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professional degree, you should research those
requirements so as to properly prepare yourself for that
next step in your education.
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Prior to picking a particular degree type it is important to
talk with a variety of people who are working in the career
area of interest and to those professors and administrators
delivering those college level programs. Counselors and
college advisors can also be a valuable source of
information and will be able to direct you to places and
people where all the information necessary to make an
informed decision can be gathered.
The Bachelor's Degree, sometime called a four year degree,
is made up of a minimum of 120 credit hours and comes in
many forms, such as the Bachelor of Arts, B.A., Bachelor of
Science, B.S., Bachelor of Business Administration, B.B.A.,
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, B.S.N. and the list goes on.
The most common of these are the B.A. and B.S which are
awarded in many diverse disciplines and are differentiated
by the amount of arts versus math and science contained in
each degree. Bachelor's Degrees can be stand alone,
meaning they do not begin with either a certificate or
associate degree. As such, they are often called zero-four
degrees which indicates a student would start at the
beginning (i.e., zero credits) and continue for four years or
120 credits until all of the Bachelor's Degree requirements
have been met. Bachelor's Degrees that begin with an
Associate Degree and ladder into a Bachelor's Degree
program are called 2 + 2 degrees (i.e., 2 year Associate
Degree plus 2 more years = the Bachelor's Degree).
Bachelor's degrees are made up of courses at several
levels: designated 100 and 200 level courses are considered
lower division and for Freshmen and Sophomores and 300
and 400 level courses are considered to be upper division
and designed to be more advanced for college Juniors and
Seniors. A Bachelor's Degree can be quite general as in and
B.A. in General Studies or very specific like a B.S. in
Mechanical Engineering. Depending on the institution,
bachelor's degrees are available in virtually any subject one
might be interested in from Agriculture to Zoology, from
Architecture to Theater will be available and prepare you for
employment or additional schooling upon graduation. For
instance a bachelor's degree in secondary education,
computer programming or engineering will prepare you for
immediate employment after graduation, whereas a
bachelor's degree in pre-med or pre-law will prepare you for
additional years of required professional school.
For information call Great Basin College Admission Advising
and Career Center at 775.753.2168
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Types of PostSecondary
Programs
and Degrees
Articles written by:
Dr. Mark A. Curtis, President
Great Basin College, 2013
(length and purpose of
each credential)
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�This brochure describes several types of postsecondary
credentials and is the third in a series of eight that will
provide readers information about many important aspects
of college.
Postsecondary or college credentials are first thought of as
being either at the undergraduate level or graduate level. At
the undergraduate level there are three common
credentials, the certificate, the associate degree and the
bachelor's degree. A college education will always begin at
the undergraduate level; as such, most of this column will
focus on undergraduate credential types. Near the end of
the column, graduate and professional degrees will be
discussed briefly.
THE CERTIFICATE
A certificate program is designed to both educate and train
an individual to do a specific job related occupation such as
a computer technician, mechanic, medical transcriptionist or
a welder. There are literally dozens of entry level
occupations that require a year or more of postsecondary
technical training. Because the typical certificate program is
so career focused, much of the course work referred to as
general studies (e.g., English, Humanities and Social
Science) has been removed leaving only the job related
technical essentials in the program of study.
A college program that results in the awarding of a
certificate is typically one academic year (i.e., 2 semesters)
in length and is comprised of approximately 30 semester
hours or ten separate courses. A semester hour is defined
as a course meeting one hour per week for 15 weeks and
for each hour of meeting time there will be a minimum of
two hours of outside work. It takes two to three hours of
meeting time per week for 15 weeks when a science lab or
activity course like welding is converted to credit hours.
THE ASSOCIATE DEGREE
Many times a certificate will ladder directly into an
associate degree, meaning the certificate can in some cases
be the first year of study in a two year associate degree.
