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Subject: What this Site Contains
The Educational Planning Resource site is divided into three main sections:
- Educational Planning Workshops
- Planning & Finalizing the Degree
- Sample Degree Plans, Rationale Essays, and Assessment Committee Response Letters--the end results of Educational Planning
Educational Planning Workshops
This section contains a variety of resources that you may use to plan your education in a broad way. Some resources help you assess your academic learning, academic skills, and learning skills. Others help you explore different academic disciplines (e.g., what does it mean to study literature?). Still others help you investigate careers, if you want to change professions or investigate some of the current research in your own profession. You can complete self-assessments in different areas, view educational planning course content in these areas, link to a list of online articles, and see suggestions for using these workshop resources should you and your mentor decide to pursue one or more of these investigations.
Planning & Finalizing the Degree
These resources lead you through the specific things you need to consider in finalizing your degree plan and writing your rationale essay: goals, Empire State College and State University of New York expectations, broader academic and professional expectations for your type of degree, how to structure your degree, how to write the rationale essay explaining your choices.
Samples
This space offers you a look at the end results of educational planning in different ways. 1) You can view sample student degree plans and rationale essays to see the many ways students design their degrees. 2) You can read Assessment Committee response letters to these degree plans and essays. 3) You can listen to (or read a transcript of) a CDL Assessment Committee discussion of student degree plans and rationale essays (used with permission) to get a sense of the types of questions an assessment committee always asks when reviewing degree plans for approval.
Talk with your Mentor about which resources to use--and also feel free to peruse the others!