Life Enrichment Program
The Maryville College Life Enrichment Program (MCLEP or “portfolio”) is a means to enrich and diversify students’ educational experience through a combination of curricular and co- curricular activities. In the program students work closely with a faculty or staff mentor to identify or design projects appropriate for their personal growth. Through completion of an individually designed project, students earn one credit hour. The projects must fall into one of the following categories:
- wellness
- leadership
- creative/aesthetic works
- cross-cultural experience, or
- citizenship (e.g., service and community involvement)
Expected outcomes include some of the following: an enriched life, an integration of experiences, discovery, deeper development, and transformation. A central feature of each project is the maintenance of a personal journal, the purposes of which are to encourage careful observation and reflection and to deepen knowledge of oneself. Ordinarily, only one credit hour may be earned in any category, and no more than three credit hours may be earned in the program. One project may be taken for credit in a semester. The program is available only during the fall and spring semesters, except for portfolios related to cross-cultural experience with permission of the International Programming Committee.
Under certain circumstances and conditions, it is possible to earn more than one education abroad-related portfolio credit in a cross-cultural experience. These circumstances include credit for an embedded education abroad program or a cross-cultural project that takes place during any academic session that students study abroad. Contact Kirsten Sheppard at 865-273-8991.
A special portfolio project in self-management is required of first year-in-college students placed on academic probation following the first fall semester (See section on Probation and Suspension). First-year students admitted through the Academic Success Program must satisfactorily complete a portfolio in academic self-management during the first two semesters (0.5 credit hours each semester). Contact the Director of the Academic Support Center for more information.