Professionalizing graduate education
Subtitle: the master's degree in the marketplace
By: Judith Glazer-Raymo.
Series: ASHE higher education report -- v. 31, no. 4
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2005
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780787983611
Subjects: Master of arts degree -- Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-126) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Conceptualizing the master's degree; title: The evolution of the master's degree. A century of reform ; Federal aid and quality control ; Professionalizing graduate education ; The European model of professionalization ; The changing demographics of master's students; title: Curricular models of master's education. Degree diversity and disciplinary taxonomies ; Alternative delivery systems ; Reframing master's education; title: Major professional programs. Business ; Accounting ; Education; title: Professionalizing science and engineering. The biosciences ; Degree diversity : the professional science master's and the master of bioscience degrees ; The geosciences ; The chemical sciences ; Physics ; Engineering ; S&E degrees in context; title: Mixed trends in the humanities and social sciences. Humanistic studies ; Social sciences ; Interdisciplinary fields; title: Redesigning master's degrees for the marketplace. Globalization and the marketplace ; Convergence of academic and professional fields ; Accountability mandates and quality control ; Transformative technological advances.