ACE 110 - RETURN TO LEARNING

ACE 110 helps adult students connect with Roosevelt’s mission, build supportive relationships, reflect on their learning process, engage with campus resources, and coordinate their academic and professional goals. The course focuses on: (1) acquiring key tools needed to be a successful student at RU; (2) engaging the core practices of interdisciplinary studies central to the ACE program; (3) utilizing the ACE program’s credit for prior learning (CPL) portfolio model; and 4) aligning academic and professional goals with the program’s requirements and options.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ENG 101 (may be taken concurrently)

Course Notes: Majors in Interdisciplinary Studies only. Return to Learning is a Roosevelt Adult and Continuing Education program core requirement for adult students entering Roosevelt after being away from college for some time, with at least 20 credit hours (or prior learning equivalent) completed.

ACE 300 - CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN THE WORKPLACE, COMMUNITY, & WORLD

ACE 300 engages students in the history of global civic engagement and reflect on their interrelated identities as members of their communities and as professionals in their fields. Students will present ideas from readings about civic engagement in order to relate the material to their lives, working with peers to discuss topics and discover connections between their lives and the material, and creating a final project that focuses on their how to leverage community assets to enact positive change and grow as individuals.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ACE 110

Course Notes: Majors in Interdisciplinary Studies only. Civic Engagement in the Community, Workplace, and World is an Adult Continuing Education (ACE) program core requirement.

ACE 301 - REFLECTIVE LEARNING PRIOR LEARNING ASSESSMENT

ACE 301 structures a clear process to identify, analyze, interpret, assemble, and document artifacts and outcomes of prior learning experiences in a portfolio that can be assessed by faculty for possible college level credit. Portfolio template combines theories of adult learning, practices of self-assessment, and analysis of prior learning with problem solving, critical thinking, peer review, and focused research to facilitate the assessment of prior learning and future learning goals.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ACE 300

Course Notes: Majors in Interdisciplinary Studies only. REFLECTIVE LEARNING PLA is an Adult Continuing Education (ACE) program core requirement.

ACE 302 - SENIOR SEMINAR CAPSTONE

Required for students graduating from the ACE Program, ACE 302 asks students to create a final project of their own design applying theoretical concepts, scholarly sources, and varied cultural perspectives to a social, economic, aesthetic, or technological issue. Participating in workshop format, students will engage in reflection, research, and communication with others to create knowledge gained from both their program courses, lived experience, and research for their culminating projects.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ACE 301

Course Notes: Majors in Interdisciplinary Studies only. Senior Seminar Capstone is an Adult Continuing Education (ACE) program core requirement.