Prior Learning

Prior learning must be relevant to the student’s field of study and must represent graduate-level learning acquired after the student obtained a bachelor's degree and prior to enrollment into the ILPS Department. A maximum of 8 quarter credits of prior learning may be applied toward the degree.

Prior learning credit may be earned from successfully completing graduate courses with a B- or better from regionally accredited schools, from experiential learning, or from a combination of the two.

During the development of the individualized curriculum, in consultation with the committee and the faculty advisor, the student should decide whether or not to include prior learning. An important factor is the advisability of investing time, money, and energy into the documentation and evaluation of prior learning.

Students design a course syllabus for all prior learning credit. The student submits narrative evaluations and the relevant documentation of learning with the draft individualized curriculum to the committee and faculty advisor.

The faculty advisor (or designee) evaluates all prior learning before the individualized curriculum can be approved in final form. Credit is awarded at the time of approval of the student’s individualized curriculum.

Guidelines for earning credit for prior learning:

Transfer Credit is work completed at a regionally accredited institution of higher learning, usually documented in the form of an official transcript. (Work done outside the United States will sometimes have other forms of documentation. If documentation is in a language other than English, a certified translation of the document is required ) Documentation of potential graduate transfer credits is submitted to Antioch during the admissions process. Only courses with a passing grade of B- or better, or satisfactory evaluations from institutions that do not give letter grades, may transfer as prior learning credit. The student must also provide to Antioch a completed prior learning form, which includes a brief self-assessment of the transcripted work.

NOTE: Prior learning credit is awarded when the individualized curriculum is approved, not during the admissions process.

Semester credits convert to quarter credits by multiplying the credits earned by 1.5. For example, 3 semester credits are worth 4.5 quarter credits.

Experiential Learning credit may be granted to a student for learning that took place outside a formal educational setting but is comparable to graduate-level course work. Students develop a syllabus that reflects the learning gained through experience.

Prior learning is recorded through the development of a syllabus, presentation of documents that demonstrate the depth and breath of the learning acquired, and a student self-evaluation of his or her learning.

 

 

 

 

 

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