Strategically Implementing the “Z” (for Zoom)-Option in Graduate Education
How Covid Helped Revivify a Sputtering MA Program in the Humanities
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.23550Keywords:
higher education, graduate studies, religious studiesAbstract
The Department takes a look at how academic programs in our field adapt to the changing landscape of higher education. In this edition, Carl Raschke shares how and why the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Denver developed a remote option for their M.A. program. The “Z”- Option, as they call it, addresses social, cultural, and economic trends in U.S. universities with a forward-thinking and researched proposal that should be on your radar.
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