Introduce yourself to your peers by sharing something unique about your background. Explain how you expect this course will help you move forward in your current or future career.

At some point during your professional or personal life, you've probably planned an event. This may have been a birthday party, graduation, or a training or introduction to a new system or process at work. Program and curriculum planning uses similar methods and processes. Chapter $1$ of the text discusses the conventional$/$traditional approach to program planning and the pragmatic$/$practical approach.

Recall a time where you were a planner for a professional or personal event$/$program$.$ Describe if your planning approach was closer to the convention$/$traditional approach or to the pragmatic$/$practical approach and why you went with that approach.