Your Rationale: Use the description of the course listed in the UIS catalog, and be sure to add your rationale for including the course in your degree proposal. As stated above, if you are taking an independent study course or tutorial, describe the emphasis of your study. Your rationale ought to mention at least three things: first, it ought to discuss how you think a course will help you address your learning needs. Which of your learning needs do you expect this course will address? Second, you ought to mention how the course fits into your degree plan. Is it an ECCE course, a liberal studies elective? Which Boyer categories will it help you address? Third, you ought to describe your personal motivation in hoping to take a specific course. Especially, you should try to relate each course to some sorts of questions you have about reality. What issues or questions do you hope a course will help you answer? What makes you interested in a particular course? What do you personally hope you will be able to do, or will know about, after you have successfully completed the course? Number of credit hours: Include the number of credit hours for each of the courses that you will be taking. Boyer categories assigned: Which Boyer category does each class address? Remember, you need 3 hours of upper-division credit in each of the seven Boyer categories. Course purpose: Describe the purpose of each course you include in your degree plan: ECCE; LIS program requirements; LIS Boyer elective; minor requirements (where applicable); and if you have general education deficiencies these must be accounted for in your degree proposal.
Your Rationale: Use the description of the course listed in the UIS catalog, and be sure to add your rationale for including the course in your degree proposal. As stated above, if you are taking an independent study course or tutorial, describe the emphasis of your study. Your rationale ought to mention at least three things: first, it ought to discuss how you think a course will help you address your learning needs. Which of your learning needs do you expect this course will address? Second, you ought to mention how the course fits into your degree plan. Is it an ECCE course, a liberal studies elective? Which Boyer categories will it help you address? Third, you ought to describe your personal motivation in hoping to take a specific course. Especially, you should try to relate each course to some sorts of questions you have about reality. What issues or questions do you hope a course will help you answer? What makes you interested in a particular course? What do you personally hope you will be able to do, or will know about, after you have successfully completed the course? Number of credit hours: Include the number of credit hours for each of the courses that you will be taking. Boyer categories assigned: Which Boyer category does each class address? Remember, you need 3 hours of upper-division credit in each of the seven Boyer categories. Course purpose: Describe the purpose of each course you include in your degree plan: ECCE; LIS program requirements; LIS Boyer elective; minor requirements (where applicable); and if you have general education deficiencies these must be accounted for in your degree proposal.