How to Pursue Credit through Individualized Credit Requests
There are two ways of working on individualized credit requests.
Work with your Mentor/Advisor
Work with your mentor/advisor to identify topics of knowledge for credit request and draft and finalize those requests. Working with your mentor/advisor may happen when you do a course called Educational Planning if that course is required for your degree. If not, then you may still work with your mentor/advisor to pursue credit through individualized credit requests.
The following videos offer interviews with faculty mentors/advisors who work with students to discuss potential areas to pursue for credit through Empire’s credit for prior learning process.
Please note that the term “prior learning assessment” is synonymous with “credit for prior learning.”
Take a course on Prior Learning
Take an online course devoted to learning about experiential learning and creating credit requests: EDPL 2005 Prior Learning Assessment. You should have three topics for credit requests in order to take this class, since those three topics comprise much of the course work of the class.
The following link leads to a narrated PPT that provides a quick overview of the online EDPL 2005 Prior Learning Assessment course.
Overview of EDPL 2005 Prior Learning Assessment
The following link explains more about the EDPL 2005 Prior Learning Assessment course.
Narrated PowerPoint:
Course Overview EDPL Prior Learning Assessment
No matter how you decide to work on creating iCPL credit requests for your experiential learning, you always have to discuss your ideas with your mentor/advisor. They are the ones who have access to your files and can help you decide what credit request areas will work within the context of your degree.
