handbook

=Student Handbook= =Critical & Creative Thinking Program=

Table of Contents
The information in this handbook updates and supplements the latest Graduate Bulletin entry for CCT. It is arranged in an order that takes you through the sequence of issues you may have from when you are first interested in the program to when you are ready to complete your studies. If you are reading a printed version of this handbook there will be some slightly mysterious text that indicates links on the web-version to material located elsewhere in the handbook.  http://www.cct.umb.edu/sitemap.html 
 * Overview of Program**

Joining the CCT Program
 > * Master of Arts, with specialty areas in: >> Moral Education | Literature and Arts | Mathematics, Science, and Technology (including Sub-specialities in Science in Society | Environment, Science, and Society) | Workplace and Organizational Change | Individually designed Concentrations > * Graduate Certificate, which accommodates general studies as well as the following targetted themes or foci: >> Creative Thinking at Work | >> Science in a Changing World | >> Gifted and Talented Education
 * Welcome letter to new or prospective students
 * Programs of Study

> resources.html | resources.html (ID, online grades, email, etc.) | resources.html
 * Students may begin with the certificate and apply to transfer later to the Master's program, or vice versa.
 * [|Taking single courses before applying or matriculating]
 * Application Procedures, Info, Tuition & Fees
 * Resources and Assistance:
 * Notes for Newly Admitted Students

directory.html for CCT Community Directory | newadmitinfo.html | newadmitinfo.html | transfercredit.pdf"Transfer Credit Approval Form for graduate courses taken elsewhere or at UMB before matriculating
 * newadmitinfo.html |


 * Profiles of CCT Faculty (with rooms & office hours)
 * Program Coordinator
 * Program Ofice mailto:cct@umb.edu"cct@umb.edu, Wheatley Hall, Second Floor, Room 143-09, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125-3393 ( Directions)

Moving along through the programs of study
> Summer 2008| Fall 2008 | Winter/Spring 2009 > [[futureyears|Future offerings of courses (provisional)
 * Course planning, including worksheet for students to submit.
 * Course Descriptions, Foundation Courses, Electives, and final Required Courses (with syllabi linked to website)
 * Scheduled course offerings

Program Fee form for students to keep their file active in semesters when they are taking a course
 * Research and Study Competencies to develop before the final Required Courses
 * Academic Policies and Procedures (on leave, incompletes, etc.)
 * Options and rationale for pre-capstone courses and capstone synthesis.
 * Forms and information related to the steps involved in synthesis projects
 * Graduation
 * Reflecting on Your Developing Practice (during the program and at the end)
 * The Rs of the CCT experience
 * Exit self-assessment
 * Forms

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