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PROFESSIONAL WORK AND LIFE

EXPERIENCE

Developing the Experiential Learning Portfolio

American Sentinel recognizes that students bring tremendous assets to the classroom and understand
that learning is a lifelong activity and that many life learning experiences have a value equivalent to
college-level coursework.
The experiential learning portfolio (ELP) allows students to present the knowledge they have gained
through self-instruction, professional experience, and corporate training to be evaluated for possible
college credit.
Developing an ELP for a course requires considerable effort, as the student must demonstrate that life
learning has provided the equivalent of at least 80 percent of the learning objectives for the course.
Evaluation of credit earned through ELP is available only to enrolled students.
What is Experiential Learning?

Experiential learning includes experiences and training outside of the classroom that may earn you
college credit. Such items include:

• Training received in the workplace, in the military, or via conference;
• Professional certifications;

• Internships;
• Examinations;

• Volunteer work, civic engagement, etc.
Please note that these are non-college experiences and that they have happened outside the realm of
a postsecondary education institution.

Cost

Evaluation of an ELP is an extensive process and requires the time and attention of many. American
Sentinel is committed to making education affordable, and therefore charges a minimal but non-
refundable cost for the ELP evaluation process: $300 for an undergraduate course evaluation and $400
for a graduate course evaluation.

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