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Institute of Global Education
Special
NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council
Project NatureConnect
Michael J.Cohen, Ed.D. Director
International University for Professional
Studies (IUPS)
and affiliated
University programs that parallel IUPS. Credit and tuition
amounts will vary in different programs as will accreditation.
Curriculum at
the IGE Cooperative
Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology
Michael J. Cohen, Lead Faculty
Graduate Student Cooperative Courses, Semesters and Total Program Schedules
NETWORKING: The IGE Graduate Student Cooperative Degree Program is designed to make the Natural Systems Thinking Process webstring science available to you and the public through "we do it together" cooperative functions that lead to reduced costs. Each course and experience enhances you and the Co-op by sharing information and support with a network of Co-op members and their contacts. This practice emulates the web of life and is as much a part of your degree program as is any other part. You obtain credit for it in the ORT 500 course.
NSTP and the IGE Co-op reach their goals and sustain themselves through public support and participation. An excellent means of reaching the public is to find public outlets for work you do. If you write a paper, for example, with little effort it can become a submission to a publication or discussion list somewhere on the internet and/or newspaper, call in radio, etc. Reactions to an activity make a splendid letter to an editor, especially when they provide answers for local problems.
PROCESS: In consultation with IUPS, to increase the benefits of the AE/IE Degree Program, IUPS students take the first 75% of all coursework ( 36 credits) with IUPS faculty member Dr. Michael J. Cohen through the IGE Graduate Student Cooperative. This cooperative education component includes the minimum 16 credits of core courses that are required . The actual number of additional courses you need to take varies because it is based on the number of applicable transfer courses you bring into the program.
Upon satisfactory completion of the 24 credits (MS), 36 credits (Ph.D,) a student in good standing completes the remaining 6-12 credits of their program through the online Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology Department at IUPS. In this component, students continue under the tutalege of Dr. Cohen, IUPS Lead Faculty, throughout the final courses of their Degree program. The comprehensive exams and final thesis, project, or dissertation will be evaluated by a appropriate committees comprised of IUPS Faculty. Tuition is paid directly to IUPS for the concluding 12 credits of courses and services.
Credits are obtained through the official courses offered as well as by transfer courses and prior learning evaluations.
A leave of absence is available with consent.
In the Ph.D program, only 9 credits are usually undertaken in the final semester.
Semesters officially start on the first of January, April, July and October. Students inform the office about starting the semester one month prior to the starting date. In the cooperative component, student's may, with special permission of Dr. Cohen, start their coursework earlier than the semester date as long as they have a support group.
IUPS DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Master of Science (MS): 30 credits
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.): 48 credits
In the IUPS doctoral program, one year minimum of IGE coursework is mandatory. It consists of 36 credits including a minimum of 16 credits of core courses.
In the IUPS Masters program, one year minimum of IGE coursework is mandatory. It consists of 22 credits including a minimum of 16 credits of core courses.
A minimum of 6 credits per semester or maximum of 15 credits (18 with special permission) per semester are required. Each credit represents 45 learning hours.
Before enrolling for a semester, please be sure to follow the suggested course options and sequences listed in the MS and PhD sections below. Be sure to share your draft of your semester course selections with your guide group and others who have experience in the program.
THE PRIOR LEARNING FACTOR
The actual time needed to complete a course depends upon the number of hours of prior learning that you 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 unless otherwise indicated.
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SUMMARY OF IUPS STUDENT TUITION FEES For IUPS students who are building their program within budget reqirements, please note that each individual student has their own, individualized, cost/credit fee assigned to them as determined via the next paragraph: STANDARD: $150/per credit for courses offered, 36 doctoral credits minimum must be taken and paid for at IGE, 36 credits total are required before you take your last 12 credits at IUPS. All fees listed are in US Dollars. This fee is personalized and reduced via work/study contracts and other financial assistance as calculated on the MS tuition form or PhD tuition form. Lower IGE Cooperative waiver, prior learning and transfer fees etc prevail over the listed IUPS fees
DEGREE TOTALS:
MS students may transfer up to 7
credits into the program and all their prior learning that is
applicable to courses where it is acceptable: Tuitions may be reduced by work/study contracts when available. To enroll the student pays for their first semester's 15 credits at their official credit payment fee Payments are made by following the instructions on the payment form. All agreements and understandings are crystalized by the use of contract forms that may be updated as new information appears.
