Physics Concentration at Charter Oak State College

[sciencemathematics1]

I want to go on the path to a major in physics or a physics concentration. I looked through Charter Oak's degree programs and it appears that they don't have a physics concentration as an option, although they have biology, chemistry, and engineering studies as options. Is there any way that I can still obtain a physics concentration from Charter Oak, such as through transferring credits from somewhere else?

[armstrongsubero]

You can contact them, I don't know if they removed it but at one point in time they did have a Physics concentration and I knew they accepted the Physics GRE as a certain number of UL and LL credits. It's best to talk to the school and see what they say.

Once you get a response post back here so that the community will have that information as well.

[sciencemathematics1]

You can contact them, I don't know if they removed it but at one point in time they did have a Physics concentration and I knew they accepted the Physics GRE as a certain number of UL and LL credits. It's best to talk to the school and see what they say.

Once you get a response post back here so that the community will have that information as well.

Thank you. I will try to contact them and poat back when I get a response. It is good to know that they had it before, so they might still have it if I ask them.

[sciencemathematics1]

I called Charter Oak State College. They said that they don't offer a physics concentration program because they don't offer any courses in it. However if I was able to get entirely tranfer credits for the courses in order to meet all of the requirements, I would be able to get the physics concentration, as long as all of the requirements are met.

[sciencemathematics1]

This is still not very clear to me.

On another thread I created, I was told the following at the follosing post:

https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid302308

When I called Charter Oak, they were not clear about this poilcy. I called them again and they just told me that they didn't have a physics concentration, but they didn't tell me I could come up with my own and submit for approval.

Is there anywhere on the Charter Oak website which talks about this policy?

charter oak has an general studies outline for biology, chemistry, and technology, but none for physics 
https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/curre...tudies.php

but I think all you have to do is come up with your own and submit it for approval            

you could even do liberal studies 
https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/curre...tudies.php
where you combine two or more disciplines 
the example they give Physics/Geology

again, just come up with a plan and submit for approval

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https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/curre..._study.php

At this link it says that you must submit approval for a concentration plan of study within the subject areas listed, but it says nothing about submitting a request for a new concentration title to be submitted with a degree plan, so would it still mean that I am able to submit a plan for a physics concentration that they do not offer?

[bluebooger]

This is still not very clear to me.

but I think all you have to do is come up with your own and submit it for approval            


again, just come up with a plan and submit for approval

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https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/curre..._study.php

At this link it says that you must submit approval for a concentration plan of study within the subject areas listed, but it says nothing about submitting a request for a new concentration title to be submitted with a degree plan, so would it still mean that I am able to submit a plan for a physics concentration that they do not offer?

didn't you say almost the same thing in the post above "However if I was able to get entirely tranfer credits for the courses in order to meet all of the requirements, I would be able to get the physics concentration, as long as all of the requirements are met."

what exactly are "the requirements" considering that they don't have a concentration already planned out ? 
wouldn't "the requirements" be a concentration plan approved by an academic counselor ? 

but maybe I don't understand charter oak either

and you haven't taken the exam yet, correct ?  
and you're still in high school ?

have you seen the physics exam ? 
https://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/practice_book_physics.pdf
are you really able to do all the questions on page 34 ?

maybe the AP Physics exams might be better  
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses

[sciencemathematics1]

This is still not very clear to me.

but I think all you have to do is come up with your own and submit it for approval            


again, just come up with a plan and submit for approval

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https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/curre..._study.php

At this link it says that you must submit approval for a concentration plan of study within the subject areas listed, but it says nothing about submitting a request for a new concentration title to be submitted with a degree plan, so would it still mean that I am able to submit a plan for a physics concentration that they do not offer?

didn't you say almost the same thing in the post above "However if I was able to get entirely tranfer credits for the courses in order to meet all of the requirements, I would be able to get the physics concentration, as long as all of the requirements are met."

what exactly are "the requirements" considering that they don't have a concentration already planned out ? 
wouldn't "the requirements" be a concentration plan approved by an academic counselor ? 

but maybe I don't understand charter oak either

and you haven't taken the exam yet, correct ?  
and you're still in high school ?

have you seen the physics exam ? 
https://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/practice_book_physics.pdf
are you really able to do all the questions on page 34 ?

maybe the AP Physics exams might be better  
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses

Yes, I did say that. Although I am not sure if that is what they meant, because it was not very clear to me from my call with them. That is why I will be e-maling them these questions.

Yes, the requirements would be a concentration plan approved by a counselor. And it would be a division of 36 credits, with 18 (half) being upper level courses.

I am looking into the physics GRE exam.

And yes, I am going to be taking AP Physics exams this year. I am enrolled in AP Physics C (calculus based) at my high school and I am going to be taking the AP Physics C: Mechanics and the AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism exams.

[sciencemathematics1]

After e-mailing them it doesn't seem like they could offer any physics concentration to me.

Now, I am instead currently thinking of getting a degree with mathematics concentration from Charter Oak. I still want to have many credits in physics as part of my degree plan, but it just wouldn't be awarded a physics concentration. I would want the same amount of physics credits as part of my degree as would be typically required for a major or concentration, as in 36 or more. I would obtain 24 credits from the Physics GRE subject test, and the rest of them would be from other sources, such as self-paced online physics courses. These would be upper-level classes that I would want to obtain credit for.

My goal after getting my degree being to apply for graduate school in physics, I would want to have all of these physics classes as part of my degree in order to be able to get into physics grad school with enough physics credits that I would need to in order to be in physics grad school.

[sciencemathematics1]

If I completed both the math and the physics GRE with Charter Oak, and I get 48 credits total with 18 UL credits, wouldn't I have enough credits for a bachelors in general studies with a concentration in liberal studies? Liberal studies lets you do two subjects to concentrate on.
https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/curre...tudies.php

Also, I am questioning about what these GRE credits would actually mean when it comes to my education on the subjects. I heard that they wouldn't be put as individual classes on my transcript but I am not sure eactly how it is that they appear as. Would they just be seen as filler or empty credits or would they be seen as evidence of my knowledge in the subject?

[bluebooger]

I'm not actually sure they accept the GRE anymore

its not listed here anymore
https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/curre...ograms.php

or here either
https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/curre...values.pdf

and htey used to have the math concentration listed here that showed how the GRE credits applied - but its not here anymore
https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/curre...ations.php

https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/curre...ntrations/