The degree offers adult students the intellectual stimulation of graduate course work at a time in their lives when great ideas and enduring questions can be measured against their own life experience. Its evening courses are offered at a lower tuition rate, and the scheduling, admissions, and registration procedures acknowledge the special circumstances of the part-time adult student. The degree offers a highly individualized and flexible study plan combining study courses in the traditional engineering disciplines with professional business development. Courses in the Owen Graduate School of Management are also available. Program provides a unique opportunity for K-12 educators to participate in University research, teacher education, and program development.
Membership is open to anyone in the community without regard to previous level of formal education.
The program has enrolled more than 200 individuals in classes such as health-care ethics, T.S. Eliot's poetry, financial and estate planning, and traditional China. 343-0553 Elderhostel at Vanderbilt is part of a national organization dedicated to the belief that learning and discovery are lifelong activities. Some 2,000 nonprofit institutions in this country and abroad participate, offering one-week, residential programs with courses in everything from art history to zoology.