Your Life Experience May Turn Into Academic Credit!
Below is a partial list of certain types of life experience learning subjects. Consider each subject in which you have experience, and roughly calculate the approximate amount of time you’ve invested in that subject or endeavor. You may find that your achievements thus far are greater than expected!
1. Work
Many of the skills acquired in paid employment are also skills that are taught in colleges and universities. Typing, filing, shorthand, accounting, inventory control, financial management, map reading, military strategy, welding, computer programming/operating, editing, planning, sales, and real estate appraisal are a few of the hundreds of other examples of workforce skills.
2. Church
Many of the skills acquired in positions that you hold in a Church can be very strongly viewed by the Board of Examiners. These include the office of Elder or Deacon, Sunday School Superintendent, Sunday School Teacher, along with many other positions of ministry service.
3. Volunteer Work
Time spent serving in Church and Community activities or service organizations, along with volunteer work in social service agencies or hospitals, may be considered for academic credit.
4. Non-Credit Learning in Formal Settings
These include Church training courses, in-service teacher training, workshops, clinics, conferences and conventions, lectures, online courses, and non-credit correspondence courses.
5. Missions Work
The study of missions includes many avenues and disciplines. These can be geographical courses or studies of the cultures and languages of other nations. It may also include domestic missions service, such as the renovation of inner-city facilities and sheltering or feeding the homeless.
6. Reading, Viewing & Listening
This may cover any field in which a person has done extensive or intensive reading and studying, for which, college credit has not been awarded. This would include individual studies, thesis, dissertation and defensives, and oral classes and education, such as lectures and presentations.
Undergraduate students who qualify may be eligible for “advanced standing” through life experience credit, up to a maximum of 30 semester hours. These credits are available to the undergraduate student only. When applying for Admission, students desiring this advanced standing should state so in their cover letter. All information submitted for life experience credit must be verifiable.
A Graduate student may apply for Life Credits for work performed in a specific field or discipline, provided they have a record of work and specific field of study applicable to the graduate degree being sought. The student must already hold a degree in a recognized college program in order to receive Life Credits.