Tuition for continuuing on with the Ph.D. after completing the MS: Students who have completed the Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology IUPS Masters Degree may elect to continue into the AE/IE Doctoral Program under the following tuition and academic requirements or their modification by special permission of the program. 30 additional IUPS University credits
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Masters program announcements and guidelines:
( Ph.D guidelines are found below )
- IUPS Credit costs are $150/credit
at the IGE Cooperative and for IUPS coursework.
- Financial assistance may not be available for the 6 credit
IUPS component of the program.
- The program must be completed in two years. Special petitions
for extra time are considered.
A total of 16 AE/IE core course credits must be taken as part of the Cooperative program and paid for during the first semester to be in good standing in the program. The coursework for these credits may be distributed over three or more semesters. Semesters start in January, April, July, and October. 6-15 credits may be taken each semester.
Courses marked (prior OK) means that you may make a contract/petition to apply prior learning to parts of them.
Enrollment:
Semesters start in January, April, July, and October. 6-15 credits may be taken each semester. 18 credits may be taken with special permission.
A month before a semester begins an enrollment contract containing semester enrollment information is submitted along with payment for the semester and a payment form
Courses :
Courses that are
available to the public may be found at
http://www.pacificrim.net/~nature/courses.html
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On the WWW enter the address http://www.ecopsych.com/ then add a single
course number like so: then add
.html The address.html is listed bold in red below if that address is different that the official course number. Courses in bold blue are core courses of which you must take the minimum of 15 credits that are indicated by a red star* Doctoral Students
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ADVANCED IGE DEGREE COURSES that are components of IUPS courses.
NOTE: IUPS six credit courses that are listed in the IUPS catalog are combinations of Institute of Global Education 2-3 credit courses as listed below.
IUPS ECO504: Psychological Concepts of Global Citizenship (6 credits) includes the following IGE courses:
*ORT 500 /600 Co-op/IUPS Orientation 1 credit eco500ort.html
*ECO 500 Global Citizenship 1 credit
*ECO 508 Natural Attractions (Einstein's World) 1 credit
*ECO 501 Introductory RWN 3 credit
DESCRIPTION: Students discover the ways excessive separation from nature stresses our sensuous inner nature and initiates our personal and global troubles. Students learn to reverse this destructive process by mastering thoughtful, sensory, nature reconnecting, activities that dissolve stress by satisfying our deepest natural loves, wants, and spirit. This hands-on course teaches applicable and lasting leadership, education, counseling, and mental health skills that feelingly tap the "higher power" wisdom of Earth's creation process. The course presents the concepts of the Natural Systems Thinking Process and the Globally Balanced Thinking Score. The interactivity among students and mentor empower students to let nature help them nurture warm interpersonal relationships, wellness, and responsibility on personal and global levels. Students relate the course methods and materials to their fields of interest in order to integrate these areas with the global ecosystem.
IUPS ECO 505: Educating and Counseling with Nature (6 credits) includes the following IGE courses:
*ECO 502 parts I and II WMWE 3 credit .eco502parts.html
*ECO 503 /603 Directed Readings 3 credit (prior OK)
DESCRIPTION: Prerequsite IUPS ECO 504: Students promote personal, social and environmental responsibility by mastering and adapting unique "nature-connecting" hands-on, interactive methods for personal and professional use. Students discover how reconnecting with nature provides information, and serves to reverse personal, cultural and ecological disorders. Students establish and identify a three-person study team with whom they work. They maintain a journal of their participation and prepare a 15 page reflective paper.
