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Graduate Education Degree Concentrations
As educational careers and instructional certifications become more specialized, education graduate programs are reflecting this by encouraging students to declare a concentration within their education degree program. A concentration makes educators more attractive, often broadening their career prospects and better preparing them to meet the challenges of being an education professional.
While it’s typical for a student to declare a minor in a different field altogether-say, an international trade law major might choose a minor such as Chinese language if he or she intends to work within the Asian marketplace-a concentration is often closely linked with the major, more tailored to a specific job description. Someone looking to establish a career related to electronic teaching methods and new media in education, for instance, might pursue a masters degree in education with a concentration in distance learning, or instructional technology.
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Forensic Science Degrees
Institutes across the United States offer a wide range of online and campus-based forensics programs including criminal investigations, forensic science, digital forensics, computer forensics training, and crime scene technician training, at both the Masters and Doctoral levels.
Graduates of Master of Science in Forensic Computing gain both an understanding of criminal justice issues related to electronic crime investigation and a computer science foundation in forensic computing. The theoretical grounding of the computing curriculum equips the students to respond to the continuously changing technical and legal challenges in the field and participate in research and training in computer forensics and security techniques. The practical side of the curriculum equips students to work as forensic computing specialists in such roles as cyber-investigators, first responders, technicians in forensic labs and consultants on computer security issues.
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Release Extra Weight and Break Free From Habits by Understanding Cognitive Dissonance
Many people these days are talking about the movie The Secret and how the mind affects the body. If you’ve been struggling with weight loss or unproductive eating habits, understanding the mind body connection might be the key to help you release the struggle and attain your goals. Not everyone realizes that The Secret is backed by research and psychological theory that has been taught in psychology classes for close to 50 years. Even medical science (i.e. the placebo response) lends support to this powerful concept.
One psychological theory that lends some support to the idea that your thinking creates your reality is the concept of cognitive dissonance. There’s a great definition of cognitive dissonance at Wikipedia. In part cognitive dissonance is “a psychological term which describes the uncomfortable tension that comes from holding two conflicting thoughts at the same time, or from engaging in behavior that conflicts with one’s beliefs….The theory of cognitive dissonance states that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions.”
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