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SEQUENCE
STEPS (Further
explanation)
Step One:
Familiarize
yourself with the program via its website description. It applies to all
our programs unless otherwise stated. Have a previous required
degree or its equivalence completed or in process via IGE or
elsewhere.
Step Two:
CERTIFICATION
OR
DEGREE PROGRAM
ADMISSION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION AND PROCEDURES
Applicants for these programs in Applied Ecopsychology or
Integrated Ecology may come from any field of interest.
SUMMARY OF
ADMISSION PROCEDURES LISTED BELOW
(Hint: print out the Application Form now and use it as a questionaire)
Have a previous
degree or its equivalence completed or in process.
Read Overview article, review website
Call Dr. Cohen 360-378-7313
Submit Application (it includes a Scholarship Petition if applicable)
If you are accepted join the Student Cooperative and begin the Orientation Course.
NOTE: Be sure to keep a record
of all forms, payments, courses
completed, phone calls made and other administrative transactions.
They may be needed for documentation before you take your comprehensive
exams or receive your Diploma or Certificate.
DETAILS:
PROGRAM SEQUENCE
AND APPLICATION CATEGORIES that appear on the Application Form
As of October,
2002, IGE and its Application Form and procedures for entering
the program in cooperation with any affiliated University, recognizes
and honors the above listed admission categories.
Your application
will usually fall into one of the following categories
( ) TRAINING
CERTIFICATION ($2320) alone (described
above)
*
This program optionally leads into the Certification of Degree
Equivalency described
above or into one of the degree programs describe below
( ) MASTERS
DEGREE ($7-$8,000) Master's level requires the completion of a minimum
of 36 graduate credits as outlined below and a thesis research
project completed in accordance with the University's standards.
*
with Bachelor's completed or ( ) with BA equivalent. (see Bachelor
requirements
page)
( ) without Scholarship
( ) with Scholarship
( ) with Scholarship (and CCP payment plan when
available)
( ) DOCTORAL
DEGREE ($9,500-$11,000) Doctoral level requires the completion of a minimum
of 48 graduate credits beyond the Master's and a dissertation
or project completed.*
( ) with Master's completed
or ( ) with MS equivalent to be submitted during first semester.
( ) without Scholarship
( ) with Scholarship
( ) with Scholarship
*While all
students must complete the credit hour and their project, thesis
or dissertation requirements for graduation, students may may
petition
their
support group and mentors to substitute transfer courses completed
at outside institutions, or documented life experience, for parallel
prescribed course work in the IGE courses. For approval, students
document their strategy and ability to introduce NSTP into these
experiences and courses in order to make these substitutions.
Step Three
2. Call Dr.
Cohen anytime and further explore your goals, including the amount
of scholarship funding you need, if any, and if the program and
you are right for each other. 360-378-6313.
APPLICATION
PROCEDURE
Certificate
Program
After submitting the Application Form form and $740 Application
fee ($640-refundable if not accepted) and being accepted to the
program, you proceed with the program by taking the Orientation
Course using the accompanying textbooks as this produces the
greatest learning and preparation for future use. Again, this
saves $400-600 because it will include book and course costs
that might otherwise be extra.
The Degree
Program Application Form contains a petition for the amount of funding
assistance you will need based on sections 1-8 above. It also
includes a 400 word statement of the attractions you find (things
you were attracted to and why) in the required activities and readings and in visiting the
IGE website. In this statement Tell us why you want to be admitted
to the program and your intentions at this time.
On the Degree
Application form you will find 4 major categories. Utilize the
one that fits you as follows.
1. Standard
Application, no scholarship requested:
Degree Program:
After
submitting theApplication
Form
form and $740 Application fee ($640-refundable) and being accepted
to the program, you proceed with the program upon completing
payment of your first semester or
certificate level.
The Orientation Course is taken using the accompanying textbooks
as this produces the greatest learning and preparation for future
use.
Certificate
Program Alone
After submitting the Application Form form and $740 Application
fee ($640-refundable if not accepted) and being accepted to the
program, you proceed with the program by taking the Orientation
Course using the accompanying textbooks as this produces the
greatest learning and preparation for future use.
2. Degree
Application With Scholarship
After submitting
the application form and a $740 Application fee ($640-refundable
if not accepted) and being accepted to the program, the Orientation
Course is taken. The $740 includes: payment for the Orientation
Course and its books and materials, Application Fees, ECO 503,
ECO 508, and entrance into the Graduate Student Cooperative.
This $740 is payment in part of your total tuition due after
scholarship funds are allocated.
3. Application
with Equivalency Degree Waiver.
