Greg Heileman heileman@unm - New Mexico State Universitystatewide-gen-ed.nmsu.edu/wp-content/.../Heileman...Meta-Majors Greg Heileman [email protected] Associate Provost University

Meta-Majors

Greg [email protected]

Associate ProvostUniversity of New Mexico

New Mexico Common Core SummitJanuary 13, 2016

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Meta-Majors

A meta-major is a collection of academic programs that havecommon or related content.

Undecided students – some of these students have a general idea ofthe topic they want to study.

Meta-majors will help them choose the classes that will start them outon the correct path to a number of related degrees.

These can be computed directly from sets of degree requirements, ifthey are stored in a way that allows inspection and automatedreasoning. I.e., we don’t have to create them, we can find them.

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Meta-Majors

Major 1 Major 2

Major 3

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Meta-Majors

Creating meta-majors within an institution is easy.

Inter-institutional meta-majors is another matter!

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Meta-Majors

Institution 1Major (AS)

Institution 2Major (BS)

PublicSpeaking

CoreCore

TechnicalWriting

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Questions?

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