The Associate Degree is two years in length (i.e., four
semesters) and contains a minimum of 60 semester hours
or approximately 20 separate courses. Individual courses
can be any number of semester hours in length, often
ranging from one to twelve credit hours with three or four
hour courses being the most common. The associate degree
comes in three forms, the Associate of Arts, the Associate
of Science and the Associate of Applied Science. Generally,
the Associate of Arts is a transfer degree (i.e., the first two
years of a bachelor's degree) in the area of English,
literature, arts, theater or music. The Associate of Science
is also a transfer degree in area of accounting, biology,
business, chemistry, computer science, education,
engineering, geography, geology, mathematics, or any other
discipline that has its foundation in math and science. The
Associate of Applied Science, A.A.S. is a technical career
focused degree that prepares an individual to enter the
workforce with specific skills. Examples of the A.A.S. are
Business Administration, Computer Aided Design,
Computer Technology, Criminal Justice, Diesel Technology,
Early Childhood Education, Electrical Systems Technology,
and Welding Technology. The A.A.S. degree has its own
terminal objectives which are job-ready focused. This
means that the typical A.A.S. has more technical and less
general studies content than the university transfer focused
Associate of Arts or Science Degrees. So, should the
individual earning the A.A.S. degree decide they wanted to
continue their education working toward a Bachelor’s
Degree, they will often have some general studies courses
to make up (e.g., 12-15 hours of humanities, social science,
and science coursework). However, much of the A.A.S.
degree will transfer to and count toward a Bachelor's
Degree (e.g., approximately 50 semester hours) and many
institutions have created bachelor's degrees that accept all
60 plus credits contained in an A.A.S Degree.
THE BACHELOR’S DEGREE
The Bachelor’s Degree, sometime called a four year degree,
is made up of a minimum of 120 credit hours and comes in
many forms, such as the Bachelor of Arts, B.A., Bachelor of
Science, B.S., Bachelor of Business Administration, B.B.A.,
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, B.S.N. and the list goes on.
The most common of these are the B.A. and B.S which are
awarded in many diverse disciplines and are differentiated
by the amount of arts versus math and science contained in
each degree. Bachelor's Degrees can be stand alone,
meaning they do not begin with either a certificate or
associate degree. As such, they are often called zero-four
degrees which indicate a student would start at the
beginning (i.e., zero credits) and continue for four years or
120 credits until all of the Bachelor's Degree requirements
have been met. Bachelor's Degrees that begin with an
Associate Degree and ladder into a Bachelor’s Degree
program are called 2 + 2 degrees (i.e., 2 year Associate
Degree plus 2 more years = the Bachelor’s Degree).
Bachelor’s degrees are made up of courses at several
levels: designated 100 and 200 level courses are considered
lower division for Freshmen and Sophomores and 300 and
400 level courses are considered to be upper division and
designed to be more advanced for college Juniors and
Seniors. A Bachelor’s Degree can be quite general as in a
B.A. in General Studies or very specific like a B.S. in
Mechanical Engineering. Additionally, some Bachelor's
Degrees specify virtually every course in the program (e.g.,
Nursing and Engineering) while others might contain what is
called a Major (i.e., 30-36 credit hours in a given subject
area) and also a Minor consisting of 20-24 credit hours; the
balance of such degrees is made up from general studies
courses and electives. Depending on the institution,
bachelor's degrees are available in virtually any subject one
might be interested in from Agriculture to Zoology or from
Architecture to Theater to prepare you for employment or
additional schooling upon graduation. For instance, a
bachelor's degree in secondary education, computer
programming or engineering will prepare a student for
immediate employment after graduation, whereas a
bachelor’s degree in pre-med or pre-law will prepare one for
additional years of required professional school.
GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL DEGREES
Upon or near the completion of a Bachelor’s Degree, an
individual will be eligible to apply to graduate school.
Graduate school offerings can be roughly divided into
academic degrees (i.e., Masters and Ph.D.s) and
professional degrees such as the Jurist Doctorate, Doctor of
Medicine, Doctor of Pharmacy and Doctor of Optometry. On
the academic side, Master's Degrees (30-60 credit hours
beyond the Bachelors Degree) and Ph.D.s (60 credit hours
beyond the Masters Degree) are offered in virtually every
known subject or discipline. The Ph.D. is an abbreviation for
the Doctor of Philosophy Degree which is available in most
subject areas and not just the humanities discipline of
philosophy.
Professional degrees are entered into directly after the
Bachelor’s Degree and require three-four years of formal
study which may include or be followed by a year-long
internship. Getting admitted into graduate or professional
school is competitive, requires very good undergraduate
grades, and may also include entrance exams, writing
samples, interviews, etc. So if you are just beginning your
path toward a career that includes/requires a graduate or
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Los títulos profesionales se entran inmediatamente después
de completar una licenciatura y requieren tres a cuatro años
de estudio y pueden incluir un año seguido de interno. Ser
admitido a una escuela de posgrado o profesional es
competitivo, requiere buenas calificaciones en los estudios
de licenciatura y también pueden incluir pruebas de
entrada, muestras de escritura, entrevistas, etc. Así que si
usted apenas está comenzando su camino hacia una carrera
que incluya/requiera un título de posgrado o profesional, es
necesario investigar los requisitos con el fin de estar
adecuadamente preparado para el próximo paso en su
educación.
