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Academic Majors
Academic majors are the course works individuals study during college which relate to their chosen career paths.
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The best course to study is the one that leads to your overall career goals and objectives. Thus, I would imagine you do not have anything specific at this time. So many individuals enroll in college programs without a specific goal in mind. As such, many become miserable in their work which is not good for them, or their employer. If you want to be successful in your work and personal life, carefully consider the following.
To be successful in your work, you must acquire a vision. A vision is a clearly articulated picture of the future you intend to create for yourself. In other words, it's a dream. However, if the dream does not have direction, it will always remain a dream and will never become a reality for you. That vision should create a passion within you, a love for what you do and the benefit it will bring to others as well as yourself. Make sure the vision is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and tangible. Let us look at this closer. When you believe you have chosen an appropriate career goal, look at it in SMART fashion as follows.
- Specific - Make sure your career goal is very specific. For example, "I would like to be a teacher," is not specific. "I would like to be a high school biology teacher in New Jersey (USA) in an urban school by 2012" is.
- Measurable - Make sure you can measure your progress. How will I know I am progressing in the right direction? This is where the development of short-term objectives comes in (discussed below). You will know you are on the right path as you accomplish each short -term objective.
- Achievable - Is the goal achievable considering my current life situation and circumstances?
- Realistic - Is what I want to do really realistic. For example, "I would like to be a middle weight boxing champion, and I am 63 years old." That is not realistic.
- Tangible - What will I - specifically - have at the end? What will I be (exactly)? It must be very specific.
Once you acquire that vision your path will become clear. Still, you will need a mentor, counselor, or coach who will be able to help you develop a road map embedded with short-term objectives leading to your overall career goals and objectives. The achievement of short-term objectives will indicate you are moving in the correct direction, and will also give you energy and excitement to carry on towards your overall career goal. It will take some research, but you most likely have some ideas already. Follow them through, look at the nature of the field, the everyday routine, the required education, the salary, the occupational demand and the related fields. When a career sparks an interest, try to shadow an individual who is actually doing what you think you might like to do. You can pick up valuable information this way. Thus, the following.
- Acquire the will to change circumstances.
- Acquire the vision (dream).
- Develop a road-map embedded with short-term objectives leading to your overall goal and objective.
- Just do it and do not let go until it becomes a reality.
What is the slope of a line segment with endpoints at (-1 1) and (1 5)?
Endpoints: (-1, 1) and (1, 5)
Slope: 2
What should my major in college be to become a vet tech?
The major in undergraduate is mostly irrelevant - the important goal is to make sure you have completed all the pre-requisite courses for applying to vet school. However, most vet school applicants major in biology, chemistry, animal science or a related field since these majors are pretty close to the list of pre-requisite classes for vet school.
What is percent error calculation used to determine?
It is used to determine how accurate an experimental value is.
Academically you would like to see your child work on?
Problem solving skills and critical thinking skills. They help children to grasp every other subject.
Discuss the contribution of Douglas Magregor to the development of management theory?
Douglas MacGregor developed the XY theory, based on human motivation. X pertains to authoritive personality, while Y addresses participative management.
What qualifications are needed to become a piolet?
A piolet is a type of ice-axe. To qualify as one really requires having all of the properties of such a tool.
Should a teacher's philosophy reflects national philosophy?
Nation is a unit and the teacher is a subject within that unit, hence what national philosophy is reflects in the teacher and vice versa.
What is the difference between a Bachelor of teaching and a bachelor of education?
There's not a big difference. At my university its the same thing. like my major is elementary education which is just teaching elementary school students. But some universities have it where teaching is a specific focus on teaching alone. While on the other hand, Education can be geared towards careers as principals, administrators, counselors, advisors, etc. But most likely, you will have to declare a concentration if you have an education major. Example, Major in Education with a concentration in Principalship.
What are the three functions of human language?
Type your answer here... Been able to communicate with other people.
Having the ability to respond to each individual. From infancy learning how to build with speach
A Sentence For Moral: She Went To Her Teacher For Moral Support
How far is it from Cherokee high to Pepplebrook high school?
Use Google Maps. Type in "Cherokee High School, [city], [state] to Pepplebrook High School, [city], [state]." Here's the link: http://maps.google.com/
Is guelph humber a good university?
There are definitely better universities in Canada to go to than Guelph-Humber. What program do you want to go into? Guelph-Humber only has Business, Early Childhood, Family and Community Social Services, Justice Studies, Kinesiology, Media Studies and Psychology programs. All of these you can take at better universities like Waterloo, York, Queens, U of T, McMaster, Western Ontario, Guelph(not humber). This of course doesn't mean it isn't a good university.
What are the stages of early childhood development?
According to Piaget's account there are 4 stages of development:
Sensorimotor Period (0-2 years)
In this stage, children start to exercise reflexes, and primary and secondary circular reactions start to appear. Also, between 12-18 months, the child's focus will be attracted towards the relationship between the child and other objects. By the end of this stage the child should be using symbols.
Preoperational Period (2-7 years)
Children in preschool and early elementary school are placed in this period. These children are characterized by egocentrism and centration, meaning that they focus on just one aspect of a problem.
Concrete Operational Period (7-11 years)
Children in this period are characterize by the appropriate use of logic.
Formal Operational Period (11+ years)
Both adolescence and adulthood belong to this stage. Here individuals can think abstractly and make conclusions base on the information available.
Only virginia tech and cal poly have undergraduate architecture programs out of those
What university majors have the least amount of essays to write?
No matter what you study in university, you have to write essays and reports, however, the university majors that have less writing usually fall under the mathematics and science spectrum:
Math
Economics
Engineering
How can you be a forensic police?
Contact your local police station. A forensic officer may be willing to discuss their work with you. Ask for the borough forensic manager. Alternatively look up the Forensic Science Service on the internet.
What possible careers are there for linguist majors?
The openings exceed the supply in both government and International business. It helps to have other skills at the same time, and technical terms in different fields demand hard training to master. A linguist is not someone who simply speaks a second language fluently or is simply bilingual. Subtle shifts in tone, volume and pitch in the the spoken word can often be misinterpreted. Syntax is essentential. Aussies insist that they speak English. so do Bostonians, Southerners and proper Englishmen. They do of course, but the differences are not subtle.
Can you earn a college degree to learn about bats?
I don't think there is a college degree that teaches just about bats. However if you study zoology, then if you go far enough you may be able to get an academic position where you can research into bats. You want to become a professional "chiropterologist".
