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This program combines a recent history of the professions in the United States with intensive skills instruction and practice in the areas of professional writing, research, and quantitative reasoning. Through lectures, readings and film, we will explore the rise of the credentialed professions in the U.S. from their origin in the Industrial Revolution to their current status in U.S. society. We will focus primarily on the professions of law, social work and teaching. We will use these examples as case studies in the broader historical development of accredited professional education, the imperatives of licensing and continuing education, and the changing range of socioeconomic standing among the professions in the U.S. over time.

In this academic context, we will practice and improve college skills fundamental to all the professions, such as English composition and rhetoric, academic and policy research, and the basics of budgeting and financial planning for education and beyond. Students will have the opportunity to initiate new projects in research and writing, or to expand and undergraduate projects already under way. Other opportunities will include new research and classroom presentations about current credentialing education in chosen professions, as well as small group instruction and collaboration on the financial foundations of chosen professions past and present. This program will be research and writing intensive.

Quarters

Spring Open

Location and Schedule

Campus Location

Olympia

Time Offered

Day