Credit for Life Experience
Limited-Residency Undergraduate Programs
A great deal of academically meaningful learning occurs outside of the classroom, in professional work or in structured workshops, seminars, and training. Because many students who enroll in the Limited-Residency Undergraduate Programs have already devoted a great deal of time to learning outside of the classroom, Prescott College has established a path for adult learners to earn college credit through the mechanism of Life Experience Documentation.
Students who seek academic credit for life experience enroll in a preparatory course that teaches them how to properly document their prior learning in one of three types of portfolios:
- Conversion Portfolio
- Life-Experience Portfolio
- Practicum
Completion of a portfolio is writing intensive and requires the integration of theoretical and practical knowledge in coherent chapters that observe the editorial style of the American Psychological Association (APA) or the Modern Language Association (MLA). All portfolios are evaluated by experts in the student's field of study.
