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ADULT EDUCATION
ABLE & LINK PROGRAMS
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The Adult Education programs at Southwestern
Christian University (SCU) meet the
educational
needs
of adult learners who desire to earn an accredited
degree. Adults
having completed 60 hours of college
course
work can enter the degree
completion program to earn a
Bachelor of Science degree. The Adult
Degree completion
program
at SCU is called the
ABLE program. This is the
program designed for working adults
to be ABLE to earn a
college degree.
Adults with 12 to 60 hours of college course work can earn
the needed courses to enter
ABLE through SCU’s
LINK program.
The LINK program is designed to help adults
complete their general
education requirements
in an accelerated format. It is the
working
adult’s LINK to a college degree!
Both ABLE and LINK courses are taught as evening class modules which
are five weeks in length. The classes
meet one night
per week for four hours
(6:00-10:00 p.m.) on the Bethany campus.
If you are an adult student, twenty-five years of age or older, and you desire
to earn an accredited degree,
then at SCU
you are ABLE!
DEGREE MAJORS
Southwestern Christian University Degree completion
programs offer the Bachelor of Science degree with four majors:
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The degree requires 128 semester hours for graduation. The student should be
able
to complete the program
in 3 to 4
semesters of continuous studies realized
through
evening classes, student cohorts, and other non-traditional teaching
methods. The
student must complete thirty-six (36) semester hours in the major
core and twelve (12) semester hours in the Bible
core. The experiential credit
does not
satisfy this minimum. PRIOR LEARNING ASSESSMENT An important component of ABLE is college credit for prior learning experiences,
or experiential credit. It is
designed
especially for adults with extensive work or
ministry experience who want to earn a degree . The
goal of experiential
learning
is to correlate acquired information directly to the career activities.
Credit may
be
awarded through the following:
A. Professional/Technical training. Students
supply documentation of
training and articulate learning. This documentation and articulation
is reviewed and evaluated by SCU faculty for the
possible awarding
of college credit.
B.
Prior Learning Experiences. Students write reports in a prescribed
format
detailing learning acquired through various non-collegiate
learning experiences. These reports, which must
include document-
ation, are reviewed and evaluated by SCU faculty for the possible
awarding of college credit.
The assessment of prior learning follows guidelines provided by the Council for
Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL).
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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
• 25 years of age or older
• 12 hours of credit from a regionally accredited college
• Affirm a genuine Christian conversion
• Submit official transcripts from previous institutions*
• Submit an application at least 30 days prior to class.
*Transcripts from regionally accredited colleges and universities and colleges
accredited by the Accrediting
Association
of
Bible Colleges (AABC) will be
accepted by SCU for transfer credit. Hours earned from
unaccredited colleges
may
be
submitted for possible acceptance.
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