La Verne Experience (LVE)

This is a seminar course that focuses on career and self-development. It extends the curricular experience into the co-curricular. The course provides opportunities and resources for students to seek career information related to academic and career interest. Students are guided through individual and group exercises that assist in identifying needs, values, wants, interest, and abilities. The goal of LVE 200 is to help students develop a strong foundation for major/career decision planning through career inventories, research on careers, and personal reflection. Not challengeable.

This course fosters the development of self-reflective, socially aware, and responsive community participants through reciprocal service and learning. Students will learn and develop through active participation in community service. Engaging in service not only provides an experience of meeting real needs in the community, it also integrates classroom learning with community involvement, supplementing the academic curriculum by providing practical experience to reflect on the responsibilities and rewards of serving the human and ecological community.

This is a seminar course that combines the learning outcomes for both LVE 100 and LVE 200: social justice and career/self-development. This course is only for students who are juniors and seniors, and is recommended for students who did not start at University La Verne as freshmen. LVE 350 is currently taught only in an asynchronous format. Not challengeable.

The Senior GE Capstone course is a one-unit seminar course that focuses on an interdisciplinary project to serve as a general education capstone as well as the compilation of signature artifacts within an ePortfolio that showcase achievement/mastery of baccalaureate goals. Scaffolded onto FLEX, SoLVE, and the general education, the goal of LVE 400 is to expose students to how their liberal arts education provides a foundation that reveals the interconnections among disciplines. Students will create their ePortfolio comprised of artifacts and reflection essays that contemplate, examine, and internalize their coursework at La Verne. Students will also develop their presentation skills, preparing them for graduate school and the professional world. Letter grade only. Not challengeable.