Assistance Form for degree and course
and equivalent learning documentation.
Bachelor
of Science Equivalency
how to document educational
equivalent undergraduate experiences.
Masters
Equivalent Education Waiver how
to document
educational equivalent Master's level experiences
COURSE EQUIVALENCY
Use this form for review and
determination of acceptability of prior learning experiences
and transfer credit preparation for courses that permit it.
This documentation process
is based on you having a basic knowledge of the Natural Systems
Thinking Process. You should not proceed with it until you have
successfully completed the online Orientation Course ECO 500
ECO 501, and ECO 508.
Courses used in previous degree
programs may be equivalent or brought to graduate level and used
to partially meet degree requirements. You must demonstrate your
ability to introduce NSTP into these courses.You want to be sure
that you are taking enough IGE coursework to master NSTP and
not have this weakened by transferring in coursework that does
not help meet this goal.
Through documentation and approval
processes described below you may transfer into the degree program,
for course fulfillment requirements, creditworthy elements in
your background for which sufficient credible evidence and assessment
exists of advanced level learning. These include challenge, proficiency
and equivalency exams, degree appropriate work, on site training,
independent study, continuing education, conference participation,
personal achievements, hobbies, and military training, that are
appropriate within a course or thesis, or otherwise improve professional
competency in the degree field.
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Applied
Ecopsychology / Integrated Ecology Degree Program
Student's Name:
Email address
Telephone
Name of Degree Program Course
or waiver that this equivalency for courses or course requirements
is submitted:
Possible thesis or project
topic if known:
PORTFOLIO OPERANTS
Be sure to
call Dr. Cohen before working
on this form as other options may be available or you may not
be eligible for transfer in your program. 360-378-6313
Section A. Procedures to
transfer Life Experience learning
Respond to the questions below
as best you can.
Please enclose all validating
documents in your portfolio (letters, affirmations by others,
photographs, samples of work, )
1. Creatively, but convincingly,
convey in writing the life experience, describing it as if it
was a formal course.
Convincingly convey why
this equivalency and the hours you assign to it are appropriate
for meeting the requirements of the course you have selected
to list it under.
Respond to the following
questions whenever
possible.
2. What was the date the "course"
was taken? What documentation validates this?
3. What would be the subject
area of the course ( psychology, physical training, ecology,
administration etc. For what Core course or Elective in the Degree
Program would it serve as prior equivalent education to waiver
hours, requirements or coursework otherwise required?.
4. What would be the name of
the course?
5 Where did you take the course?
6. Why did you take the course?
7. What grade did you get,
or would you give yourself in the course. How did you determine
this grade?
8. How many parallel learning
hours did you engage in producing new skills and competencies?
What documentation, if any, do you have that validates this?
9. Who taught or instructed
the course (book, presenter, experience, activity, friend, curriculum?)
What documentation do you have that validates this?
10. What were the qualifications
of the instructor (training, background, skills, awards, position?)
What documentation validates this?
11. How was the course presented
or taken, what did you do, what process did you engage in? What
documentation do you have that validates this?
12. How many hours did you
consciously engage in webstring connected thinking and relating?
13. How many hours did you
engage in using old skills and competencies? What value, or was
learned from this, in terms of your present goals?
14. How would you integrate
or explain this course in terms of supporting or deteriorating
webstrings?
15. What was your skill or
competency level in this subject before you took the course?.
What documentation do you have that validates this?
16. What was you skill or competency
level in this subject when you finished the course?. What documentation
do you have that validates this?
17. What things did this course
teach you not to do? What things were disappointing or irresponsible
about it then or in hindsight? How would you improve them if
you were in charge with respect to nurturing webstrings and your
goals?
18. How did you and others
evaluate the effectiveness of the course? What documentation
do you have that validates this?
19. How did you and others
evaluate what and how much you learned? What documentation do
you have that validates this?
20. How does this course add
to or support your professional and/or degree goals? What documentation
do you have that validates this?
21. How have you applied the
course material upon course completion? What documentation do
you have that validates this?
22. Have you ever taught the
course material to others? What were the results. What documentation
do you have that validates this occurred?
23. What books or articles
offer additional information about your prior learning that you
cite here?
Section B. Integration Procedures:
For the first 10 hours of non-transcript
prior learning equivalency experience to be considered towards
your degree requirements or waivers, please
1. Creatively and convincingly
write a 200 word summary description of the applicability, contribution
and potential of this life experience with respect to webstrings
and your professional degree goals and deeper ideals. Summarize
and discuss the knowledge acquired, omissions you observe in
it, and the course's application to and real world situations.
2. For every additional 10
hours of non-transcript prior learning equivalency experience
to be transferred and write an additional 25 words describing
its applicability, contribution and potential as in the preceding
paragraph.
3A. summarize the above Integration
Description to 25 words or less and use it to create a link from
an appropriate internet site to the webstrings.org site.
OR
3B Using the material in B
1 and 2 above, write a letter for publication to a newspaper
or influential individual about the value or disappointments
of the experience with respect to webstrings.
4) Write how this experience
positively or negatively plays a role in your present goals,
influences what is presently attractive to you, and how you might
integrate it into your program or your petition for a course
requirement, course, or degree waiver.
Procedures to transfer officially
recognized learning
1. The procedures below refer
to prior Courses and other verified training to be transferred
via transcript or certificate in lieu of degree program courses
or course requirements.
2. For each waiver or transfer,
please respond to Life Experience Section A 1-7 (above) in a
200 word commentary about the relationship, supportive or non
supportive, between this transfer course and Natural Systems
Thinking Process webstring functions.
3. Gather letters of support
to help document you participation and competencies in the skill
area.