11 SPECIAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMS PRE-PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS Eckerd College regards liberal education as essential to thorough professional training and unites a broad freedom of student choice with graduate education in a number of fields: law and medical school, medical technology, the ministry, engineering, management, business administration, and selected public service, human development and community professions. Eckerd seeks to provide pre-professional experience through supervised internships rather than by professional and preprofessional courses that tend to limit the scope and quality of liberal ...
30 American Studies l understanding of the methods, scope, and perspective of the field of American Studies. l understanding of a core discipline in American Studies (e.g., American history, American literature, American government, Cultural Anthropology) and how it relates to the larger field of American Studies. An understanding of how the study of the core discipline is enriched by the interdisciplinary approach of American Studies. l ability to relate the various courses and approaches that have been taken as a part of the major program, and defend the interdisciplinary approach to the study ...
