Active Learning Experience

The Active Learning Experience (ALE) is an opportunity for students to explore interconnections among various venues for learning—courses, labor, service, research, internships, etc. All ALEs must include: a) learning through sustained, continual engagement in, reflection on, and assessment of experiences; b) the use of knowledge, imagination, and judgment to address questions in novel contexts; and c) the exploration of connections between theory and practice, and between learning in courses and from experiences outside the classroom. When the experience has a strong Service-Learning component, it will be designated as ALE-SL. Students must complete one approved ALE or ALE-SL. Most are approved on a term-by-term basis and listed in the front section of the Schedule of Classes (published during registration periods in Fall and Spring). The following experiences have been approved to meet the ALE requirement whenever they are offered:

• ANR 494: Labor/Field Learning Experience
• APS 210: Health in Appalachia
• CFS 125: Introduction to Internet Programming
• CFS 441: Family Resource Management
• EDS 355: Extended Experience in Alternative Settings
• EDS 471: Middle Grades Student Teaching Seminar
• EDS 472: Middle Grades Student Teaching
• EDS 487: Elementary Student Teaching
• HLT 210: Health in Appalachia
• NUR 341: Essentials of Nursing Practice I
• PEH 330: Extended School Experience for Physical Education Majors and Health Minors
• All Internships (courses numbered 395/495)
  
• All Faculty-Led undergraduate research experiences (registered as UGR 010 if funded by the

Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Program at Berea, or UGR 020, if approved by the Program Coordinator and funded by sources other than URCPP, including research conducted off campus)

• Introduction
• The Aims of General Education
• General Education Requirements
• Dual Credit
• Practical Reasoning Requirement
• Courses Approved to Meet PR or PRQ Credit
• Six Perspective Areas--All Six Areas Required
• Courses Approved to Meet Perspective Areas
• Lifetime Health and Fitness: PEH 100 and Physical Activity Requirement
• Active Learning Experience
• Developmental Mathematics Requirement
• Twenty Courses Outside the Major Requirement
• First-Terms Requirements

• Introduction
• Academic Calendar
• Degree Requirements
• General Education Program
• Convocations
• Academic Advising
• Degrees of Study
• Majors and Minors
• Pre-Professional Programs
• Graduation Requirements, Honors, and Honor Societies