CREDIT FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

You can earn Life Experience credits by:

Transferring credit earned at other colleges or universities
Transferring credit from workplace courses
Transferring credits earned for professional licenses and certificates
Demonstrating life experience through a prior learning assessment

The College may grant academic credit for prior experiential learning as follows:

Up to 60 units out of the 180 total units awarded to a student in an undergraduate program may be awarded for experiential learning.

To qualify for the prior experiential learning credit, the following conditions must be met:

The prior learning is equivalent to a college or university level of learning.
The learning experience demonstrates a balance between theory and practice.
The credit awarded for the prior learning experience directly relates to the student’s degree program and is applied towards satisfaction of certain degree requirements.
Learning experience for which credit is sought must be documented.