Looking Back: Reflection on Prior Learning Experiences

Course Description

Reflection is integral to the learning process, serving as a vital bridge between experience and learning. Looking Back: Reflection on Prior Learning Experiences guides students through the process of developing a reflective practice of their learning and schooling experiences. By introducing critical theories of knowledge, education, and learning, Looking Back encourages students to situate their learning experiences and identities as learners within a fuller philosophical, historical, cultural, and sociological context, analyzing the relationship between education and social institutions and re-evaluating the significance of outsider and experiential learning. Students are called upon to examine their own tacit assumptions about learning and their preconceived notions of what constitutes learning, how learning is acquired, and how that learning is valued - or not valued - in society. Through reflective journals, analytic research, and iterative writing assignments, students will develop two corresponding learning portfolios that document college-level learning gained through life experiences outside of the classroom. Through the learning portfolio students will craft a learning narrative that demonstrates their competency of the selected subject's learning outcomes, as well as their ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and integrate and apply their learning. Students have the option of submitting their learning portfolios to be evaluated for Credit for Prior Learning in the Bachelor of General Studies program. This course is limited to students enrolled in the Bachelor of General Studies program who have successfully earned a minimum of 60 credits.

Code

UC 3001

Credits

3

Subject

UC