Same
as 1 or 2 above except you must be doing well in, or have completed
the Orientation Course before finalizing your application. This
is to assure you and IGE that you have the capacity to do the
coursework at your degree level.
4. ORIENTATION
COURSE INFO: If you want to take the Orientation Course for information
alone or use elsewhere.
Submit
the Orientation
Course Application Form and the appropriate Application fee (non-refundable).
Course Accreditation, optional, is an additional $42
Course without
optional study materials $35
Course with optional study materials $55-$125
Email and postal
mail the Degree program and Application Form which includes
the Scholarship Application.
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B. COOPERATIVE PARTICIPATION
AFTER ADMISSION
Once you are
accepted into the program you will receive and complete an IGE
Graduate Student Cooperative Contract form. Complete the Student
Cooperative application and submit it along with your first semester's
minimum tuition payment. Await your email address for the Professional
Group of Past Students and your assignment to your Graduate Student
Cooperative
support and study group This latter group will help you set up
your personal web page and intergroup communication addresses.
From this point on, most questions about your program should
first be directed to your study group. If you find answers to
them elsewhere, share these answers with the group to increase
its ability to help others in this regard. It will connect you
with the Cooperative and two email forms that you will use throughout
your program:
Payment Contract
Form
Course/Schedule/Project petition and contract form.
C. ORIENTATION COURSE
Schedule yourself into a section of the Orientation
Course
via the Orientation
Course Application. Begin with the Prerequisites and Course Instructions
at your earliest convenience as you will help guide the course.
This is fundamental as it pertains to all your course work and
relationships in the IGE program. This course precedes any other
IGE course you take. It may also have non-degree program participants
taking it with you.
NOTE: At this time you will
be welcomed into four different email mailing lists. Try not
to get them confused with each other. Each is for a group that
helps you cooperatively operate in, and supports, a specific
part of the total program as follows:
1. Your
personal guide/mentor/support group
of about six students and faculty that help answer and find
answers to questions. They also peer review and approve your
schedule and coursework, and you their's, including assigning
grades to papers or projects. Use the Petition Contract Form
with this group.
From this point on, most questions about your program should
first be directed to your study group. If you find answers to
them elsewhere, share these answers with the group to increase
its ability to help others in this regard.
2. The GWSG
Graduate Student Cooperative
consisting of all the faculty and students presently active
in the program. Newsletter, updates and formation of course study
groups takes place through this list.
3. The Professional
NatureConnect List
that includes the GWSG list (2) as well as all program graduates
and other professionals who are using NSTP and helping to support
and guide the program.
4. Your
Orientation Course affinity group.
These are the 4-6 students who are taking the Orientation
Course with you. Once this course is completed this list membership
may change as you take additional courses with other students.
5. An optional
discussion group list is also available
Step Three:
Complete the
Orientation Course and your Degree/Certificate Application including
your first semester or certificate level tuition payment if you have not already done so. Use
the Payment
Contract form
for all tuition payments when possible.
Upon completion
of the Orientation Course you will have experienced the tool
and core process, tone and spirit of the degree and certification
programs at IGE. As demonstrated by past degree recipients, by
participating in the IGE program and courses as you did on the
Orientation Course, you will continue to enjoy and learn from
the high road and quality that leads to successful completion
of your degree and professional future.
Make arrangements
to Co-Facilitate the Orientation Course as part of your training
and requirements in the ECO 501 course that follows the course.
Work out your
first semester course schedule and before committing to each
semester or new course first get suggestions and approval for
it from your support group (1). 9. Read, or have read, the the
Certificate, and Master's or Doctoral program descriptions.
Share your degree program plans with course members and obtain
approval and evaluation from the Orientation Course participants
and facilitator for you to continue with the degree program.
Follow Tuition Information for details
about remaining tuition payments.
If you carefully
study and follow these steps , get approval from your cooperative
support group for each one before you take a step, and document
what you have done once you finish it, you will successfully
and enjoyably complete your program
11. The Prior
Learning factor: The actual time needed to complete a course
depends upon the number of hours of prior learning that you want
to bring into a course. To integrate each prior learning petition
contract,
in a three page paper, you explain how and why you would apply
NSTP to that specific learning and describe one or more examples
of where you did this and its results.
Prior learning
may not be applied to core courses with the exception of ECO
503, ECO 504, ECO 522.Over time, with your study group and mentor's
approval identify which, if any, previous experiences you want
to substitute for some of your course work in courses that permit
substitutions (see MS or Ph.D courses). The pages below will
be helpful in this regard. Be sure that you are sure you know
how to introduce NSTP into these situations as that is how you
will be representing yourself to the evaluator of your comprehensive
exams, your thesis or dissertation committee and the public.