Alright y'all, I need your help

[gradygirl]

So my friend and I are building a case to present to the Curriculum Committee at school. Our case is to allow us and a few others to take a paramedicine course at a nearby community college and count the training as our academic minor. So far, we've gotten full support from everyone we've talked to.

Here's what I ask of everyone, please come up with as many positives and negatives to this proposal as you can possibly think of. We want to cover all of the bases before presenting anything to the Committee. Thanks!

 

[Guardian]

great idea! I have to study for an advanced statistics test right now but hopefully I can come up with some ideas later...

 

[Ridryder911]

What is your major? Most schools will automatically allow you to use them as electives. However; since most EMS classes are not rated above a 300 or 400 level course, it will be difficult to near impossible to replace these level of courses.

Hopefully, you have already discussed this with the Division Chairperson for equivocal review to see if the content and duration meets the standards. Remember most EMS texts is written at a 8'th to 10'th grade reading level, and thus may not meet the educational requirement, unless there were supplemental textbooks and courses.

Good luck,
R/r 911

 

[MMiz]

Rid took care of what I had to say.

Most schools will allow you to use the courses as your electives, but because they aren't 300-400 level courses, it will be hard to use them towards the higher level courses of a major/minor.

I had my university review my EMS credits and other credits to see if they'd accept them as higher level credits. After reviewing my textbook, course outline, and other materials, there was unanimous agreement that the EMT program was not a higher level course.

 

[gradygirl]

Matt and Rid, great points. Fortunately, we have a little leverage in terms of EMT classes. The -B class that many of us take can be counted as an internship credit. Also, many of the existing interdisciplinary minors offered at school can be based on multiple 100 to 200 courses. Not to mention that we are not seeking this program to count as part of our major, but rather as a "interdepartmental" (well, we don't actually have an EMS Education dept.) minor, where all of the courses are from the same "group." Here's the layout for the course.

And Rid, I am majoring in psychology, with a concentration in neuroscience and the health field. Also, the way our school does things in incredibly different from many/most other schools. Being that we are strictly liberal arts, our Curriculum Committee decided that we only have 5 required college courses (ensuring that we do, indeed, have that liberal arts education.) However, my major, as are most, is highly structured, laying out specific ground work as how the classes are set up, etc., etc.

 

[c-spine]

A negative that your school will be looking at is cost. It's going to cost them to send you through, and will they have the money in their budget?

A plus - higher trained staff to be EMS personnel at the school.