MAP Colloquium Make-Up Options

MAP Residency Attendance Requirements

Residential Options to Make-Up for a Colloquium Absence

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Criteria for Proposing a New Make-Up Event

Process for Attending an Approved Make-Up Event

MAP Residency Attendance Requirements

The Prescott College Master of Arts Program has the following requirements for residency attendance and participation: All enrolled students (fulltime and part-time) must attend two colloquia each semester as the residential requirement for the Master of Arts Program. As of fall 2007 an interim policy has been created for students enrolled in their second semester at 6 or 7 credits only; these students only may choose to attend only one colloquium in Prescott during that halftime term and any subsequent halftime terms.

Front Range Residencies

In addition to the residencies that are held each term in Prescott Arizona, at times there are regular MAP site-based residencies that take place outside of Prescott. These events are arranged by the MAP faculty wherever there is a large bio-regional hub of students, advisors, and MAP faculty. Currently the only regular site-based bio-regional residencies are those that take place in the Boulder Colorado area. More information on the Colorado Front Range site based residencies is available here.

Absences

A student in MAP may miss a colloquium, resulting in either an Approved Absence—a missed colloquium due to a practicum-, work-, or family-related scheduling conflict—or an Unapproved Absence—multiple absences for "approved" reasons or something such as a family wedding or a travel conflict due to transportation or financial issues. The student must notify her or his graduate advisor and CF of any absence (which will either be approved or unapproved) and then must submit written notification to their MAP advising assistant including the reason for the needed absence and noting whether the advisor and CF have given approval for the absence or it is an unapproved absence.

In the event of an approved absence the student will be required to determine with her or his advisor some work that can compensate for the one missed colloquium. An advisor might request of the student a paper on a topic that was discussed at the colloquium or a reflection paper on a conference similar to the reflection paper required after each colloquium. An unapproved absence will require attendance at a make-up colloquium in Prescott prior to graduation or other extensive make-up work approved by the advisor and the core faculty, such as a presentation by the student at a national conference.

Residential Options to Make-Up for a Colloquium Absence

Students may propose any event as make-up for an approved or unapproved absence. It is expected that the make-up choice a student proposes will include the following: the full participation of the student, the kind of interdisciplinary networking that occurs at a colloquium in Prescott, and a scholarly experience that the student and faculty agree is relevant to the student's learning/field.

Program Council Approved Options

The following events, which are sponsored bya member of the MAP faculty and involve specific attendance requirements, have been pre-approved by the Graduate Program Council as appropriate make-up work for an approved or unapproved absence. Students must still obtain confirmation from their advisor and core faculty that the specific event will serve the student's learning. One of these events can serve as make up for a missed Prescott colloquium. (This is an option only after a student's first semester.) All students must attend one colloquium in Prescott each semester in order to receive credit for the semester.

Criteria for Proposing a New Make-Up Event

The Graduate Program Council-approved events listed above were each proposed by a member of the MAP faculty. New events can be proposed at any time. A member of the MAP faculty (one of the regular or associate faculty) must propose, sponsor, and be in attendance at the event.

There are specific criteria about these events and what takes place at them involving the MAP community that allows for them to count as pre-approved make-up work for a missed colloquium. The sponsoring MAP faculty takes responsibility for organizing and arranging these events, getting out information and announcements, signing up students, and so on. Any MAP student or advisor may propose to their core faculty an event to be considered, but a member of the MAP faculty must take this on, propose it to the Graduate Program Council, do the organizing, and ensure that the criteria for such events are met.

Criteria for Proposing the Event:

• Events can be proposed by any member of the MAP faculty to the Graduate Program Council. Any proposed event must have a member of the MAP faculty as the sponsor. Any student or advisor may propose an event to their core faculty, who can choose to sponsor and propose the event to the Graduate Program Council.
• There should be a minimum of 4 students (6-10 is an optimal number) as well as one or more member of the MAP faculty (regular or associate faculty).
• The event should have a minimum of two full working days of academic activities in order to approximate the amount of time generally spent in learning activities at a colloquium in Prescott.
• The experience must be interdisciplinary; if the event is discipline specific a student may still propose to her CF and advisor how this would add to her interdisciplinary learning.
• Faculty wanting to propose an event that does not meet one or more of the criteria may submit the proposal to the Graduate Program Council and explain how the missing criteria will be addressed.
• We ask for as much lead time as possible--we will post them on this page as soon as we are aware of them.

Criteria During the Event:

(These criteria can be met in any way that is agreed on by the sponsoring MAP faculty member and participating students--MAP has kept them broad/vague to allow for as much flexibility as possible.)

• There must be some common scholarly event(s) that are attended as a group (as little as one plenary session or as much as an entire event or series of events).
• If someone from the MAP community is presenting at the conference or event, that presentation should be required attendance by all MAP participants (as much as is reasonable based on the overall schedule).
• There must be a minimum of one informal meeting that is attended by only the MAP students to create the kind of socializing and networking interaction that is found in opening/closing circles.
• There must be a minimum of one formal meeting between students and the sponsoring MAP faculty member that centers on an academic interdisciplinary conversation about the sessions that are attended by all and the overall event.

Process for Attending an Approved Make-Up Event

Students must meet the regular MAP residency requirements (noted above as well as in the MAP Student Handbook). Students can attend one of these events as make-up work for one approved or unapproved colloquium absence. One approved make-up event can serve as a substitute for any one colloquium in Prescott after a student's first semester--it is required in all cases that all enrolled students must still attend one colloquium in Prescott each semester.

• Any student who wants to choose one of these events as make up work for a colloquium absence must write a brief explanation of how this will add to her learning and submit to her advisor and core faculty.
• If the event is discipline specific a student may still propose to her CF and advisor how this would add to her interdisciplinary learning--if it does it can be approved.
• Attendance at one of these events as make up for a missed colloquium requires the regular colloquium narrative form with approved or unapproved absence checked, a log of sessions that were attended (if relevant), and the reflective essay.
• Advisors are encouraged to attend these events as you would any conference. Please note that Prescott College cannot reimburse any travel or other costs for graduate advisors (as we can for attendance at Prescott colloquia).

Last updated July 14, 2008.