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A Statistical Portrait of the Non‐Liberal Arts Curriculum
Author(s) -
Palmer James
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.10803
Subject(s) - curriculum , liberal arts education , the arts , subject (documents) , community college , portrait , sociology , arts in education , pedagogy , mathematics education , higher education , political science , psychology , medical education , visual arts , art , library science , law , computer science , medicine
Community colleges vary considerably in terms of the proportion of the curriculum devoted to courses outside the arts and sciences, the relative weight within the non‐liberal arts curriculum that is given to subject areas, and the extent to which credits earned in this part of the curriculum transfer to baccalaureate‐granting institutions.