IUPS ECO 507: Integrated Ecology (6 credits) includes the following IGE courses:ncludes the following IGE courses:
ECO 504/604 Sensory Knowing & Culture 3 credit (prior OK)
ECO 509 Global History of the Senses 3 credit
DESCRIPTION: Prerequsite IUPS ECO 504: Students experience and examine their present and past acquaintance with 53 natural senses that pervade the natural world and that humanity inherits from nature at birth. For each of these sensitivities they discover their own and contemporary society's history and enculturation of them. In this regard they pursue directed reading from a bibliography in integrated ecology, supplemented by their own library research. Participants explore the literature, maintain journal notations and prepare an annotated bibliography. Students write a scholarly paper that incorporates their collective findings and discusses problems and solutions to important issues in the practice of integrated ecology.
IUPS ECO 508: Integrating Sensory Knowing and Culture (6 credits) includes the following IGE courses:
*ECO 522* /622 Public Relations/Funding 3 credit (prior OK)
*ECO 792: Advanced Readings 3 credits (prior OK).
DESCRIPTION: Prerequsite IUPS ECO 504: Students gather a library of references related to their particular career field or interests that reflect upon the issues relevant to integrated ecology. Students read and discuss the literature with the mentor and other professionals. Students gather a bibliography of literature in their professional field or interest that supports work in integrated ecology and prepare an annotated bibliography. Students will prepare a reflective paper discussing how the literature has informed their understanding of the opportunities for integration of integrated ecology concepts within their career field. For the purpose of engaging people in the Natural Systems Thinking Process, students apply their reading to developing and disseminating to the public information they have gathered in context with their IGE course experiences.
IUPS ECO 506: Facilitating and Student Teaching the Natural Systems Thinking Process.
*ECO 601: Educating and Counseling with Nature I:
Student Teaching and Research (3 credits)
(ECO 501 prerequsite)
*ECO 602: Educating and Counseling with Nature II:
Student Teaching and Research (3 credits)
(ECO 502 prerequsite)
DESCRIPTION: Prerequsite IUPS ECO 504, IUPS ECO 505: Under
the supervision of an experienced mentor and in conjunction with
an online study support group the student learns to promote,
organize, facilitate, teach and evaluate IUPS ECO 504. Reading
and research into the mentoring and facilitating is used to consider
the results of the student teaching experience and to produce
a 15 page scholarly paper that would be of assistance to facilitators
and student teachers.
Additional courses that are available are listed under the MS or Ph.D. requirements below
MASTER'S REQUIREMENTS ( Ph.D guidelines are found below )
6-15 (18) Credits/semester.
Red= Required in
first semester or before the first semester of the program
Core Competencies Required (req) : 16 credits
ORT 500: req Co-op/IUPS Orientation 1 credit
ECO 500: req Global Citizenship 1 credit
ECO 501: req Elements of Educating and Counseling with Nature I (3 credits)
ECO 502: req Elements of Educating and Counseling with Nature II (3 credits)
ECO 503: req Directed Reading in Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology (3 credits) (prior OK)
ECO 504: Integrating Sensory Knowing and Culture (3 credits) (prior OK)
ECO 508 req Natural Attractions and Intelligences (Einstein's World) 1 credit
ECO 509 Global History of the Senses 3 credit
ECO 522 req Public Relations/Funding 3 credit (prior OK)
ECO 800: Certification in Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology (1 ..........//credit) req
Field Studies (Required: 6 credits)
*ECO 751: Field Studies in Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology (6 credits)
*ECO 753: Case Studies in Education and Counseling with Nature (6 credits)
Research Preparation Courses
*ECO541: Participatory Research for Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology (3 credits)
*RES890: Thesis Research (6 credits)
Advanced Studies (Electives)
*ECO 791: Selected Projects in Applied Ecopsychology/ Integrated Ecology (3 credits)
*ECO 792: Advanced Readings in Integrated Ecology (3 credits)
*ECO 793: Selected Topics in Applied Ecopsychology/ Integrated Ecology (3 credits)
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A possible curriculum to complete a two semester MS program ( A three or four semester MS is suggested and preferred with the last semester dedicated to the thesis or project. This schedule assumes you being either a full time student or having much applicable prior learning to apply to courses where permitted )
Second Semester (15 credits)
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LINKS TO INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL
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- Credit costs are $150/credit at
the IGE Cooperative and IUPS Courses.
