Tuition is rising, but the college experience isn't changing.
USA Today's annual list of the most popular college majors has found that American students stick to the same basic set of majors: business, nursing, education, finance, pre-law, etc.
Netflix offers dozens of thought provoking documentaries for users at all points of their study – for everyone from burned out college students to reignite their interests to graduating high school students gearing up for university life. Here are nine Netflix documentaries for the next class of graduates:
"Remote Area Medical"
Recommended for: Pre-medical and nursing majors/graduates
Why they should see it: "Remote Area Medical" follows a mobile health care unit bringing health, dental, and eyecare to East Tennessee. A team of volunteer radiologists, optometrists, and physicians set up a free healthcare event for three days, bringing healthcare to a town in desperate need of access.
The RAM was founded in 1985 to bring healthcare to villages in sub-Saharan Africa, but later shifted to rural parts of the U.S. like Appalachia. The parallel is both obvious and tragic: people in Appalachia in 2012 have equivalent healthcare access to the world's most vulnerable people. Anyone who wants to work in healthcare must see this engrossing documentary about the importance of healthcare and its heartbreaking effects when denied.
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"Spanish Lake"
Recommended for: Sociology majors/graduates
Why they should see it: Sociology graduates should study this frank and well-researched look at the transformation of a Missouri town from a white suburb to a nearly all black ghetto. Told largely from the perspective of the people in the town, residents agree on a general sequence of events: Spanish Lake, a mostly white suburb, rapidly integrated over time, creating an unsustainable social system of crime, poverty, and drug use. Race, class, gender, and geography are all carefully examined in this breakdown of what exactly happened to Spanish Lake, making it crucial for students interested in the civic consequences of integration.
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"Girl Rising"
Recommended for: Education, Gender Studies, and Anthropology majors/graduates
Why they should see it: Nothing better reveals the true value of education than what women around the world are willing to sacrifice to get it. In countries like Nepal, Egypt, and Peru, education is denied to young girls. "Girl Rising" shows the transformative potential of education, not just for students but for their nations. It's a narrated series of nine shorts, each following a young girl in a different country.
The young women tell their stories of struggle and success, and of trying to better themselves even as they're ignored by peers and the norms of their countries. Future teachers or students studying gender should see this "Girl Rising" to engage with the true value of education and the staggering, disempowering effects of its absence.
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