Overview: Journal activities in this course are private between you and your instructor. Journal activities are designed to help you make meaningful connections between the course content and the larger goals of this course. While a certain level of informality is permitted, proper grammar, spelling, and APA citations are required. Your journal post should reflect academic rigor.

Journals in this course are graded individually.

For the journal entries in this course, you will be relating course concepts to your own personal experiences, sharing personal opinions and viewpoints, and

engaging with course concepts and materials at a deeper, more reflective level. Approach these activities as (a) an opportunity to reflect upon and apply what

you learn each week, and (b) an opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise based on your educational and professional experiences in the past.

Prompt: For each journal entry, the following critical elements must be met:

• Fulfills all requirements in the individual prompt
• Provides relevant application of course concepts
• Supports ideas and observations with examples from personal or professional situations

Guidelines for Submission: Each journal entry should be 1 to 2 paragraphs in length and should be submitted as a Word document.