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There’s a College for Golf

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Catch phrases have a tendency to become cliche fairly quickly. The idea that there’s an app for something has quickly expanded within American vernacular into a formula rather than a specific phrase. “There’s an X for that” is commonly heard across the country — usually to emphasize the existence of something that most people don’t know about. For instance, did you know that there’s a college for golf?

In fact, there are numerous programs around the country that are offering golf degrees to students. The coursework focuses on management subjects as well as hospitality and sales. All three of these are vital to anyone seeking employment as a golf course director or facilities manager. However, the coursework also prepares students to find jobs throughout the golf industry — whether working directly on golf or serving in support positions such as accounting or marketing. Because students are also expected to take golf classes to improve their skills and technique, it is a good way for individuals to train to become professional players as well as to become coaches or instructors.

Many college-aged kids are enrolling in programs in their local university while older students are finding that a dedicated golf college is a viable alternative. The best programs offer an accredited degree and connections to important internship opportunities to help students get hands on experience as part of their studies.

Getting an Industrial Psychology Degree

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Gone are the days when psychology meant studying Freud and Jung and Skinner and getting a general degree. Today, psychology students must specialize as any other professional does. They can choose between everything from child psychology to criminal psychology, from studying the behavior of individuals to analyzing organizations. Students who want to help organizations succeed would do well to obtain an organizational or industrial psychology degree.

Some universities are actually combining the two into a joint degree in I/O Psychology (Industrial and Organizational). The focus is on how to understand and maximize human capital within industrial and organizational constructs. As a part of the growing field of applied psychology, I/O advanced degrees are becoming key to an understanding of how large corporations and related entities work internally as well as how they relate to the external world.

Industrial psychology degree programs tend to focus on four areas: diversity, organizational effectiveness, leadership and management, and consumer psychology. Many programs now combine online study with regular classwork so that working students can work on a degree. Graduates are able to find work studying trends and teaching psychology in the non-profit and academic worlds. More importantly, they are well-equipped to work for corporations in everything from human resources to marketing and administration. Some students go on to become consultants, helping organizations with specific projects and human development programs or analyzing consumer behavior as part of product development.

Research to Further Distinction of Teaching Methods of Boys vs. Girls

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Researchers in child psychology, biology and education have agreed for a long time, that boys and girls have different abilities in the area of language and communication.  The University of Haifa, and the Chicago Northwestern University have produced findings that are unambiguous.  Both studies show that the sections of the brain that is connected with language differ dramatically, working harder in girls than those sections of the brain in boys.  And when the two genders are performing those language tasks, that different sections of the brain are at work.  The researchers used MRI machines to measure the activity in the brains of thirty one girls, and thirty one boys as they performed tasks of writing and spelling.  The children ranged in age from nine to fifteen.  What they found that girls respond in ways that are more abstract, and that the boys were more sensory motivated.  In this way, researchers, administrators and teachers are looking to find how better to attend to the differences in the Northumberland boarding schools, the private schools and the public schools throughout the country and the rest of the world.

Testing and teaching methods could change, will change.   Some of the differences which appear in children as far as the way one processes written and spoken word, do perhaps change by the time one reaches adulthood.  However, the learning process along the way, determines the kind of adulthood one grows into, and so the methods for classroom learning must address this.   As far as testing goes, the girls and their abstract ways of hearing and seeing and learning, suggest that standard testing methods for now, are sufficient.  For boys however, the researchers suggest that when testing boys on the lectures and written subjects it would be beneficial for them to be questioned orally.  This would make up for the auditory or visual hold up in the way in which they process information.  This is not to be seen as a deficiency, as in the days of evolution, for those in the primitive world, it was necessary for survival to notice signs of danger based on the sounds and the sights surrounding them.  It is a good adaption, and one that can be addressed in the modern world, in the contemporary classrooms.

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