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Coastal Marine Science for Law and Business Students: Preparing Law and Business Professionals to Make "Informed Decisions" About Coastal Issues
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Niebuhr, David Harold Butler, Lynda L. Rahtz, Don R. Anderson, Britt E. Lawrence, April N. |
| Copyright Year | 1998 |
| Abstract | The rigors of employment-directed undergraduate education. and decreased emphasis on "Liberal Arts" studies occurring at some colleges and universities has left many graduates with a level of scientific understanding which is inadequate to make infonned choices about issues which effect the environment. To address this lack of scientific understanding, the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Virginia) and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, with the Marshall-Wythe School of Law and the School of Business Administration of the College of William and Mary are developing a Coastal Ecosystem Science Program to teach future law and business professionals the basics of coastal marine science. The Program is being developed after front-end evaluation (telephone survey of lawlbusiness faculty members from schools, law and business graduate students and industry professionals from around the United States) which explored the need, successful fonnat, length and other essential or logistical elements of program design. Fonnative evaluation will continue through student pre-, and post-, testing to evaluate content, infonnation transfer and retention. This program teaches the basic principles of coastal, environmental science to all law and business students (not just those students with experience in environmental science). The goal of this program is to ensure that future lawyers and business leaders will be able to make "infonned decisions" about issues which effect the coastal environment. The development of the program, initial survey and focus group results, essential elements of the program design, evaluation of pilot presentations and plans for pilot-year testing in schools across the country will be discussed. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2252&context=facpubs |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
