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  2. Josephine Silone Yates - Wikipedia

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    Josephine taught chemistry, elocution, and English literature. [2] Upon her promotion to head of the natural science department, she became the first black woman to head a college science department [1] and the first black woman to hold a full professorship at any U.S. college or university. [3]

  3. English studies - Wikipedia

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    English studies is taught in a wide variety of manners, but one unifying commonality is that students engage with an English-language text in a critical manner. However, the methods of teaching a text, the manner of engaging with a text, and the selection of texts are all widely-debated subjects within the English studies field. [1]

  4. List of academic fields - Wikipedia

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    Complete JACS (Joint Academic Classification of Subjects) from Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in the United Kingdom Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC 2008) ( web-page ) Chapter 3 and Appendix 1: Fields of research classification.

  5. Academic discipline - Wikipedia

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    An academic discipline or academic field is a subdivision of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined (in part) and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties within colleges and universities to which their practitioners belong.

  6. History of the English language (education) - Wikipedia

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    The occasional passionate plea is made to promote HEL—J. E. Graves notes in a 1956 article in College English that proper courses in HEL are necessary for any future English teacher, and bemoans the perceived shoving aside of "language study in high school with non-rigorous semantics and 'learning situations.'" [4] One such plea came in 1961 ...

  7. Academic English - Wikipedia

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    An EAP program focuses instruction on skills required to perform in an English-speaking academic context across core subject areas generally encountered in a college or a university setting. [1] Programs may also include a more narrow focus on the more specific linguistic demands of a particular area of study, for example business subjects.

  8. Science education - Wikipedia

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    In English and Welsh schools, science is a compulsory subject in the National Curriculum. All pupils from 5 to 16 years of age must study science. It is generally taught as a single subject science until sixth form, then splits into subject-specific A levels (physics, chemistry and biology).

  9. Curriculum - Wikipedia

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    It should also include mathematics, science, history, and foreign language. According to Joseph Schwab, discipline is the sole source of curriculum. [citation needed] In our [whose?] education system, curriculum is divided into chunks of knowledge called subject areas in basic education including English, mathematics, science, and social studies.