My Journey: BA in English from TESU

[Ideas]

I think this may be a bit of misunderstanding. There's two parts to doing a PLA. The first is to find an actual college course that you wish to get credit for. I think that's what they are trying to tell you when they say that you can't PLA a professional development course. Search the TESU database for an equivalent course. If you can't find one there, broaden your search to other RA schools to find an equivalent course and submit THAT as your PLA. The second part is doing and documenting the learning. For that part, you could certainly take a PD course, and document that what you learned in it fulfills the learning objectives of the college course.

I understand the process. I just didn't know that these were PD courses.

There was a specific course (PD apparently) which is not found elsewhere that I thought I could PLA. Obviously now I know I cannot, although I still think school offering the course is being misleading to potential students (and TESU somewhat, as they do about other things). By "not found elsewhere", I mean it's literally not found at any other school! It's a specialized topic that isn't in demand.

Then a separate issue for me is that I had planned to TAKE a few of the courses before I knew they were PD. I did not ever want to PLA those courses. I wanted to take them because I thought I would get cheap grad credits, but obviously not. Without being able to take these, then unfortunately I would have to PLA 6-8 courses, which I'm less interested in, but I guess it's the only option to really get the type of degree I want. I would consider getting a broader degree instead, but I'm not sure it's worth it.