preprofessional

Examples

• All

• The college provides various preprofessional courses to assist students in preparing for medical school.

• Historically, most arts schools served students at the secondary level, often providing preprofessional training.

  Academic text (2000)

• One of the most exuberant experiences in their preprofessional lives is achieving a score that results in conservatory admission.

  Academic text (2011)

• It is important to take advantage of whatever academic and musical training is offered and to have a wide variety and large amount of preprofessional teaching experiences, because these experiences enrich your understanding through application.

  Academic text (2004)

• This is a domain of dance learning that public education champions and one that places it outside the parameters of dance as taught in most preprofessional dance conservatories.

  Academic text (1994)

• But even prevocational and preprofessional education requires breadth, and for much of their education, students will ask themselves to learn useless things, things from which they are not going to make their living.

  Academic text (1998)

• As a result, the authors recommend that preprofessional education programs include information about LGB youth, values clarification, and ways to reduce homonegative attitudes.

  Academic text (2010)

• Nevertheless, social workers in TBI services can benefit from extensive preprofessional training as well as continuing education specific to the needs of people with TBI and their family caregivers.

  Academic text (2001)

• For this group of English-major presidents, their undergraduate degree served as a preprofessional degree that prepared them for their professional work in what is viewed as an unrelated field: community college leadership (Beidler, 1985).

  Academic text (2010)

• In recognizing this, the Cooperative Pharmacy Program incorporates retention mechanisms such as monthly advisements and individual mentoring during their first two years of preprofessional coursework.

  Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

V

vocational

vspreprofessional

31 4.2

Education and training that prepare people for a specific job

focuses on earlier studies that prepare someone before entering a chosen career

P

preparatory

vspreprofessional

15 4.7

To help get ready for something

focuses on studies aimed specifically at preparing for a profession

P

prevocational

vspreprofessional

6.9

Courses that prepare people for work or job training

targets studies preparing for a specific career rather than general work readiness

P

propaedeutic

vspreprofessional

• Formal

9.9

Acting as an introduction that prepares students for later study in a subject

is focused on career preparation rather than general academic introductions

How Career-Focused

professional

∞ 3.4

preprofessional

6.3

vocational

31 4.2

academic

42 3.6

general

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology