Academic Plan
My academic plan for the 2018-2019 year will focus on completing the final 15.0 credits (five half courses) for my honours major in Philosophy. The majority of my program and credits were completed while I was a student in residence for almost three years at Queen's, from September 2014 through December 2016. I fell seriously ill at the end of the winter term of 2016-17, due to complications from my Queens experiential learning course in Cuba and was required to return home to London, Ontario in December. Following a stabilization period, I completed credits from my home in London with the approval of the Dean's Office: first my medically-deferred Queen's 2016 exams, and then additional credits through Queen's distance studies, and at Western University as a visiting student on a Queen's Letter of Permission. As I am not medically able to take up residence in Kingston due to my ongoing health issues, and since Queen's does not offer the senior philosophy courses I require on-line, it is my hope to receive permission to complete the final credits of my Queen's degree in London. With this permission, I could finish earning my Queen's degree and graduate as early as the spring of 2019.
This past Winter 2018 semester, in addition to 3.0 Queen's online credits, I completed 6.0 Philosophy credits as a visiting student at Western University. My combined overall term average was 90, which is consistent with my academic achievement at Queen's prior to falling ill. The final Queen's acknowledgment of the six earned Western credits is still pending, but my 2018-2019 academic plan has been created under the presumption that these credits will transfer appropriately as they were undertaken with permission from both institutions.
Each of the remaining courses that I plan to take will be directly related to the remaining requirements for my Queen's honours major in Philosophy. I will need to complete 15 credits (3.0 PHIL400, 9.0 PHIL300, and 3.0 PHIL200). I have sought out well-regarded senior faculty members at Western who offer the courses I require, and have found that taking a reduced course load has allowed me to continue to be a successful student while managing my health requirements. I plan to continue to take a reduced course load, by taking 9.0 and 6.0 in each semester. Some of the potential courses that I intend to take at Western University in the Fall 2018 term are: Phil 2700F/G : Introduction to Ethics and Value Theory, Phil 3070F/G : Augustine, and Phil 4094F/G : Contemporary Continental Social and Political Thought. This strategy of a reduced course load, proximity to my health supports and registration with disability studies will ensure my academic progress and allow me to achieve my long-held hope to graduate from Queen's University.
This past Winter 2018 semester, in addition to 3.0 Queen's online credits, I completed 6.0 Philosophy credits as a visiting student at Western University. My combined overall term average was 90, which is consistent with my academic achievement at Queen's prior to falling ill. The final Queen's acknowledgment of the six earned Western credits is still pending, but my 2018-2019 academic plan has been created under the presumption that these credits will transfer appropriately as they were undertaken with permission from both institutions.
Each of the remaining courses that I plan to take will be directly related to the remaining requirements for my Queen's honours major in Philosophy. I will need to complete 15 credits (3.0 PHIL400, 9.0 PHIL300, and 3.0 PHIL200). I have sought out well-regarded senior faculty members at Western who offer the courses I require, and have found that taking a reduced course load has allowed me to continue to be a successful student while managing my health requirements. I plan to continue to take a reduced course load, by taking 9.0 and 6.0 in each semester. Some of the potential courses that I intend to take at Western University in the Fall 2018 term are: Phil 2700F/G : Introduction to Ethics and Value Theory, Phil 3070F/G : Augustine, and Phil 4094F/G : Contemporary Continental Social and Political Thought. This strategy of a reduced course load, proximity to my health supports and registration with disability studies will ensure my academic progress and allow me to achieve my long-held hope to graduate from Queen's University.