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 includea) 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 is designated as ALE-SL which indicates that the course is an active learning experience as a result of its incorporation of Service-Learning. Students must complete one approved ALE or ALE-SL.
ALE Requirements
The following experiences have been approved to meet the ALE requirement whenever they are offered:
ANR 494 | Labor/Field Learning Exper | Non-Credit Course |
CFS 441 | Family Resource Management | 1 Course Credit |
EDS 330 | Extended School Experience | 1 Course Credit |
EDS 472 | Midl Grades Student Teaching | 3 Course Credits |
EDS 482 | Scnd Stdnt Tchg:P-12,5-12,8-12 | 3 Course Credits |
EDS 487 | Elementary Student Teaching | 3 Course Credits |
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)
The following experiences have been approved to meet the ALE-SL requirement whenever they are offered: