Free Course Jacksonville State University

[dfrecore]

Haha, I wonder if they would allow people to rack up credits... 3 credits at a time each semester "trying" their courses.  These would be great RA credits for transfer into the Big 3, especially if each and every one of them are upper level credits!  It'll work wonders for the BALS, just need 4 semesters and 4 "free trials" and you're good for TESU.

The BALS requires 18cr of UL (including the capstone), so you'd need 5 semesters.  That's a long time to wait for free courses (even UL).  And since you don't know what the courses are going to be, so you don't even know if they'll work in the AoS.  Kind of a risky strategy.  But certainly not a terrible one if you're broke, and aren't in a rush to get your degree.

[Life Long Learning]

SW 306 is its course number so it's upper-division. However, it won't be easy to transfer this credit.
"Pass/no credit grading policy" ... it's pass / fail course so you won't get letter grades.
No letter grades generally means you can't transfer it to other institutions.

How about the Big 3?

[NoStudentNoCry]

Free course is available for Spring 2022. The name of course is "SW 306- Stress, Coping, & Resilience".

[dfrecore]

Free course is available for Spring 2022. The name of course is "SW 306- Stress, Coping, & Resilience".

Same as last term.

[park0902]

I can confirm that SW 306 will count towards the 3 credits upper-level AOS of BLS at TESU but not UMPI (because the class has to indicate a C- or up to count, that's what I got from the registrar's office). It's super easy, you just need to do the weekly reading and quizzes. The final questions are from the quizzes as well. If you want a free one for your degree, I highly recommend this one. It costs like 10 bucks to transfer so it's a $10 3 credits upper-level class.

[AllThose299s]

Received my admissions decision today, tried to register (granted the class started a week ago) and turns out the last day to register was yesterday. Boo...
The advising contacts seem to respond quickly, which is nice, however turns out there's a $200 late fee (yikes!) if you want to register after the deadline, guess I'll try again in the Fall.

[bjcheung77]

Received my admissions decision today, tried to register (granted the class started a week ago) and turns out the last day to register was yesterday. Boo...
The advising contacts seem to respond quickly, which is nice, however turns out there's a $200 late fee (yikes!) if you want to register after the deadline, guess I'll try again in the Fall.

Is there no summer session? If you're not busy during the summer and they offer the course, I would recommend it then... or the fall, either option would work. I would have thought there would be 3 or 4 sessions, but haven't looked into it closely to make sure.

Just curious, are you going just for an ASNSM Comp Sci? From the list of your courses, you seem to be done with an ASNSM Math as well, I would add that since it's free anyways, if you don't want it later, just skip it...

[AllThose299s]

Received my admissions decision today, tried to register (granted the class started a week ago) and turns out the last day to register was yesterday. Boo...
The advising contacts seem to respond quickly, which is nice, however turns out there's a $200 late fee (yikes!) if you want to register after the deadline, guess I'll try again in the Fall.

Is there no summer session? If you're not busy during the summer and they offer the course, I would recommend it then... or the fall, either option would work.  I would have thought there would be 3 or 4 sessions, but haven't looked into it closely to make sure.

Just curious, are you going just for an ASNSM Comp Sci?  From the list of your courses, you seem to be done with an ASNSM Math as well, I would add that since it's free anyways, if you don't want it later, just skip it...

So quick update, turns out there is no $200 late fee if you register for the free class only, which is what I was going to do anyways. Just need to hear back from the instructor about if they will allow me to register late.

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As for the other topic... Time eludes me during the summer, I thought I was going to be done last year but I found myself enjoying the outdoors. The ASNSM Comp Sci was an easy win for me since I had so many credits that fell under the Comp Sci... I might try for an ASNSM in Math, we will see. Had a stressful experience recently with trying to calc with straighterline, so I might try going the SDC route for calc instead. In reality I should probably do pre-calc with ALEKS but I'm already in a new billing cycle with SDC, and I'm wrapping up geometry as some prep before I try my coopersmith course.

[ReyMysterioso]

I got accepted at Jax State and am pending instructor approval to be added to this class late. Excited to be a Gamecock!

[AllThose299s]

New Course for Fall 2022, This time it's a lower-division course.

INS 205 - Interdisciplinary Exploration
Theme: Making Sense of a Complex World
"The course will approach the theme of making sense of a complex world from various disciplines, including communication, business, healthcare, education, and more. Planned modules include information on using search engines and trusting sources, managing social media, understanding language used in marketing and political advertisements, advocating for one’s self as a patient, deciphering stocks and Bitcoin, analyzing statistics, and other topics."