{"id":48,"date":"2014-05-19T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaston.edu\/workbased-learning-placement\/work-based-learning-college-central\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:25:38","slug":"work-based-learning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gaston.edu\/workbased-learning-placement\/students\/work-based-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-based Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Work-based learning (WBL) is an academic class that you register and pay for like any other college class, but students work to gain practical experience with an employer and earn college credit at the same time. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To qualify for WBL, students should: <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have a minimum 2.0 overall GPA<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be recommended by faculty in the program of study<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meet course pre-requisites before enrolling<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why should I enroll in WBL? <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gain professional experience<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Network with employers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Test drive a career before graduation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earn college credit while working<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increase self-confidence<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Already working in your field? You may be eligible to enroll in a WBL class. Contact us to learn more!<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I get started?<\/span><\/i><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Getting started is easy! <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Send an email to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:WBLP@gaston.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WBLP@gaston.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to make an appointment<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OR<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stop by the Dalpiaz Student Success Center (DSC) Rooms 118 or 114<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View Eligible Programs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaston.edu\/workbased-learning-placement\/students\/eligible-programs\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work-based learning (WBL) is an academic class that you register and pay for like any other college class, but students work to gain practical experience with an employer and earn college credit at the same time. To qualify for WBL, students should: Have a minimum 2.0 overall GPA Be recommended by faculty in the program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15493,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-interior-alt.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaston.edu\/workbased-learning-placement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaston.edu\/workbased-learning-placement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaston.edu\/workbased-learning-placement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaston.edu\/workbased-learning-placement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaston.edu\/workbased-learning-placement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaston.edu\/workbased-learning-placement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaston.edu\/workbased-learning-placement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaston.edu\/workbased-learning-placement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}