Student complete individualized and often self-paced plans of study. The instructor and student negotiate the details of the plan of study. Courses are usually small (5 or fewer students) and generally have no defined meeting days and times.
An internship is a form of experiential learning that integrates knowledge and learned in the classroom with practical application and skills development in a professional or community setting. Internships provide resources, equipment, and facilities that enable students to gain experience in a professional work environment and provide students with skills or knowledge that are transferable to other settings. Internships with defined learning objectives, professional supervision, and opportunities for reflection offer valuable enriched learning experiences.
Students participate in credit bearing off-campus activity under faculty supervision and instruction.
A regularly scheduled course, or section of a larger course, designed solely for group discussion. Discussions are non-credit bearing, linked to a credit bearing course, and not stand-alone courses. As such discussion sections generally contain fewer student than the course to which they are linked.
Standard non-variable/fixed credit course where instruction occurs in a traditional classroom setting. Lectures almost always have larger class sizes than seminar. Lecture courses may certainly include a variety of pedagogies (discussion, class presentation) but are predominantly lecture oriented.
An instructional setting in which the instructor gives short presentations and supervises student application of content. Instructional methods are integrated; lecture and lab are dependent upon each other for the student's educational success.
Part of a course set aside for experimental hands-on observation of practice in a field of study linked to a lecture.
Instructional activities in settings providing specialized facilities or equipment for students to master the subject matter either by performing experiments or practicing the skills being learned. The instructor generally supervises, assists, answers questions, etc., rather than making presentations.
A learning activity or assessment that asks students to perform to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and proficiency learned from a unit or units of study.
A course of study that involves working in the area of study and using the knowledge and skills that have been learned at a university.
A lecture or research at a foreign university or through their home university's study-abroad program.
A more interactive and typically smaller course forum than a lecture. Content may include student presentations and discussions based on literature, theory, problems, or research. Enrollment is limited to allow for greater focus on students’ critical reflection and exchange of ideas.
Masters theses should reveal a capacity to carry on independent study or research and should demonstrate the student's ability to use the techniques employed in their field of investigation. Doctoral dissertations should demonstrate technical mastery of the student's field and advance or modify current knowledge. Dissertations should treat new material, find new results, or draw new conclusions; or it should interpret old material in a new light. It is expected that the research contained in the thesis/dissertation will be worthy of publication in appropriate peer-reviewed journals.
A regularly scheduled course devoted to participation in or performance of some form of physical activity. Knowledge associated with the proper performance of the activity presented.
