Confused about adding another degree

[Dorothy44]

If we are almost done getting a BSBA in with CIS, what does it take to also get a degree in ASNSM - Computer Science?  I know I read another question similar to this, but it was a bit confusing to me.  Extra courses?

[bjcheung77]

Email TESU academic advising asking them to add a program into your list, indicate you want the ASNSM Computer Science added. That's it because the courses you take in your BSBA CIS (all the CIS courses 18 credits) will be enough to complete the 16 credit ASNSM Computer Science Area of Study requirements. But if your sons want extra credits for FREE, then get them to do all the TEEX Cybersecurity classes if they haven't done so already.

[Dorothy44]

Email TESU academic advising asking them to add a program into your list, indicate you want the ASNSM Computer Science added.  That's it because the courses you take in your BSBA CIS (all the CIS courses 18 credits) will be enough to complete the 16 credit ASNSM Computer Science Area of Study requirements.  But if your sons want extra credits for FREE, then get them to do all the TEEX Cybersecurity classes if they haven't done so already.

Thank you for your reply.  What is the advantage to taking the extra courses from TEEX other than adding credits.  They have lots of extra credits already that actually did not count because they were lower level, and did not transfer over.  Several came from Saylor when they were counted on ACE.

[bjcheung77]

If they have sufficient LL credits for the ASNSM Computer Science from some computer science courses at Saylor, then the TEEX Cybersecurity wouldn’t be needed, they can be used as an ego boost, or some people like me, we collect college credit for the sake of learning, and I can brag about getting inexpensive credits, the same way I got a few of those inexpensive executive education certificates...

[Dorothy44]

Thank you for sharing.  We had extra from Saylor and a local CC before I knew they had to be all UL.  .  Hopefully, they can be used for something now.  I just wanted to make sure they did not "need" them to add to the degree.  Thanks again.

[LevelUP]

You need 2 maths.

Algebra and something higher than algebra like the Sophia Stats course.   (can't use CMS learn)

Other than that you need nothing else as your CIS courses will be used for the CS courses so it's a free/easy extra degree.

System Analysis
MIS
Database Management
Mrktng Digital & Social Media
Intro IT (sophia)  (or whatever intro computers you got for the BSBA)
Programming language

[Dorothy44]

You need 2 maths.

Algebra and something higher than algebra like the Sophia Stats course.   (can't use CMS learn)

Other than that you need nothing else as your CIS courses will be used for the CS courses so it's a free/easy extra degree.

System Analysis
MIS
Database Management
Mrktng Digital & Social Media
Intro IT (sophia)  (or whatever intro computers you got for the BSBA)
Programming language

Thank you. They already had all that added to their degree plan for the BSBA and done with most of it.   (College Alg. - CLEP, Stats - Community College and College Math - CLEP)

System Analysis  (Done SDC)
MIS (Done except for papers SDC)
Database Management (still to be done)
Mrktng Digital & Social Media (still to be done)
Intro IT (sophia)  (or whatever intro computers you got for the BSBA)-  (CLEP)
Programming language  (C+, C++, and Object Oriented Programming.)

[rachel83az]

Programming language  (C+, C++, and Object Oriented Programming.)

Unless you're already familiar with these languages, I would highly recommend SDC's Programming in Python course. The single assignment is really easy. It took me about 3 hours and that's mostly because I decided to get fancy with it. In contrast, (at least at SDC) the C/C++ courses look like their assignments could each take a couple of days to complete.

[Dorothy44]

Programming language  (C+, C++, and Object Oriented Programming.)

Unless you're already familiar with these languages, I would highly recommend SDC's Programming in Python course. The single assignment is really easy. It took me about 3 hours and that's mostly because I decided to get fancy with it. In contrast, (at least at SDC) the C/C++ courses look like their assignments could each take a couple of days to complete.

Thank you for the suggestions.  My sons already took the above courses at our community college, and they did very well in them all. 

As an update, they had the ASNSM in Computer Science added to their degree plan, and all the extra courses came in beautifully!!  All they have left to take is the Information Literacy which they will need for their other degree (BSBA) anyway.