Application and Degree Planning Advice

[Jonathan Whatley]

Consider, in the mix, the competency-based UW Flexible Option BS in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

AACSB accredited. Your home state, and it would finish approximately where you started, with the UW System at least.

Conventional wisdom is that UW Flexible Option is slower than UMPI YourPace for the average student. But you're very much not the average student in a bachelor's in business.

[dfrecore]

That's awesome if they'll still award credit for that - please send it in and then report back on what they say.

[CHken92]

I did receive credit for my ChFC course work and my FINRA licensure. So fantastic!!

I've been cranking out classes at Sophia and have a bunch of questions.

First, here is what I took, will they transfer appropriately?

Ethical Leadership (3SH) - Intro to Ethics?
Social Science, History and/or Humanities (1SH) - Ancient Greek Philosophers?
Scientific Knowledge (3SH) – Environmental Science?
Computers (3SH) - Intro to IT?

I have 2.5 weeks left with Sophia and wonder what I can fill from them for remaining credits.
Here is what I need for Business Core (I don’t have any core UL), any Sophia recommendations?

Managerial Acctg (3SH)

Management (3SH)

Marketing (3SH)

Business/Society (3SH) (recommended MAN-372 or BUS-311)

Stats (3SH)

Quantv Skills (3SH)

Comunications (3SH)


Last question,
For AOS Finance (18SH/12 UL) it says I have 13 earned in Group 1 and 0 in group 2.
Does this mean I need 12 UL Finance?
I know they will likely come from Davar/SDC.

Thanks in advance!

[carrythenothing]

I did receive credit for my ChFC course work and my FINRA licensure. So fantastic!!

I've been cranking out classes at Sophia and have a bunch of questions.

First, here is what I took, will they transfer appropriately?

Ethical Leadership (3SH) -  Intro to Ethics?
Social Science, History and/or Humanities (1SH) -  Ancient Greek Philosophers?
Scientific Knowledge (3SH) – Environmental Science?
Computers (3SH) -  Intro to IT?

I have 2.5 weeks left with Sophia and wonder what I can fill from them for remaining credits.
Here is what I need for Business Core (I don’t have any core UL), any Sophia recommendations?

Managerial Acctg (3SH)

Management (3SH)

Marketing (3SH)

Business/Society (3SH) (recommended MAN-372 or BUS-311)

Stats (3SH)

Quantv Skills (3SH)

Comunications (3SH)


Last question,
For AOS Finance (18SH/12 UL) it says I have 13 earned in Group 1 and 0 in group 2.
Does this mean I need 12 UL Finance?
I know they will likely come from Davar/SDC.

Thanks in advance!

Take Introduction to Statistics (not Foundations of Statistics) and College Algebra (not Foundations of College Algebra), since neither has touchstones and both are required for the degree. Principles of Management should also be upper-level with one touchstone. Here are the known Sophia equivalencies: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/So...lency_List

Are the Group 1 credits upper-level or lower-level credits? You need at least 12 upper-level credits in the area of study and 6 upper-level credits in the business core/professional business requirements (which includes the capstone).

[CHken92]

carrythenothing

I did receive credit for my ChFC course work and my FINRA licensure. So fantastic!!

I've been cranking out classes at Sophia and have a bunch of questions.

First, here is what I took, will they transfer appropriately?

Ethical Leadership (3SH) -  Intro to Ethics?
Social Science, History and/or Humanities (1SH) -  Ancient Greek Philosophers?
Scientific Knowledge (3SH) – Environmental Science?
Computers (3SH) -  Intro to IT?

I have 2.5 weeks left with Sophia and wonder what I can fill from them for remaining credits.
Here is what I need for Business Core (I don’t have any core UL), any Sophia recommendations?

Managerial Acctg (3SH)

Management (3SH)

Marketing (3SH)

Business/Society (3SH) (recommended MAN-372 or BUS-311)

Stats (3SH)

Quantv Skills (3SH)

Comunications (3SH)


Last question,
For AOS Finance (18SH/12 UL) it says I have 13 earned in Group 1 and 0 in group 2.
Does this mean I need 12 UL Finance?
I know they will likely come from Davar/SDC.

Thanks in advance!

Take Introduction to Statistics (not Foundations of Statistics) and College Algebra (not Foundations of College Algebra), since neither has touchstones and both are required for the degree. Principles of Management should also be upper-level with one touchstone. Here are the known Sophia equivalencies: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/So...lency_List

Are the Group 1 credits upper-level or lower-level credits? You need at least 12 upper-level credits in the area of study and 6 upper-level credits in the business core/professional business requirements (which includes the capstone).



Thanks. I already have College Algebra from prior college so no need there. 

When I go to the Wiki page I am confused because many of the TESU equivalencies listed aren't in the catalog. Example: TESU courses PHI-226 Ancient Greek Philosophy and PHI-180 Introduction to Ethics aren't in this list.
 https://www.tesu.edu/academics/courses/j...Leadership

Maybe I'm getting hung up on the names/numbers and that doesnt really matter, I just dont want to waste time. Looks like Stats and Principles of Management are it. 

As far as the AOS being UL or LL I have no idea.  I'm not sure what "Group 1" means if they are UL or not.
Here is what they listed my TESU equivalencies as:
ACC-311 (3SH)
BUS-391(2SH)
INS-303 (2SH)
INS-341 (2SH)
FIN-321 (2SH)
BUS-401(2SH)

[bjcheung77]

Group 1 and Group 2 for the Finance (and some AOS) just means a "set" of courses that meet their requirements for that AOS. Many AOS have specific requirements, the Finance, General Management, and a few do NOT have specific courses required. You can have any 4 UL Finance courses and 2 LL Finance courses, from the looks of things, you're good to go with the UL requirements, just take two LL Finance courses or a couple UL Finance courses at Study.com or whichever provider you want, you're already there.

[CHken92]

Group 1 and Group 2 for the Finance (and some AOS) just means a "set" of courses that meet their requirements for that AOS.  Many AOS have specific requirements, the Finance, General Management, and a few do NOT have specific courses required.  You can have any 4 UL Finance courses and 2 LL Finance courses, from the looks of things, you're good to go with the UL requirements, just take two LL Finance courses or a couple UL Finance courses at Study.com or whichever provider you want, you're already there.

Thanks for the clarification! Will I still need a UL in Core then?

[rachel83az]

Yes, you still need 1 UL in the core. Do the Sophia "Principles of Management" for your UL core course.

Also, do not worry about specific courses on the equivalency page not being in the catalog. While the catalog implies that you need to take specific courses for a degree, you usually DO NOT. Just about any ethics course will do, for instance, not just ETH-230. For core, the catalog ( https://tesu.smartcatalogiq.com/Current/...in-Finance ) implies that you need mostly UL courses to fill the requirements. This is untrue. You do need 1 UL course, but the remainder can be LL.