Majors and Degrees
National University awards associate degrees and bachelor’s degrees in a variety of majors, including accounting, behavioral science, business, communications, computer science, criminal justice, finance, management, marketing, mathematics, psychology, and technical and vocational education.
Academic Program
Courses are organized in an intensive, one-month format (形式) that allows a working adult to maintain a high degree of flexibility while attending college in the evenings and selected Saturdays. Each degree program contains a required series of core courses, with either a choice, of electives or a special emphasis available to fulfill degree requirements. Because National University begins new classes each month, it is possible to complete a 75-quarter-unit degree program in fifteen months.
Academic Facilities
National University’s library has been developed with attention to the overall educational purpose
It is, perhaps, no accident that many of the outstanding figures of the past were exceptionally versatile men. Right up until comparatively recent times, it was possible for an intelligent person to acquaint himself with almost every branch of knowledge. Thus, men of genius like Leonardo da Vinci or Sir Philip Sidney, engaged in many careers at once as a matter of course. 61) Da Vinci was so busy with his numerous inventions that he barely found the time to complete his paintings; Sidney, who died in battle when he was only thirty-two years old, was not only a great soldier but a brilliant scholar and poet as well. Both these men came very near to fulfilling the Renaissance ideal of the "universal man", the man who was proficient at everything.
Today, we rarely, if ever, hear that a musician has just invented a new type of submarine. Knowledge has become divided and subdivided into countless, narrowly defined compartments. The specialist is venerated; the
We offer here some principles for teaching extensive reading as a tool for professional development. These are what we believe the basic ingredients of extensive reading. We encourage teachers to use them as a way to examine their beliefs about reading in general and extensive reading in particular, and the ways they teach foreign language reading. We posit these principles in the hopes that others will consider them and react to them.
(41) The reading material is easy.
This clearly separates extensive reading from other approaches to teaching foreign language reading. For extensive reading to be possible and for it to have the desired results, texts must be well within the learners’ reading competence in the foreign language.
(42) A variety of reading material on a wide range of topics must be available.
The success of extensive reading depends largely on enticing students to read. To awaken or en courage a desire to read, the
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