Your life experience and skills can translate to college credit
At Rockland Community College, we value the college-level learning acquired outside the traditional college classroom. Students may request credit for a course(s) that does not have an established method for granting credit for prior learning. In these instances, students may submit a digital portfolio for review by the academic discipline.
By submitting documentation in the college’s credit predictor system, students demonstrate their knowledge of college-level learning in a particular subject area. You may have acquired this knowledge through your past work, training programs or in-service courses, volunteer service, cultural or artistic pursuits, hobbies and recreational past times, certifications, licensures, apprenticeships, civic leadership, study abroad, military training not evaluated for credit by ACE or other experiences.
After submitting your documentation, a faculty subject matter expert will be assigned to assist you. The faculty reviewer will reach out to through the system to discuss your academic goals and identify any other documentation that may be helpful to articulate the knowledge that was required for the equivalent course. The faculty reviewer may include skill simulations or demonstration as an assessment of student’s performance or demonstration of specific skill or competency. Interview-based assessment is an evaluation of responses given during a structured interview on the subject matter.
Awarded credit is recorded on the student’s transcript and identified with “CPL” instead of a grade. Students should contact their transfer institution to inquire if CPL credits are transferable to their incoming institution.
Note:
*Credit cannot be earned through portfolio evaluation for certain types of courses, including any course that must be fulfilled through direct current experience, such as practicum courses, field experiences and internships including capstones and lab courses not accompanied by related lecture/theory courses.
**English composition and most math courses are not well suited for portfolio evaluation; however, the college accepts CLEP, DSST and Excelsior exam credits where appropriate
Submit documentation in the RCC Credit Predictor to find out if you may be eligible to earn credit.