Aligning Instruction with Extension Professional Competencies for an Enhanced Undergraduate Extension Education Minor
This paper reports on a three-year initiative to enhance the undergraduate Extension Education minor at a state land-grant university. Specific initiatives to improve the undergraduate Extension Education minor curriculum involved (a) revising the Extension Education minor due to varied curriculum a...
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| author | Joseph L. Donaldson Wendy Warner Jacklyn Bruce Joy Morgan Harriett Coleman Edwards Rose Vaughan |
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| description | This paper reports on a three-year initiative to enhance the undergraduate Extension Education minor at a state land-grant university. Specific initiatives to improve the undergraduate Extension Education minor curriculum involved (a) revising the Extension Education minor due to varied curriculum and faculty changes and (b) aligning eight Extension Education courses’ units of study with Extension professional competency domains. The described processes helped understand the Extension Education curriculum by mapping competency domains and showing which domains were and were not taught in the eight courses. A key recommendation is to incorporate the alignment of Extension Education curriculum and Extension professional competencies into the Extension summer internship program, among other uses. Furthermore, it is recommended that faculty engage in a similar effort to map college curricula to professional competencies to ensure that academic minors have a clear purpose in preparing students for careers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-77e734f086264fc290c566085b06632e2023-09-29T16:16:25ZengMississippi State UniversityJournal of Human Sciences and Extension2325-52262022-01-01103https://doi.org/10.55533/2325-5226.1437Aligning Instruction with Extension Professional Competencies for an Enhanced Undergraduate Extension Education MinorJoseph L. Donaldson 0Wendy Warner 1Jacklyn Bruce 2Joy Morgan 3Harriett Coleman Edwards 4Rose Vaughan 5North Carolina State University North Carolina State University North Carolina State University North Carolina State University North Carolina State University North Carolina State University This paper reports on a three-year initiative to enhance the undergraduate Extension Education minor at a state land-grant university. Specific initiatives to improve the undergraduate Extension Education minor curriculum involved (a) revising the Extension Education minor due to varied curriculum and faculty changes and (b) aligning eight Extension Education courses’ units of study with Extension professional competency domains. The described processes helped understand the Extension Education curriculum by mapping competency domains and showing which domains were and were not taught in the eight courses. A key recommendation is to incorporate the alignment of Extension Education curriculum and Extension professional competencies into the Extension summer internship program, among other uses. Furthermore, it is recommended that faculty engage in a similar effort to map college curricula to professional competencies to ensure that academic minors have a clear purpose in preparing students for careers.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/jhse/vol10/iss3/12/undergraduatesextension education minorextension professional competency domains |
| spellingShingle | Joseph L. Donaldson Wendy Warner Jacklyn Bruce Joy Morgan Harriett Coleman Edwards Rose Vaughan Aligning Instruction with Extension Professional Competencies for an Enhanced Undergraduate Extension Education Minor Journal of Human Sciences and Extension undergraduates extension education minor extension professional competency domains |
| title | Aligning Instruction with Extension Professional Competencies for an Enhanced Undergraduate Extension Education Minor |
| title_full | Aligning Instruction with Extension Professional Competencies for an Enhanced Undergraduate Extension Education Minor |
| title_fullStr | Aligning Instruction with Extension Professional Competencies for an Enhanced Undergraduate Extension Education Minor |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aligning Instruction with Extension Professional Competencies for an Enhanced Undergraduate Extension Education Minor |
| title_short | Aligning Instruction with Extension Professional Competencies for an Enhanced Undergraduate Extension Education Minor |
| title_sort | aligning instruction with extension professional competencies for an enhanced undergraduate extension education minor |
| topic | undergraduates extension education minor extension professional competency domains |
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