1. Curriculum charts and time in undergraduate education.
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Nespor, Jan
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CURRICULUM , *COLLEGE students , *UNDERGRADUATE programs , *ORGANIZATION , *HIGHER education , *STUDENTS , *SOCIOLOGY , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
This paper examines the organization and representation of time in certain kinds of undergraduate programs, here represented by a sociology program in a US university. Written requirements for the major are analyzed as constituting a 'chart' that defines academic time in terms of units of before-after relationships. The paper shows how students 'reuse' these temporal units when charting paths through the university and reckoning their academic work to specific futures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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