Career Vocab
College/University
Trades
Debate Parts
Other Debate Parts
100

This is an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress

What is a career?

100

A requirement that must be fulfilled prior to moving on

What is a pre-requisite?

100

Offers degree programs in many different areas, especially skilled trades

What is Vocational/Technical School?

100
Statement or question which defines the scope of the debate

What is a resolution?

100

One side asks clarifying questions about the other side's argument. 

What is cross-examination?

200

Something you can do; a developed talent

What is a skill/ability

200

Two college entrance exams that need to be taken before or during your high school senior year

What is ACT and SAT tests?

200

A school that offers instruction in one or two particular areas

What is Trade School?

200

A statement that shows how the value will be achieved

What is the value criterion?

200

Well reasoned analysis that provide theoretical reasons to believe a claim is true

What is logical/analytical?

300

A natural talent and capacity for learning certain areas

What is aptitude

300

What you need to have to get into a school

What are admission requirements?

300

A program where individuals learn on-the-job and also take classes

What is an apprenticeship?

300

Argument that disagrees with the resolution statement

What is the Negative?

300

Specific arguments for the side of the resolution you are defending. 

What is a contention?

400

A part of your personality

What is a trait?

400
A two-year college degree from a community college, university, college or career school

What is an Associate's Degree?

400
A group of careers that share common features

What is a career cluster?

400

The difference between the affirmative and negative

What is the clash?

400

A claim about how the world is.

What is a descriptive claim?

500

How you rate things in your life

What are values?

500

You have to get this degree before you can get any Graduate degree

What is a bachelor's degree?

500

An organized approach to career planning

What is a Career Pathway?

500
A short specific and single premise argument

What is a claim?

500

A claim about how the world should be.

What is a prescriptive claim?

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