BACKGROUND AND AIMS Past research has examined eating disorder risk among college students majoring in Nutrition and has suggested an increased risk, while other studies contradict these results. Exercise Science majors, however, have yet to be fully examined regarding their risk for eating disorders and exercise dependence. Based on pressures to fit the image associated with careers related to...

Gillen, Christopher M., Jasmine Vaughan, and Bethany R. Lye. An online tutorial for helping nonscience majors read primary research literature in biology. Adv Physiol Educ 28: 95–99, 2004; 10.1152/advan.00044.2003.—Using primary literature is an effective tool for promoting active learning and critical thinking in science classes. However, it can be challenging to use primary literature in larg...

The present study focused on perceptions of procrastination and how they relate to stereotypes of procrastination according to academic major; specifically, how students viewed procrastination of psychology majors versus non-psychology majors. Psychology and non-psychology students from a small college in Western Pennsylvania volunteered to respond to the survey. Participants rated themselves a...

Macalester College offers a single undergraduate elective in artificial intelligence. This course is cross-listed between Computer Science and Cognitive and Neuroscience Studies, and includes majors from both disciplines. Computer science students bring strong technical knowledge and skills but little awareness of the deeper issues of cognition and intelligence, while neuroscience students brin...

When a small, Midwestern business school launched required, four-year career development curriculum, robust practicum courses, and dynamic, co-curricular program, it proved itself to be in the vanguard of practices. Due extensive experiential learning this program provides, greater numbers accounting majors are graduating with raised employment aspirations knowledge, skills, confidence begin th...

Given the importance of communication skills in the classroom and workplace, it is surprising that no extant research focuses explicitly on senior-level information systems (IS) majors and their levels of communication apprehension (CA). To fill that void, this study examines the levels of CA among seniorlevel IS majors. Participants (n = 51) enrolled in an IS senior capstone course completed t...