Academic affairs 60 concepts
- Academic affairsTaxonomy depicts different responsibilities relating to achieve the academic mission.
- academic departmentsAdministrative units responsible for teaching, research, and learning in a specified field of study
- coursesvariety and characteristics of courses which are taught
- course descriptionsummarized content of a course
- course enrollmentThe registration of a course, includes prerequisites aspects, student qualification
- course evaluationsmethods that are used to evaluate throughout the lecture
- course schedulesAn expected plan for carrying out a course
- electivesan optional courses of study
- extramural coursescourse that are not taught on-site or from distance
- seminarsa part of a course that are discussed by lecturer and group of students about a particular topic
- short coursesa 1 day or up to 3 days training for student
- workshopsa meeting at which a group of student engage in discussion and activity on a particular subject or project
- curriculara detailed program of a study
- enrollmentThe process of arranging to attend an institution and specific classes. Enrollment also describe the number of students that currently attend a school or a course.
- examinationsA lecturer's evaluation of a student's performance. It could be evaluated in letters (A, B, C, etc) or in numbers (10 scale, 4 scale, etc)
- gradesteacher's evaluation of a student's performance. They are often letters (e.g. A, B, C, D, F,) or numbers (e.g. 1-10.)
- graduate worksAn alumni/alumnae association or relating to graduate course/study
- learningA process that leads to change, which occurs as a result of experience and increases the potential for improved performance and future learning. The change in the learner may happen at the level of knowledge, attitude or behavior.
- researchthe systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions
- clinical researchIt involves human participants and helps translate basic research (done in labs) into new treatments and information to benefit patients.
- defense researchOutcome of this research is solving specific problems and needs of the military forces.
- experimentsA scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.
- human subjectsIt is systematic, scientific investigation that can be either interventional or observational and involves human beings as research subjects, commonly known as test subjects. Human subject research can be either medical research or non-medical research
- research methodologyThe specific procedures or techniques used to identify, select, process, and analyze information about a topic
- practicumsThe American term for a work placement and is an undergraduate or graduate-level course, often in a specialized field of study, that is designed to give students supervised practical application of a previously or concurrently studied field or theory
- clinical workAny work related to human trials to assess the dosing, safety and efficacy of a Product
- cooperative programsPrograms in which a university partners with employers who provide paid work to students. Students generally alternate a semester of work with a semester of career-related study
- internshipsA professional learning experience that offers meaningful, practical work related to a student's field of study or career interest. An internship gives a student the opportunity for career exploration and development, and to learn new skills.
- residenciesThe student physically resides full time, weekdays/nights and weekends, at a place of abode located within the limits of the school district.
- student teachingThe act of teaching in a school for a limited period under supervision as part of a course to qualify as a teacher.
- special programsA structured activity of a social welfare or educational nature intended for community, rather than exclusively pastoral charge use
- continuing educationA broad term which refers to students pursuing their post-secondary or university-level education after some gap
- cultural exchangesWhen people of two or more different backgrounds trade ideas, feelings, stories and customs. Cultural exchange can be used as a form of creating dialogue and understanding diversity in communities to help build community relations and cohesion
- experimental schoolsA school that attempts to accomplish positive aims while adopting experimentation as a guiding orientation
- extension educationNon-traditional instruction, extending beyond campus (e.g. evening classes, distance education, community education)
- honors programsA program that is designed for exceptionally motivated and high-achieving students who want a more in-depth and robust learning experience than those who would find in regular classes
- interdisciplinary programsIt is an undergraduate or graduate program that is made up of two or more areas of study
- joint academic programsA specified combination of degree programs or degree types, meaning students are enrolled in two graduate degree programs concurrently
- new student programsA program that is designed as a period before the start of an academic year at a university or tertiary institutions for freshmen
- remedial programsIt is designed to close the gap between what students know and what they're expected to know
- student exchangesA program in which students from a secondary school (high school) or higher education study abroad at one of their institution's partner institutions
- study abroadAn opportunity to pursue an educational program in a foreign country
- time-shortened degree programsA program which student has opportunities to reduce a number of time spent on the way to the bachelor degree
- training programsA planned sequence and combination of activities designed to equip post-student with knowledge and skills to become better professionals
- undergraduate educationEducation conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree
- wartime programsPrograms of any kind, administrative, instructive, training, put in place to support national defense or to cope with shortages during war time
- women's educationFor institutions that had exclusively male student bodies, aspects of incorporating women into the student body
- teachingThe concerted sharing of knowledge and experience, which is usually organized within a discipline and, more generally, the provision of stimulus to the psychological and intellectual growth of a person by another person or artifact.
- thesesA long essay or dissertation involving personal research, written by a candidate for a college degree.
- tutoringA non-specific activity of a teacher that implies one-on-one instruction in the 20th and 21st centuries