BIO 655: Master Plan in Action
Fall 2024 Elective W+ Course
In-Person Dates: 5/22, 6/1, 7/22
Location: Bronx Zoo
Note: All dates are required.
Required Summer #2 – 1 credit, Pass/Fail
The AIP Master Plan (MP) represents a student’s ideas and areas of interest as those ideas relate to the student’s professional and community goals. By writing a Master Plan, students are able to focus their AIP journey and visualize the actions and steps that they might take toward completing their master’s degree. During this course, with guidance and input from peers and the AIP Cohort advisors, students work on completing their Master Plans. This method ensures that students have a workable plan that helps them anticipate ways to incorporate the projects they create as part of their AIP experiences into their professional and life goals. Students will also think about the common threads and program tenets which tie together the projects in their AIP journey, and that ultimately becomes their final master’s ePortfolio -- the culminating experience at the end of their degree. This is a Miami University online course with experiential learning on-site at an affiliated Dragonfly Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) institution.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Develop and expand a focused plan or strategy that includes a timeline for conducting anticipated projects
- Examine, critique, and apply relevant research methodologies
- Conduct critical peer-review of colleague’s work
- Use networking and outreach to elevate the outcomes of the Master Plan
- Begin developing a cohesive body of work for inclusion in ePortfolio