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    【本文系转载】 还在纠结选专业?你知道有人为自己“设计”专业吗?!

    2015-07-26
                            

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    还在纠结选专业?你知道有人为自己设计专业吗?!

    Lexi是一名获得Angier B. Duke奖学金的本科在读学生。有志于综合全球卫生保健、研究和临床实践三项,她为自己的生命伦理学专业做了独家规划。她本人参加了校园内的一系列项目,包括新发起于杜克大学全球卫生研究所的Bass Connection、杜克医院的志愿者小组,她还是杜克大学本科生命伦理学学会的联合主席。Lexi是卡梅隆的超级粉丝,喜爱瑜伽、历史小说,还热衷于实践Durham精妙绝伦的菜谱。

    In February of 2012, the New York Times published an article about schools around the country that allow students to design their own majors, or courses of study. At that time, I was a sophomore at Duke taking a class called Genome Sciences and Society. This class is one of the 15 core classes in my Program II major in Bioethics. Duke has one of, if not the, oldest make-your-own major programs in the country and when I was applying to college, I knew I wanted to pursue an interdisciplinary course of study. The process of creating a new major varies from one university to another, but at Duke, it involves first finding an advisor who is a professor appointed in an undergraduate department that sponsors another major (for me, that’s philosophy). Then, students plan out a core curriculum of 14-16 classes and write a 5-page essay about why their self-designed major is a legitimate course of study. A committee of 3-5 faculty members and deans review the proposals and either approve them or suggest possible improvements.

     

    2012年二月,纽约时报发表了一篇探讨美国国内一些大学允许学生自行选择专业和课程这一现状的文章。当时,作为杜克大学的一名大二学生,我在上一门叫做基因组科学的课。这是我项目二生物伦理学专业的十五门核心课程之一。杜克大学是全国大学中最早允许学生自己选择专业和课程的(或最早之一)。当我申请大学的时候,我下决心要学习很多跨学科的课程。不同的大学创造一个新专业的过程也不一样,在杜克大学,申请一个新专业需要先找一个赞助其他专业的本科生部门(对我来说是哲学专业),并从中找一个部门指定的教授做顾问。然后,学生需要设计包括十四至十六门核心课程在内的课程计划并且撰写一篇五页的论文来阐述为什么自己所设计的专业是合乎学校要求的。一个由三到五名教职员工和系主任组成的委员会将审核学生的提议。他们还可能给想给自己设计出新专业的学生提出一些改进方案。

     

    Some popular self-designed majors have centered around global health, environmental issues, human rights, childhood education, bioethics, biopsychosocial wellness, and genomics, to name a few. There are a few distinct advantages to designing your own major. The first and most obvious is that you avoid taking classes simply because they are required to complete a degree. A self-designed course of study basically guarantees that you will be engaged by and interested in all of the classes on your schedule. Additionally, there is a special sort of learning that occurs when the material from your classes overlap across disciplines. This adds a depth of understanding that is otherwise difficult to achieve.

     

    举例来说,一些热门的学生自己设计的专业是关于全球卫生,环境问题,人权,儿童教育,生物伦理,生物心理健康和基因组的。自己设计专业有一些很特殊的优势。最大的优势在于可以避免单纯为了拿学位而上课。自己设计的专业能够保证学生对所有专业课程都非常感兴趣。另外,跨学科学习相比其他学习方式非常特殊,这种学习方式可能在某些方面能让学生对课程内容有更加深刻的理解。并且这种效果可能是其他学习方式达不到的。

     

    Often, students (or more often, their parents) are worried that a self-designed major is not as attractive to future employers or graduate schools as a traditional major would be. My response to this concern is twofold. If a reputable university offers a major, chances are that businesses and schools know that the course of study is legitimate. And more importantly, designing your own major gives you 5-10 minutes in an interview to explain that process, why you chose to do so, and basically talk about the one topic on which you can be considered an expert. This is a huge advantage that allows you to showcase your passion and academic prowess. Now obviously if your interests can be accommodated by established degree programs or combinations of existing programs, most universities will encourage you to study those degrees. After all, there are reasons that established majors have produced successful graduates for so many years. But as the lines between disciplines continue to blur and our generation is called to collaborate and think in nuanced and integrated ways, the interdisciplinary, self-designed major uniquely prepares students to meet these challenges in a variety of fields.

     

    很多情况下,学生(或是家长)很担心相比那些传统专业,自己设计的专业对于将来找工作或是申请读研究生不利,因为他们觉得自己设计的专业可能会得不到认可。我认为这个问题需要从两方面来看。如果一个声誉很好的大学的学生自己设计专业,那很有机会得到公司和其他学校的认可。更重要的是,在面试的时候,自己设计的专业会让你有五至十分钟阐述自己设计专业这个过程,为什么自己设计专业,这样就有机会就自己很熟悉,很擅长的话题来和面试官交流。这是一个巨大的优势,因为这样有机会展示自己对于这方面的热情和卓越的学术才能。很明显,如果你的兴趣所在能够适应现有的学位项目,或者通过混合几个学位项目可以实现的话,学校会建议你参加这些项目,而不是自己设计专业。毕竟这么多年来,现有的专业能持续培养成功的毕业生是有原因的。但是当下学科之间的界限逐渐变得模糊,我们这一代也被看作是能够细腻并综合地思考的一代。自行设计专业这种跨学科的学习方式能够让学生准备好面对各种领域的挑战。

     

     

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