What is the La Verne Experience Mission?
The La Verne Experience (LVE) is the University of La Verne’s signature academic experience. LVE is designed to foster a holistic education and create a sense of belonging to build a community of learners. LVE focuses on integrated learning and theory-to-practice participation, as well as engagement in reflective thinking and analysis of critical social issues. LVE thus empowers students to create transformative change through a pedagogy of equity and social justice, intentional discourse, and community engagement, by working alongside diverse groups and individuals.
What is Life Long Learning:
Lifelong learning (one of our University values) refers to the idea that learning is a lifelong process that continues beyond formal education. Integrative learning involves the synthesis of knowledge and skills across multiple domains, and often involves interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving. An integral aspect of Integrative learning, lifelong learning (our University value), is an understanding and a disposition that a student builds across the curriculum and co-curriculum, from making simple connections among ideas and experiences to synthesizing and transferring learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus. Lifelong learning can facilitate integrative learning by providing opportunities for ongoing skill development and exposure to new ideas and perspectives. Integrative learning, in turn, can support lifelong learning by helping individuals develop a deeper and more meaningful understanding of the world around them.
What is LVE 400?
Faculty across colleges and departments have created these courses to focus on interdisciplinary topics and career ready skills including written communication, critical thinking, and intercultural competence. Therefore, students from a variety of majors and backgrounds research and share their knowledge, skills and interests developed up to this point. Further, while pooling their resources, students will collaborate on an interdisciplinary topic and reflect on the topic through multiple cultural perspectives. Students in LVE 400 will incorporate the university value of Integrative Learning (lifelong learning) into their life experiences reflecting on how this university value connects to their own personal and career goals.
Directions:
For this assignment, you as a student will reflect on how you have incorporated integrative learning into your life experiences at the University of La Verne and how integrative learning connects to your own personal and career goals.
Select an experience that involved integrative learning. It should provide the reader with a general overview of your personal or academic experience. Describe your personal views of the experience and then, evaluate your learning based on this experience.
The end result will be approximately a 2 to 3-page essay in length. Use the following questions below only to guide you in developing your essay. Do not copy and paste the questions into the body of the paper. You don’t need to answer all of the questions just the ones that may relate to your subject matter.
What was the experience (curricular, co-curricular, etc)?
What was your role in the experience?
Who was present?
Who benefited from the experience?
When and Where did this experience take place?
Why did you participate?
What is your perspective or your personal views on the experience?
Describe your personal views on integrative learning.
Cite theory, facts, or give examples to explain your views on integrative learning.
How did your experience deepen your understanding of integrative learning?
What have you learned about integrative learning?
In light of this learning, have your views on integrative learning changed?
In light of this learning, what have you learned about yourself?
In light of this learning, what areas do you think you can improve on?
In light of this learning, what goals can you set for the future?
Below is a Sample Paper for your reference.
