an effective treatment for slowing the course of Alzheimer's disease.»
For these parents, «there is a real need for additional research on the severity, the course and the persistence of mental health problems over time,» said Sarah Woolf - King, Ph.D., M.P.H., senior study author and assistant professor in the psychology department at Syracuse University in New York.
«Over the course of a person's life, with repeated exposure to bacteria and viruses, these T cells mature and eventually lose a protein called CD28,» said Gladstone Senior Investigator Melanie Ott, senior author of the new study.
Over the course of this new study, the abundance of commercially important juvenile scallops was consistently higher within the reserve than outside.
In a new study, a hospital surveillance program focusing on reducing the risks of sepsis, known as the two - stage Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system, was found to reduce the risk of adverse outcomes, such as death and hospice discharge for sepsis patients, by 30 % over the course of one year.
A team of paleontologists of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the State University of New York at Oswego and Brown University shows in a new study of fossil amphibians that the extraordinary regenerative capacities of modern salamanders are likely an ancient feature of four - legged vertebrates that was subsequently lost in the course of evolutiNew York at Oswego and Brown University shows in a new study of fossil amphibians that the extraordinary regenerative capacities of modern salamanders are likely an ancient feature of four - legged vertebrates that was subsequently lost in the course of evolutinew study of fossil amphibians that the extraordinary regenerative capacities of modern salamanders are likely an ancient feature of four - legged vertebrates that was subsequently lost in the course of evolution.
At the end of my high school education, I looked for a university course that combined all of my interests, and so I ended up studying chemistry or, to be more precise, pharmacology, an area that develops new medicines.
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