EXPL 150 - Life Experience Portfolio Workshop

This course guides students through the process of creating a Life Experience Portfolio (LEP). The LEP is a written product which uses documented evidence to show how significant skills and knowledge gained through professional and personal experience align with course content, allowing students to gain course credit for those experiences. Students engage in the cyclical writing process of brainstorming, organizing ideas, drafting, and revising. Following the completion of the portfolio, students also present their arguments orally to a faculty committee, which determines the credits to be awarded. To be eligible for the LEP process, students must be at least 25 years of age with a minimum of 5 years of full-time work experience. They must have fewer than 64 earned credits and fewer than 32 non-traditional credits counted toward their degree. Credits awarded for the portfolio can range from 0 to a maximum of 24, depending on the nature of the life experiences, the quality of the portfolio, and the credits remaining within the maximum of 64.

Credit(s): 1 to 2
General Education Designations: Written Communication
Offered: most semesters on demand.