BANDUNG, unpas.ac.id – Teaching and Education is a study that commonly prepares its graduates to become a teacher. Students will be prepared by various skills to support their implementation of the noble profession.
To support academic and education implementation, especially education studies, Universitas Pasundan has its own Faculty of Teaching and Education (Fakultas Keguruan and Ilmu Pendidikan, FKIP) to keep committed to create professional and competitive graduates.
Although there are a lot of graduates working and involving in an educational institution, the prospect of teaching and education studies graduates varies in different field. Unpas FKIP always makes its students to create an attitude of nyantri, nyunda, nyakola, nyantika, smart, endurance and teamwork.
- Pancasila and Nationality Education
In the Department of Pancasila and Nationality Education, students will study about the education of nationality, politics, law and knowledge about relevant studies. This department also prepares its students with moral integrity, religiosity and strong personality. Students are also trained to be able to prepare, implement and evaluate both process and result of the subject.
This department is also suitable for students who have interest to nationality studies, government, politics and matters pertaining to the state. Not only being formed as teachers, graduates of this department can also become part of the State Apparatuses (Aparatur Sipil Negara, ASN), maintain the learning system of the subject, even become an observer on educational, social, law and society issues.
- Economics Education
There might be those who wonders about the difference between Economics Education and Economic Studies. They are indeed different. Economic Studies discuss about aspects of economic applications, such managerial system, analysis of product supply-and-demand, et cetera; while department of Economics Education focuses more on the economics (as a school subject) learning system.
Other than focusing on economic and education studies, Department of Economics Education also learns about management and accounting. Since it is prepared with non-education studies as well, graduates’ career of this department varies in different fields, such as accountant, banking employee, entrepreneur, financial consultant and auditor.
- Bahasa and Indonesian Literature Education
Like learning foreign language, it is also hard and quite complex to learn Bahasa Indonesia. In this case, the department of Bahasa and Indonesian Literature Education does not only properly and effectively teach Indonesian language skills, but also literature, language aesthetics, structure and grammar and so on.
Like learning a foreign language, learning Indonesian is also quite complex, Wargi Unpas. In this case, the PBSI FKIP Unpas study program does not only teach Indonesian language skills well and effectively, but also about literature, language aesthetics, structure and grammar, and so on.
A profession of Bahasa Indonesia teacher holds a main important role in instilling sense of love and nationalism through language. Until now, the department has produced many professional teachers, both in formal and informal educational institutions. Just like other education study programs, graduates of the department can also work in a non-academic field, such as translators, literary activists, content writers, or book editors.
- Biology Education
Want to be good at teaching as well as deepening biology science and its derivatives? This department, Biology Education is a suitable choice. Graduates of this department must understand how to teach and educate appropriately, as well as master the sciences related to the living things, anatomy, genetics, botany and so on.
The main prospect of this department’s graduates is to create a competent educator. However, becoming a teacher is not only the one opportunity. Other subjects studied in this department really support other chance to develop other careers in medical field, analyst, or researcher.
- Mathematics Education
It is not hard to differentiate between department of Mathematics Education and Pure Mathematics. In the Department of Mathematics Education, students will get the basic of educational science. Its subjects consist of mathematics basic, such as algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, trigonometry, discrete mathematics and so on.
Since it is backgrounded with educational science, graduates of this department have their opportunity to open a mathematics private tutoring as studying alternatives for students outside school. Other than that, chances to be a data scientist, master teacher in the educational startup, research and development and system analyst are also open for the graduates.
- Primary School Teacher Education
Who said teaching elementary school students was easy? Being a primary school teacher needs a lot of broad knowledge, such as in Bahasa Indonesia, Mathematics, Natural Science, Social Science, Pancasila and Nationality Education and Art and Culture as well. Primary school teacher is responsible to build student’s character since they are little and provide the knowledge basic to get into the next step of education.
Indonesia still needs many teachers for primary school, especially in 3T (terdepan, terluar dan tertinggal) regions (frontier, outermost, underdeveloped). Graduates of this department can contribute to the equal distribution of educational quality by doing various ways, both by teaching at school, being a volunteer, giving training of creative teaching, or trying another professions outside educational field.
How is it? Interesting, huh? Right now, change your mindset that graduates of education department only can be a teacher. Other that becoming a teacher, there are a lot of prospects waiting for them. So, what are you waiting for? Join Unpas Faculty of Teaching and Education right now (Reta Amaliyah S)*.