NOTAS FINALES
Antes de elegir un tipo de título, es importante hablar con
una variedad de personas que estén trabajando en el área
de la carrera de su interés y con profesores y
administradores de la entrega de esos programas.
Consejeros y asesores universitarios también pueden ser
una valiosa fuente de información y podrán dirigirle a
lugares y personas con toda la información necesaria para
tomar una decisión informada.
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Articles written by:
Dr. Mark A. Curtis, President
Great Basin College, 2013
Translation:
Jose Torres
Conocimiento
de la
universidad
GBC
Los tipos de
programas
post-secundarios
y los títulos
(longitud y propósito
de cada credencial.)
www.gbcnv.edu
�Credenciales universitarias son vistas primero como ser del
nivel de licenciatura o licenciadas. Al nivel universitario, hay
tres credenciales comunes: el certificado, el título de
asociado, y el título de licenciatura. Una educación
universitaria comienzará en los tipos de credenciales de
licenciatura. La mayoría de esta columna se centrará en los
tipos de credenciales de licenciatura. Casi al final de la
columna, títulos profesionales y licenciados se discutirán
brevemente.
EL CERTIFICADO
Un programa de certificación es diseñado para educar y
entrenar a una persona a hacer una ocupación relacionada
con un trabajo específico, como un técnico de computación,
un transcriptor médico, o un soldador. Literalmente, hay
unas docenas de ocupaciones de nivel de entrada que
requieren un año o más de entrenamiento técnico. Debido a
que los programas de certificación son centrados en una
carrera, la gran parte del trabajo de los cursos son estudios
generales (por ejemplo: el inglés, las humanidades y las
ciencias sociales) han sido eliminadas dejando sólo el
trabajo relacionado con técnicas esenciales con el programa
de estudios.
Un programa de la universidad que da lugar la concesión de
un certificado, es típicamente un año académico(es decir,
dos semestres) de largo y se compone de aproximamente
30 horas por semestre o diez cursos diferentes. Una hora
de semestre se define como un curso que se encuentra una
hora a la semana durante 15 semanas y por cada hora de
encuentro, habrá un mínimo de dos horas de trabajo fuera
de la clase. Se necesitan dos o tres horas de tiempo de la
semana de encuentro por 15 semanas en un laboratorio de
ciencias o un curso de actividad como la soldadura para ser
convertidas a horas de crédito.
EL TÍTULO DE ASOCIADO
Muchas veces, un certificado escalera directamente a un
título de asociado, es decir, el certificado puede ser en
algunos casos el primer año de estudios en un título de
asociado de dos años. El título de asociado es de dos años
de duración (es decir, cuatro semestres) y contiene un
mínimo de 60 horas semestrales o aproximadamente 20
cursos diferentes. Los cursos individuales pueden ser
cualquier número de horas por la duración del semestre. A
menudo, van de una a doce horas de crédito con tres o
cuatro cursos siendo los más comunes. El título de asociado
se presenta en tres formas: el Asociado de Artes, el
Asociado de Ciencias y el Asociado de Ciencias Aplicadas.
En general, el Asociado de Artes es un título de
transferencia (es decir, los dos primeros años de una
licenciatura) en el área de el inglés, la literatura, las artes,
el teatro o la música. El Asociado de Ciencias también es
un título de transferencia en materias de contabilidad,
biología, negocios, química, informática de computación,
educación, ingeniería, geografía, geología, matemáticas o
cualquier otra disciplina que tenga su fundamento en las
matemáticas y la ciencia. El Asociado de Ciencias
Aplicadas, A.C.A. es un título centrado sobre una carrera
técnica. El título prepara a una persona para entrar en la
fuerza laboral con específicas habilidades. Ejemplos del
A.C.A. son la administración de empresas, el diseño
asistido por computación, la tecnología informática, la
justicia criminal, la tecnología de diesel, la educación
infantil, los sistemas de tecnología eléctrica y la tecnología
de soldadura. El título A.C.A. tiene sus propios objetivos
terminales centrados para entrar directamente a trabajar.
