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To create a multidisciplinary program
of course work and experiential learning that reinforces the Center's
theme, "transportation and environmental education for the
21st Century." Education Program Outcome. At the end of its
fourth year the Center and Assumption College's Department of Education
will have developed an educational environment that provides a variety
of opportunities to explore the relationship between transportation
and the environment for students in undergraduate, graduate and
continuing education programs. The Department of Education will
emphasize the theme of the Center in its programs and initiatives
with the goal of educating children to make decisions that will
impact the life quality of future generations. The theme will be
increasingly featured in existing as well as newly designed education
courses for prospective and inservice teachers.
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Undergraduate Program ActivitiesIncrease the number of prospective teachers who major in the natural
sciences. In the Department of Natural Sciences, Assumption offers
majors in biology, chemistry and environmental science. Students
who concentrate in education can major in one of these disciplines.
Using both College and COWC curricula resources prepare guidelines
for a self designed major in environmental science and policy for
students in the undergraduate education program as a pilot program
for such a major at the College. Continued and expanded intra- and
interdisciplinary collaborations and initiatives such as those which
currently exist between the faculty of education and the natural
sciences. Offer the revised courses Chemistry and Modern Society
and Environmental History of New England that include the relationship
between transportation and the environment. Offer science majors
that include elective courses related to transportation and the
environment such as Science and Technology in American History,
Environmental Economics and Conservation of Natural Resources, Development
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Continuing and Professional Education ActivitiesCertificate programs, courses, workshops, and seminars on issues of transportation and the environment for personnel in local, state, and federal agencies, as well as those in private industry will be provided by the College's Center for Continuing and Professional Education. CCPE will also offer undergraduate degree programs (following the format of the Department of Education) to those seeking teacher certification with an emphasis in the areas of transportation, science, and the environment. Specific courses which incorporate a transportation-environmental component will be offered. The first of these, The History of Science and Technology in the United States, revised to address environmental aspects of historical developments in transportation, will be offered in the summer, 1999. A college/school community roundtable to discuss common research and practice curriculum interests in transportation, education and the environment. These will begin in the summer, 1999 with a lecture series on the history of transportation in Worcester and New England open to students, local teachers, and the general public. |
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Graduate School ActivitiesAs part of the Master of Arts in Education degree, courses will be offered in the areas of transportation, science, and the environment . The first of these courses-Science and Technology, a course designed for teachers of science and social studies for the master's degree program (or for state-mandated Professional Development Points) raising environmental issues related to transportation-will be offered in the summer, 1999. |
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Student of the YearCTEE-21 will select one outstanding student of the year from students enrolled in Center-related undergraduate, continuing education, or graduate programs. |
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August 20, 2003
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