graduate PLA is a no cost and no credit four week workshop which provides the same content as the COLL200 course but in an accelerated format. The workshop offers optional assignments that help the student evaluate their learning and mandatory assignments which are components of the portfolio whereby allowing feedback from the PLA team member monitoring the workshop for a successful portfolio. Once the student has completed the portfolio and is ready to submit to an evaluator, a nominal fee is charged for the portfolio submission

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