Excelsior BS Liberal Arts degree question

[staxchips1]

I am currently doing free Sophia courses. 



So far, I still need:
18 "Applied Professional Electives"
15 "Upper Level Arts and Science Electives"
9 "Arts and Sciences Electives"


Which free courses on Sophia would satisfy these categories? 


Thank you!

[P226mem]

for Excelsior and sophia, here is link to transfer guide https://excelsior.sophia.org/
None of sophia courses are upper level. bummer.
arts electives should be in the "humanities" listing
science: in math and science (of course)
and some of them are listed as professional electives, but I'm giving an incomplete answer about that.

[bjcheung77]

staxchips1, you need to work on courses you haven't taken yet, so if you've taken something with a very similar name to what Sophia.org is offering, skip it. Otherwise, all the courses including the 3 foundations Eng, College Algebra, Stats courses will transfer to Excelsior.

18 "Applied Professional Electives" - It's actually "Applied AND Arts & Sciences", so it can be anything here including business.
15 "Upper Level Arts and Science Electives" - Your best bet is the Study.com courses, nothing at Sophia.org is Upper Level
9 "Arts and Sciences Electives" - Any Gen Ed - arts & science courses you haven't taken yet, see the link above.

[Michelle779]

staxchips1, you need to work on courses you haven't taken yet, so if you've taken something with a very similar name to what Sophia.org is offering, skip it.  Otherwise, all the courses including the 3 foundations Eng, College Algebra, Stats courses will transfer to Excelsior.

18 "Applied Professional Electives" - It's actually "Applied AND Arts & Sciences", so it can be anything here including business.
15 "Upper Level Arts and Science Electives" - Your best bet is the Study.com courses, nothing at Sophia.org is Upper Level
9 "Arts and Sciences Electives" - Any Gen Ed - arts & science courses you haven't taken yet, see the link above.

EC has stopped taking Foundations of Algebra, if they ever took it to begin with.

In my latest evaluation it was rejected. So now I have to suffer through College Algebra.

[rachel83az]

EC has stopped taking Foundations of Algebra, if they ever took it to begin with.

In my latest evaluation it was rejected. So now I have to suffer through College Algebra.

If you took Sophia's Foundations of Algebra, you should have a relatively easy time with Sophia's algebra. They're pretty similar and they go over a lot of the same things, except now it's stuff like 1 + X = 3 instead of 1 + 2 = 3. It's not a great course if you're intending to move on to higher math later, but when all you need is algebra then it works quite well.

[Michelle779]

EC has stopped taking Foundations of Algebra, if they ever took it to begin with.

In my latest evaluation it was rejected. So now I have to suffer through College Algebra.

If you took Sophia's Foundations of Algebra, you should have a relatively easy time with Sophia's algebra. They're pretty similar and they go over a lot of the same things, except now it's stuff like 1 + X = 3 instead of  1 + 2 = 3. It's not a great course if you're intending to move on to higher math later, but when all you need is algebra then it works quite well.

I barely got through the Foundations course.

I'm accessing a lot of online tutorials to help me understand it a bit better. Math is not my strong suit.

[ctcarl]

EC has stopped taking Foundations of Algebra, if they ever took it to begin with.

In my latest evaluation it was rejected. So now I have to suffer through College Algebra.

If you took Sophia's Foundations of Algebra, you should have a relatively easy time with Sophia's algebra. They're pretty similar and they go over a lot of the same things, except now it's stuff like 1 + X = 3 instead of  1 + 2 = 3. It's not a great course if you're intending to move on to higher math later, but when all you need is algebra then it works quite well.

Agree 100%.  I have always been terrible at math and wound up in the degree program I'm in because they didn't have a math requirement, just a math/humanities requirement which I was able to satisfy with Sophia courses.

But when the free promo started, I ended up taking both Foundations of College Algebra and College Algebra, because why not?  In any case, Rachel's comments about those two courses are right on the money.

[SkaroFamily]

Does anyone know if you can take the Statistics class and have it cover the math component for Excelsior? Looking at both the 2 and 3 credit statistics class.

[BSBRose21]

EC has stopped taking Foundations of Algebra, if they ever took it to begin with.

In my latest evaluation it was rejected. So now I have to suffer through College Algebra.

If you took Sophia's Foundations of Algebra, you should have a relatively easy time with Sophia's algebra. They're pretty similar and they go over a lot of the same things, except now it's stuff like 1 + X = 3 instead of  1 + 2 = 3. It's not a great course if you're intending to move on to higher math later, but when all you need is algebra then it works quite well.

Agree 100%.  I have always been terrible at math and wound up in the degree program I'm in because they didn't have a math requirement, just a math/humanities requirement which I was able to satisfy with Sophia courses.

But when the free promo started, I ended up taking both Foundations of College Algebra and College Algebra, because why not?  In any case, Rachel's comments about those two courses are right on the money.

I agree about the two Sophia algebra courses. They seem to be similar in difficulty.