Study in America

Brief Descriptions of Each Field of Study
Taxation. Prepares individuals to provide tax advice and management services to individuals and corporations. Includes instruction in tax law and regulations, tax record systems, individual and corporate income taxation, partnerships and fiduciary relationships, estates and trusts, property depreciation, and capital gains and losses.

Teacher assistance. Prepares individuals to assist teachers in regular classroom settings or to instruct and supervise special student populations, such as bilingual/bicultural students, special education students, and adult learners. Includes instruction in techniques of general classroom supervision and in assisting with lessons.

Teacher education, multiple levels. Prepares individuals to teach students at more than one education level, such as a combined program

in elementary/secondary, early childhood/elementary/middle school, or junior high/high school education.

Teaching ESL/foreign language. The principles and practice of teaching English to students who are not proficient in it or who do not speak, read, or write English.

Technical and business writing. The methods and skills needed for writing and editing scientific, technical, and business papers and monographs.

Technical education. Prepares individuals to teach specific vocational education programs.

Technical theater/theater design and stagecraft. Prepares individuals to apply artistic, technical, and dramatic principles and techniques to the communication of dramatic information, ideas, and feelings. Includes instruction in set and lighting design, theater acoustics, property management, costume design, and technical direction and production.

Technology/industrial arts education. Prepares individuals to teach technology education/industrial arts programs at various education levels.

Telecommunications. Prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge to analyze and evaluate the production, storage, and transmission of messages via radio, TV, cable, telephone, and other emerging electronic communications technologies. Explores their structures, economics, and effects in contemporary society. Includes instruction in information technologies, telecommunication media arts, and multichannel and broadcast management.

Textile sciences and engineering. Prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development, and operational evaluation of systems to test and manufacture fibers and fiber products, both synthetic and natural; to develop new and improved fibers and textiles; and to analyze related engineering problems, such as molecular synthesis, chemical manufacturing, and strength and stress.

Theological and ministerial studies. Prepares individuals for the professional study and practice of theology and ministry.

Theological professions (B.Div., M.Div, Talmudical, Rabbinical). A professional program that prepares individuals for ordination as ministers, priests, or rabbis. Includes instruction in the theology, history, and writings of a particular church.

Theological studies. The study of the beliefs and doctrines of a particular religious faith from the point of view of that faith. Includes instruction in systematic theology, historical theology, moral theology, doctrinal studies, dogmatics, apologetics, and applications to specific questions of ecclesiastical policy and religious life.

Theoretical and mathematical physics. The scientific and mathematical formulation and evaluation of the physical laws governing, and models describing, matter-energy phenomena. Includes instruction in classical and quantum theory, relativity theory, field theory, vector and coordinate analysis, wave and particle theory, and statistical theory and analysis.

Tourism and travel marketing. Prepares individuals to market various travel and tourism settings.

Toxicology. The scientific study of the nature, identification, and characteristics of poisons, toxic substances, and exogenous chemical agents, and their effect on biological organisms. Includes instruction in environmental biology, chemico-physiological mechanisms, genetic toxicology, and the development of toxic defenses and antidotes.

Trade and industrial education. Prepares individuals to teach specific vocational trades and industry programs at various education levels.

Transportation and material moving. Prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to move people or materials, via air or ground.

Transportation management. Program explores major modes of transportation, their characteristics, functions, and inherent advantages, to prepare individuals for management positions with shipper, carrier, or government agencies involved in transportation. Includes instruction in transportation and logistics, public transport management, private carrier management, and physical distribution management.

Travel-tourism management. Prepares individuals to manage travel-related enterprises and convention and/or tour services. Includes instruction in travel agency management; tour, convention, and event planning; travel industry operations and procedures; tourism marketing and promotion strategies; and travel industry law.

Turf management. Prepares individuals to develop, manage, and maintain ornamental or recreational grassed areas, to prepare and maintain athletic playing surfaces, and to produce turf for transplantation.