Excelsior National Security Help - Final Stages

[BBryant165]

Hi Everyone, 

I am in the final stages of completing my degree with Excelsior College in National Security. I have been able to successfully meet the large majority of the requirements with a combination of military training from JST, community college credit based on military training, and sophia learning for the remaining general education requirements that were not in my Associates degree program. I have listed out my current credit below (degree requirements .JPG attached). 

Now with where I could use assistance. The BNS degree with Excelsior requires 21 UL Arts & Sciences, I still have 12 credits in the Major to complete that will reduce that number. This leaves me with 9 credits in UL A&S that I need to fill to meet all the requirements minus those i need to take with the school. I planned to take these through SDC however, when talking to my academic advisor the courses I requested (Business 313: Organizational Communication; Criminal Justice 306: Research Methods in Criminal Justice; History 309: War & American Society: History 307: The American Civil Rights Movement; History 311: The Holocaust & WWII) All come in as LL credit with the exception of BUS313 which is a COMM credit I already have through the military.

My question: Does anyone know of specific courses I can send to my academic advisor for approval with Excelsior that are UL Arts & Sciences (preferably ACE or NCCRS recommended) through study.com or another platform that are Cheap/Free and Online (proctored or unproctored)?

Thanks!

MILITARY SERVICE SCHOOL COURSE 
LEADERSHIP (3.00 LL) 
INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT (3.00 LL)
COMMUNICATION (3.00 LL)
TECHNICAL WRITING (3.00 LL)
SUPERVISION (3.00 LL)
DATABASE MANAGEMENT (3.00 UL)
INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS (3.00 UL)
NATIONAL SECURITY (3.00 UL)
OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE (3.00 UL)

COMM*131A BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMM (1.00 LL) 
PSY*131A HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY (1.00 LL) 
POL*131A INTRODUCTION TO WORLD POLITICS (1.00 LL)


COMMUNITY COLLEGE - AAS INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS &STUDIES
IOS*100 INTRO TO INTEL OPS STUDIES (3.00 LL) 
IOS*104 ANALYTICAL PROCESS AND PRODUCT (3.00 LL) 
IOS*117 SYMBOLOGY (3.00 LL)
IOS*118 INTEL PREP OF THE BATTLEFIELD (3.00 LL) 
IOS*122 INTEL, SURVEIL AND RECON (3.00 LL)
IOS*123 TARGETING (3.00 LL) 
IOS*209 AUTOMATED INTEL SYSTEMS (3.00 LL) 
IOS*241 MGT OF INTEL/COUNTINTEL OPS I (3.00 LL) 
IOS*203 COMBATING TERRORISM (3.00 LL)
IOS*211 MILITARY DECISION MAKING (3.00 LL) 
IOS*214 REPORTING OF INTEL DATA II (3.00 LL) 
IOS*215 BRIEFING SKILLS II (3.00 LL)
AJS*101 INTRO TO ADMIN OF JUSTICE (3.00 LL) 
ENG*101 COMPOSITION (3.00 LL)
ENG*102 ENGLISH COMPOSITION (3.00 LL) 
MAT*142 COLLEGE MATHEMATICS (3.00 LL) 

EXCELSIOR COLLEGE 
INL*102 INFORMATION LITERACY (1.00 LL)
IND*301 CORNERSTONE B: PATHWAYS (3.00 UL) 


SOPHIA LEARNING, LLC 
ART HISTORY I (3.00 LL) 
INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (3.00 LL) 
HUMAN BIOLOGY (3.00 LL) 
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY (3.00 LL)
US HISTORY (3.00 LL)

[Life Long Learning]

EC use to take a bunch of DSST exams as UL?

[ctcarl]

My question: Does anyone know of specific courses I can send to my academic advisor for approval with Excelsior that are UL Arts & Sciences (preferably ACE or NCCRS recommended) through study.com or another platform that are Cheap/Free and Online (proctored or unproctored)?

TEEX Death Investigation Online is ACE-approved for 3 UL credits, and it's a bargain at $75.00, including all course materials.  I imagine you can work that into a National Security degree program.

You could probably use Organizational Behavior from Davar Academy as well.  That's $80 (plus $15 for ProctorNow), and it came in at EC as 4 UL Science credits for me.  Plus, if you like/need any other Davar business courses, the price drops even further, 2 courses for $99.

[sava60]

I completed the following DAU (Defense Acquistion University) courses. I had them added to my ACE account  and submitted them to Excelsior and this is what they came back evaluated as:
ACQ 160 - Program Protection Planning Awareness (DAU 298) - 2 UL Project Management
CMC 100 - Contract Administration Fundaments (DAU 0288) - 1 UL Contract Management
CON 100 - Shaping Smart Business Arrangements (DAU 0145) 2 UL Public Management
CON 200 - Business Decisions for Contracting (DAU 0252) - 2 UL Material Management
PMT 355 - Program Management Office Course, Part A (DAU 275) - 3 UL Operations Management
RQM 110 - Core Concepts for Requirements Management (DAU 0256) - 1 UL Acquisition Management

[ss20ts]

Before signing up for this course Business 313: Organizational Communication, get it in writing from EC that is will come in as a liberal arts elective. It's a business course and they may not give it liberal art credit.

[BBryant165]

I completed the following DAU (Defense Acquisition University) courses. I had them added to my ACE account  and submitted them to Excelsior and this is what they came back evaluated as:
ACQ 160 - Program Protection Planning Awareness (DAU 298) - 2 UL Project Management
CMC 100 - Contract Administration Fundamentals (DAU 0288) - 1 UL Contract Management
CON 100 - Shaping Smart Business Arrangements (DAU 0145) 2 UL Public Management
CON 200 - Business Decisions for Contracting (DAU 0252) - 2 UL Material Management
PMT 355 - Program Management Office Course, Part A (DAU 275) - 3 UL Operations Management
RQM 110 - Core Concepts for Requirements Management (DAU 0256) - 1 UL Acquisition Management

Sava, Thanks. 

I completed ACQ 160 and PMT355 from DAU. Unfortunately I am looking for Arts and Science specific courses. I added these to my ACE Transcript and unfortunately they were not added towards my degree requirements  . Did you speak with your advisor about having these fit into the A&S portion of your MAP? Im not sure how the liberal arts plan varies from the national security reqs.

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My question: Does anyone know of specific courses I can send to my academic advisor for approval with Excelsior that are UL Arts & Sciences (preferably ACE or NCCRS recommended) through study.com or another platform that are Cheap/Free and Online (proctored or unproctored)?

TEEX Death Investigation Online is ACE-approved for 3 UL credits, and it's a bargain at $75.00, including all course materials.  I imagine you can work that into a National Security degree program.

You could probably use Organizational Behavior from Davar Academy as well.  That's $80 (plus $15 for ProctorNow), and it came in at EC as 4 UL Science credits for me.  Plus, if you like/need any other Davar business courses, the price drops even further, 2 courses for $99.

ctcarl, 

Thanks!! I've been using the TEEX system to earn some credits paid for by DHS/FEMA but generally those are lower level. I'm going to ask my advisor about this tomorrow, since its approved by ACE as a criminal justice credit I'm sure I can fit it in under Humanities somewhere. 

This is the exact type response I was looking for, things under $100 I can run past my advisor prior to purchase.