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through methodological rigor and studious effort. It is also employed as an information-management strategy, which operates by fragmenting an issue into different fields or areas of expertise to obtain truth. In recent years, a new avenue of specialization has manifested through double majoring. It
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As the volume of knowledge accumulated by humanity became too great, increasing specialization in academia appeared in response. There are also cases when this concept emerged from state policymaking to pursue goals such as
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practices. In the case of an educator, academic specialization pertains to the subject that they specialize in and teach. It is considered a precondition of objective truth and works by restricting the mind's propensity for
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who began coordinating academic specialization — through the founding of the
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is a way to allow for a more diverse exposure to the college curriculum.
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at an academic institution, or may refer to the field in which a
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"Academic Specialization, Double Majoring, and the Threat to Breadth in Academic Knowledge"
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"Adventures in Academia: The Dangers of (Over)Specialization"
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