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LRN 305
Prior Learning Assessment Seminar
This six-credit Web-enhanced PLA Seminar provides instruction for developing Prior Learning Assessment submissions (essays and documentation). Students learn key ideas about learning from experience, including ways of knowing, the role of reflection in turning experience into learning and how to consider their experiential learning within an academic framework.
Through in-class activities, peer critique and feedback from the instructor over a 10-week period, students learn how to reflect upon, describe, analyze and document their prior learning. Writing, analytical and organizational skills necessary for the successful completion of PLA submissions are addressed. By the end of the term, students will have drafted, critiqued, revised and submitted for evaluation their first three essays for a minimum of nine credits. Additionally, students develop a plan for the remainder of their PLA submissions.
LRN 305 Pre-Assignment
Students complete a preassignment before the first class.
- Review the evaluation form received at the conclusion of LRN 150 along with the Educational Degree Plan (EDP) that you and your academic advisor put together.
- Identify at least four potential courses for the essay development process.
- Email your instructor the preliminary list. Your instructor will gain your academic advisor's approval to ensure the proposed PLA credits will have a place in your degree plan.