Combination of Education and Experience for Community Planner

In order to qualify based on a combination of education and experience, the applicant must possess a core of educational credit, such as described in the questions above, plus additional education and/or experience. This core of educational credit must include

• courses equivalent to a major in one of the disciplines listed in Questions 1 and 2, or
• at least 24 semester hours in a combination of the disciplines listed in Question 1 and 2 when at least 12 semester hours were in the planning process and the socioeconomic and physical elements of planning.

The quality of the combination of education and experience must be sufficient to demonstrate that the applicant possesses the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform work in the occupation, and is comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of a full 4-year course of study with a major in the appropriate field. In addition to courses in the major and related fields, a typical college degree would have included courses that involved analysis, writing, critical thinking, research, etc. These courses would have provided an applicant with skills and abilities sufficient to perform progressively more responsible work in the occupation. Therefore, creditable experience should have demonstrated similarly appropriate skills or abilities needed to perform the work of the occupation.