Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

1.     Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.

For my second independent component I plan on doing more service learning hours at San Dimas Community Hospital.

2.     Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.

By simply taking more time out of my week to dedicate to going to the hospital I do not see a problem in meeting the additional 30 hours.

3.     How does your independent study component relate to your EQ?   

This independent component study would help with my essential question being that it does have to do with medicine and working in a hospital environment. What better way to gain that type of insight and experience if not volunteering at a hospital and obtaining that kind of firsthand experience with medical professionals and patient environment? Which I why I decided this time around for my independent component 2 I would try do something more hands on as opposed to taking a class at which would surely give me the knowledge but not so much the experience. 

Independent Component 1

1. Literal

-  I, Christine Valdivias, affirm that I completed my independent component, which represents 30 hours of work. 

-  Explanation of what you completed:

I have completed an entire online MIT open courseware course, printing out and completing reviews, study material, problem sets, as well as quizzes.

2. Interpretive

This course helped me in getting a deeper understanding of what it is at the base of this field that I would like to get into in the future. I believe like most people that you cannot enter a field without testing out the waters first and seeing if you truly liked it this course did that for me, it affirmed why it is I am interested in this area of study in the first place.  

3. Applied

This course helped me in giving me a better understanding of the base knowledge I will need to understand to further understand my EQ as a whole. On the surface sure my EQ seems very straight forward but it is the interworkings of contamination and bacteria as well as skills acquired through an extensive education that allow me to answer my eq. In the MIT open courseware for example I learned about the nervous system and stem cells as well as how cancer spreads in the body all aspect that could very well affect an anesthesiologist in a surgical room and present real life complications form them. Knowing this type of basic knowledge allows you to build on it, further understand and grasp concepts that are important, which is why I feel this course was such a tremendous help to my senior topic.  

Independent Component 1 Plan Approval (Revision)

(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.

For my first independent component I plan on completing the course work available online for an Introduction to Biology class from MIT.

(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.

The course work that I have chosen to complete has lectures/course notes/assignments/tests enough material to study that will more than suffice for the 30 hours.

(3) How does your independent study component relate to your EQ?   

Taking a Biology class I feel correlates to my over all senior project of anesthesiology because in order to get any further in the schooling aspect you must have a complete and thorough understanding of the basics and this Biology course covers principles of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology a lot of the basics.

Independent Component 1 Plan Approval

(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.

For my first independent component I plan on taking an automotive mechanics class.

(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.

The classes that I have been looking at would surely suffice in covering the 30 hour requirement.

(3) How does your independent study component relate to your EQ?   

Taking an automotive class would correlate directly to my EQ because I’ am asking what is most important in becoming a successful 4x4 automotive technician, learning the basics would serve as a very important foundation.