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Direct linkIsabel Miller; Grisel Lopez-Alvarez; M. Teresa Cardador; Karin J. Jensen – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2024
Biomedical engineering is a broad and interdisciplinary field that prepares graduates for a variety of careers across multiple career sectors. Given this breadth, undergraduate degree programs often have formal or informal opportunities for students to further specialize within the biomedical engineering major to develop skills in subdisciplines…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Biomedicine, Engineering Education
Odom, Summer F.; Dunn, Allison L. – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2023
This article highlights specific approaches to developing leadership identity in college students within an academic curricular context. The authors examine curricular contexts such as majors, minors, and certificates with an emphasis on leader and leadership development, as well as specific course activities used to engage students in developing…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Leadership, Leadership Training, Majors (Students)
Joshua Plencner; Allison Rank – Journal of Political Science Education, 2025
Structural questions about the undergraduate political science major have spurred debates in the field for more than thirty years. Today, resurgent growth of unusually sharp threats to American democracy fuel familiar curricular questions with new urgency. However, the combined effects of inertia, bureaucratic hurdles, and resource constraints…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Political Science, Undergraduate Study, Majors (Students)
Al R. Sicat; Airalie Faith T. Manese; Andrei Francis T. Mendoza; Joan M. Sales; Jonathan N. San Juan; Karen S. Sarmiento; Josephine Luz D. Pineda; Dynah D. Soriano – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2025
Rapid changes and greater complexities bring new difficulties and place new expectations on our educational system. Teacher education programs must adapt to these changes and train pre-service teachers in various learning modalities. This study determined the readiness of pre-service teachers to teach online based on their technological…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Readiness
Vargas, Carlos Manuel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As psychology grows in popularity, most students select professions related to therapy, which constantly deem statistics courses as irrelevant and accentuate negative attitudes. This study explores perspectives of knowledge, also known as epistemological frames, that students enrolled in a psychology-based course in statistics generate and the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Statistics Education, Psychology, Majors (Students)
Nesrine Mansouri; Mourad Abed; Makram Soui – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Selecting undergraduate majors or specializations is a crucial decision for students since it considerably impacts their educational and career paths. Moreover, their decisions should match their academic background, interests, and goals to pursue their passions and discover various career paths with motivation. However, such a decision remains…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Decision Making, Majors (Students), Specialization
Olivia Jones Choplin; Emily Ford – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2024
It is widely recognized that learning interventions that help student sojourners prepare for and process their study abroad experiences can increase those students' learning gains. What if, however, students express skepticism or resistance to those learning interventions? This article offers a case study of a student-faculty partnership in…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Program Design, Study Abroad
Download full textDaw, Tony de Souza; Falah, Ahmed; Fahd, Kiran; Parvin, Sazia; Di Serio, Antony – Online Submission, 2022
Structuring a degree is a common activity for course developers. Analyzing appropriate subjects and year levels, establishing pre- and co-requisite, and benchmarking against similar degrees are common academic activities. However, the degree structure itself has not had significant changes until now. A degree often lacks flexibility and cohesion…
Descriptors: Specialization, Academic Degrees, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
J. Patrice McSherry – International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2023
As Latin American countries moved from military dictatorship to civilian government in the 1980s, a burning issue was how to deal with the massive repression and grave human rights violations of the recent past. Should there be an effort to hold perpetrators accountable, or simply "turn the page?" This article documents and analyzes the…
Descriptors: Nongovernmental Organizations, Latin Americans, Civil Rights, Agency Cooperation
Atkin, JoAnn L.; Bowie, Anthony Alland; Cowley, Scott; Eckert, James A.; Ferrin, Bruce G.; Harrison, Robert L.; Lancendorfer, Karen M.; Luqmani, Mushtaq; Luqmani, Zahida; Leingpibul, Thaweephan; Mumuni, Alhassan G.; O'Reilly, Kelley; Quraeshi, Zahir A.; Samples, Robert G.; Veeck, Ann; Xie, Hu; Zondag, Marcellis M. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2022
Many business colleges offer specialized marketing majors in addition to the general marketing major. Given the extra resources needed to maintain multiple majors, in a time when higher education budgets are being strained, a need exists to understand how students make choices among these majors and what students perceive to be the advantages of…
Descriptors: Marketing, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Stabile, Bonnie; Grant, Aubrey; Salih, Shene – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2019
This study investigates the question of whether there are gender differences in the choice of specializations/concentrations by students enrolled in Master's Programs in Public Administration (MPA), and considers potential implications for MPA students and the broader field of public administration. We analyzed data provided by NASPAA-accredited…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Specialization, Majors (Students), Masters Programs
Wolthuis, Stuart L.; Campbell, Patricia H. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2021
This research shares insights into the results of a three-year process of re-engineering general education at Brigham Young University--Hawaii (BYU--Hawaii), a private university, and the impact this change has conveyed to our students, curriculum, and faculty. The authors first describe the background of traditional general education, then…
Descriptors: General Education, Educational Change, Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education
Karen J. Lunsford; Amanda Stansell – Composition Forum, 2023
In this program profile, we describe the development of a new track in Science Communication (SciComm) for an existing Professional Writing minor offered by an independent Writing Program. We identify the international and local exigencies for improving SciComm; the resources needed for this new track--both those already in place and those…
Descriptors: Universities, Sciences, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Al-Disi, Nisreen M.; Rawadieh, Saleh Moh'd – International Education Studies, 2019
This study aimed at identifying moral judgment for education profession ethics among pre-service teachers programs of the School of Educational Sciences at the University of Jordan. Accordingly, the researchers developed a Moral Judgment Scale based on Kohlberg (1984), and on the Adult Moral Judgment Scale localized by Abdul-Fattah (2001). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Preservice Teachers, Value Judgment
Leupold, Christopher R. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2019
This article describes an innovative upper-level leadership studies minor course that was created to provide a transdisciplinary-type of experience for students. Seminar and student-led in format, the general framework of the course, Leadership in 'Major' Contexts, involved students identifying topics from their own major disciplines and…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Leadership Training, Specialization, Majors (Students)
