Trevecca recognizes the validity of prior learning and provides
opportunity for students to receive academic credit for college-level
learning from experience, professional schools, or training. Up
to 32 semester hours of academic credits for a BA or BS degree and 15
semester hours for an AA or AS degree are allowable with proper
validation and approval. Such credit will be awarded only after
12 semester hours have been completed at TNU. Post-baccalaureate
students may earn up to 6 hours of PLC credit after they have completed
8 regular hours of academic credit. This program is administered
through the Office of Academic Support.
PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS and TRAINING
For those students who want to receive credit for formal training,
the evaluation of this training is done according to one of two
methods:
I. ACE Guide – The training has been evaluated by the American Council of Education for academic credit.
Cost: $10 per credit hour earned
II.
Faculty Evaluated - The student prepares a package of information for
submission to the faculty evaluator. The package must include the
following:
1. Official verification of successful completion of the training
2. Official verification of the hours spent in training and inclusive dates of attendance
3. Official verification of the course content and course description
4. Articulation of the learning outcomes
Cost: $50 evaluation fee
$10 per credit hour earned
LIFE LEARNING PAPER - 15-20 page paper that expresses college-level learning
This paper must be written according to Kolb’s Model, which builds on the relationship between learning and experience.
KOLB’S MODEL
Step
A – Concrete Experience – The student’s experience. This part is a
description of the actual experience. What happened? When did it
happen? Where did it happen?
Step B – Observation/Reflection –
The student “steps back” from the experience, observes it, and reflects
on it. This action might involve noticing similarities or differences,
patterns or results of certain actions.
Step C – Abstract
Concepts – Based on the observations and reflections, the individual
makes a generalization or formulates a principle about what was
observed.
Step D – Active Experimentation – The individual goes
on to apply this principle of generalization to see if it holds true.
This application leads to new concrete experience. The individual makes
new observations and reflections, and based on them, he or
she formulates or refines the principle and again applies it.
Cost:
$50 evaluation fee
$10 per credit hour earned