Esto significa que el A.C.A típicamente tiene más contenido
técnico y menos estudios generales para la transferencia
universitaria centrada por el Asociado de Artes o el
Asociado de Ciencias. Por lo tanto, si el individuo obtiene el
título de A.C.A y decide que quiere continuar su educación
trabajando hacia un titulo de licenciatura, que a menudo
tienen algunos cursos de estudios generales para
compensar (por ejemplo, 12-15 horas de cursos de
humanidades, ciencias sociales y ciencias naturales). Sin
embargo, gran parte del título de A.C.A. contará y se
transferirá a una licenciatura (por ejemplo, aproximamente
50 horas por semestre) y muchas instituciones han creado
licenciaturas que aceptan todas las 60 o más créditos
contenidos en un título de A.C.A.
el principio (es decir, con cero créditos) y continúa durante
cuatro años o a 120 créditos hasta que todos los requisitos
de la licenciatura se hagan cumplido. Las licenciaturas que
comienzan con un título de asociado y escaleran hacia un
programa de licenciatura se llaman títulos de 2+2 (es decir,
el título de asociado de 2 años mas 2 años mas = la
licenciatura). Las licenciaturas se componen de cursos de
varios niveles: cursos diseñados de 100 y 200 se consideran
del nivel inferior de la división de estudiantes en su primer y
segundo año. Cursos de 300 y 400 se consideran del nivel
de la división superior y son diseñados más avanzados para
estudiantes en su tercer y cuarto año en la universidad. Una
licenciatura puede ser general como una licenciatura de
estudios generales o algo específico como una licenciatura
de ciencias en ingeniería mecánica. Además, algunos títulos
de licenciaturas especifican todos los cursos en cada
programa (por ejemplo, la enfermería o la ingeniería),
mientras que otros pueden contener lo que se denomina
como un mayor de estudios (es decir, 30 a 36 horas de
crédito en un área específica) y un menor de estudios consta
de 20 a 24 horas de crédito, el sueldo de dichos títulos se
componen de cursos de estudios generales y electivos.
Dependiendo de la institución, títulos de licenciatura son
disponibles en casi en cualquier tema que uno pude estar
interesado, temas como la agricultura, la zoología, la
arquitectura y el teatro son ofrecidos para el empleo o para
educación adicional después de la graduación. Por ejemplo,
un titulo de licenciatura en la educación secundaria, la
programación informática o la ingeniería preparara al
estudiante para el empleo inmediatamente después de la
graduación, mientras que una licenciatura pre-medicina o
pre-leyes preparará a uno para años de escuela profesional
despues.
LA LICENCIATURA
La licenciatura, a veces llamada un título de cuatro años, se
compone de un mínimo de 120 horas de crédito y viene en
muchas formas, tales como la Licenciatura de Artes, L.A., la
Licenciatura de Ciencias, L.C., la Licenciatura de
Administración de Empresas. L.A.E., la Licenciatura de
Ciencias en Enfermería, L.C.E. y la lista continua. Las más
comunes son la L.A. y L.C. que se adjudican en disciplinas
muy diversas y se diferencian por la cantidad de las artes
frente a las matemáticas y la ciencia que se contiene en
cada título. Las licenciaturas pueden estar solas, eso se
significa que no empiezan con un certificado o título de
asociado. Como tal, a menudo estos títulos se llaman títulos
de cero a cuatro, eso indica que un estudiante empieza por
EL TÍTULO DE LICENCIADO Y PROFESIONAL
Sobre o cerca de completar una licenciatura, un individuo
será elegible para aplicar a la escuela de posgrado. Ofertas
de escuelas de posgrado se pueden dividir en títulos
académicos (es decir, la maestría o el doctorado) y títulos
profesionales como el Doctorado Jurista y el Doctor de
Medicina, el Doctor de Farmacia y el Doctor de Optometría.
En el aspecto académico, la maestría (30 a 60 horas de
crédito mas allá de la licenciatura) y doctorados (60 horas
de crédito mas allá de la maestría) son ofrecidos en casi
todos los sujetos o disciplinas conocidas. El Ph.D. es una
abreviatura para el título de doctor de filosofía, que es
disponible en la mayoría de las materias, y no solo en la
disciplina de humanidades de filosofía.
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