Practicum is a bad course and a waste of time
I just completed my practicum and logged in to see I was given a grade of a C. Prior to this course, I had a 4.0. I have also been given notice of an academic warning. It seems ridiculous to me that the practicum in its current format has ever been approved for this program. I completed an undergraduate capstone program as well at Tech and it was by far more professional and engaging. I submitted a midterm and final report for the Practicum and that is my entire grade and the entire involvement for the credit hour equivalent of two courses. I received no feedback beyond “add pictures. The Practicum has no structure. It’s bloated in credit hours. There is no feedback structure, no real method of continued engagement with staff (beyond like three offices hours the entire semester). For gods sake, you do not get any idea of what your grade is until grades are posted and the CIOS is closed. There’s zero room for learning how to do better until it is too late. It feels like zero effort was put into the development of the Practicum program. How did this get approved. I hated DVA but even DVA is a better capstone oriented program than Practicum. DVA has requirements, it has milestones, it has actual check ins from staff. I just paid $2000 to have my GPA drop and be told I’m bad when I had a 4.0 before.