Abstract:
This is an undergraduate thesis focusing on the evaluating the practicum as a means
of studying the proper synthesis of informal education (off-campus education) with the formal
education (schooling) based on the feedback given by the graduates of the Development Studies
Program who have taken the Practicum before graduating from the course. This research
analyzes the feedback of the respondents concerning their community, their work as students,
their person experiences and their feedback on the program itself which includes their
recommendation to the course. This is a reading for those who wish to understand and know
about the practicum from the viewpoint of the students who have completed it as well as find out
how well was the practicum for them. For most of the respondents the Practicum has been given
positive review's. For them the difficulty' has not been significantly difficult though the
unfamiliarity has caused varied difficulty for others. The most common recommendation that the
students wish was for the Practicum to be more varied as well as provide the student more
choosing power as w ell as include the opportunity to work in a company in the form of an OJT.
Still for the better part, most of the respondents have become more pro-masses, pro-poor and
pro-justice and live this out in their professional lives wherever they may be.