- Financial assistance may not be available for the final 12
credit IUPS component of the program.
- The program must be completed in three years. Special petitions
for extra time are considered.
A total of 15 AE/IE core course credits must be taken as part of the Cooperative program and paid for during the first semester to be in good standing in the program. The coursework for these credits may be distributed over three or more semesters.
Courses marked (prior OK ) means that you may make a contract/petition to apply prior learning to parts of them.
Enrollment:
Semesters start in January, April, July, and October. 6-15 credits may be taken each semester. 18 credits may be taken with special permission.
A month before any semester begins an enrollment contract containing semester enrollment information is submitted along with payment for the semester and a payment form
PREREQUSITE NOTE:
Doctoral Students are required to have mastered the MS requirements
ECO 500, 508, and 501 before student teaching ECO 601. They must
have completed ECO 502 before student teaching ECO 602. (These
courses may only be taken simultaneously by special permission
and is not advised for the serious student.)
Core Competencies (Required:
15 credits)
ECO 500: Global Citizenship Orientation: The Art and Science of Thinking With Nature (1 Credit) if not taken previously
ECO 508 Natural
Attractions (Einstein's World) (1 credit) if not taken
previously
followed by
*ORT 600: Orientation for the Adult Learner (1 credit)
*ECO 601: Educating and Counseling
with Nature I: Student Teaching and Research (3 credits)
(ECO 501 prerequsite)
*ECO 602: Educating and Counseling
with Nature II: Student Teaching and Research (3 credits)
(ECO 502 prerequsite)
*ECO 603: Exploratory Reading in Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology (3 credits) (prior OK)
*ECO 604: Researching Sensory Knowing and Culture (3 credits) (prior OK)
*ECO 509/609 Global History of the Senses 3 credit (optional if taken previously)
*ECO 622 Public Relations and Fund Raising 3 credit (optional if ECO 522 has been taken previously)
ECO 800: Certification in Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology (1 ..........//credit)
Field Studies (Required: 6 credits -select one)
*ECO 751: Field Studies in Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology (6 credits) (prior OK)
*ECO 752: Externship in Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology (6 credits) (prior OK)
*ECO 753: Case Studies in Education and Counseling with Nature (6 credits) (prior OK)
Research Preparation Courses (Required: 12 credits)
*ECO541: Participatory Research for Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology (3 credits)(prior OK)
*RES990: Dissertation Research (9 credits that make up your total final semester (prior OK)
Advanced Studies (Electives)
*ECO 791: Special Projects in Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology (3 credits) (prior OK)
*ECO 792: Advanced Readings in Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology (3 credits) (prior OK)
*ECO 793: Special Projects in Applied Ecopsychology (3 credits) (prior OK)
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A suggested four semester Ph.D. program (12 credits/semester) ( This schedule assumes you being either a full time student or having much applicable prior learning to apply to courses where permitted ) Optional pre-enrollment MS equivilency work via IGE or elsewhere
First Semester: (12 credits)
Second Semester (12 credits)
Third Semester (12 credits)
Fourth Semester (12 credits)
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LINKS TO INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL
Project NatureConnect
Institute of Global Education
Special NGO consultant
to United Nations Economic and Social Council.
P.O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor
WA 98250
(360) 378-6313
nature@pacificrim.net
www.ecopsych.com
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