Prior Learning Art Portfolio Assessment

[3ichael7ambert]

The balanced mix/match trifecta of certs, degree, experience is what I recommend... What's your Pierpont BOG emphasis? What about the UMPI? Is it a BAS, BLS, or one of the BA, BABA? Here's your previous thread, readers may want to know more on your current scenario... This will give them some more idea before they provide you any further advice.  Link: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...rtificates

Well for my career route I have an emphasis on Informational Systems for the BOG, YourPace UMPI BAS with a plan to add IT and BA minors, to get to the MAOL.
I’m also one quiz away (minus projects) from finishing up the Thunderbird's 100 Million Learners, Global Management cert.

I'm one class away EU Liberal Arts, Capstone, but the UMPI BAS seems way better and I am just getting rolling with that.

Also about 3 weeks ago I got a scholarship for UoPeople, in which I can finish 100% for free and I am 6 classes away from a Computer Science Degree.
As far as certs, I am currently taking a CompTIA A+ course and I recently finished a coding bootcamp at Springboard.

As far as my credits go, I started as a Private Art School in 2008 and got:
1. Art History and Design I
2. Life Drawing I
3. Life Drawing II
4. Art + Design History 2
5. Philosophy of Art & Design

Community College 
1. English 101

Coursera
1. Google UX
2. Google Project Management
3. Google Data Analytics
4. Google Ecommerce
5. Google IT Support
6. Real World Cloud Management
7. Salesforce Sales Operation Specialist

TEEX
1. Cyber Security 101 - Everyone
2. Cyber Security 201 - Workplace
3. Cyber Security 301 - Business
(Cumulative of all 10 classes)

Study.com
1. Health 301
2. Psychology 316
3. Business 307
4. Business 310
5. Sociology 305
6. Business 313
7. Sociology 305

Sophia

1. Spanish I
   
2. HIST1020
   
3. BUSI1025
   
4. ENG1002
   
5. CHEM1002
   
6. Intro to Psychology
   
7. Business Law
   
8. US History II
   
9. Intro to Networking 
   
10. principles of Management
    
11. US History I
    
12. Conflict Resolution
    
13. Managerial Accounting
    
14. Intro to Java
    
15. Project Management
    
16. Intro to Python
    
17. Anatomy and Physiology I
    
18. Intro to Relational Databases
    
19. Intro to College Math
    
20. Lifespan Development
    
21. Microbiology
    
22. Human Biology
    
23. Intro to Chem.
    
24. Financial Accounting
    
25. Intro to Business
    
26. Principles of Finance
    
27. Art History II
    
28. Art History I
    
29. Foundations of Statistics
    
30. Intro to Nutrition
    
31. Visual Communications
    
32. Intro to IT
    
33. Env. Science
    
34. Intro to Statistic
    
35. Calculus I
    
36. Ancient Greek Philosophers
    
37. College Algebra
    
38. Essentials of Managing Conflict
    
39. Developing Effective Teams
    
40. Intro to Ethics
    
41. Intro to Web Dev.
    
42. Microeconomics
    
43. Macroeconomics
    
44. Precalculus
    

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As you linked from my other posts

1. As far as the easy accredited certifications, probably improbable due to residencies.
2. Maybe now that this information is avail, someone can chime in on further advice. (I may WGU Masters after MAOL) I'm all ears
3. A Design Associates or a BFA would completely be for Personal reasons but after researching, there's not a lot of ACE Art classes out there, or if there are they ain't cheap. Also PLA don't seem that reasonable. If anything a Penn Foster Graphic Design would be the best route.

I'm all ears for advice.

[bjcheung77]

Strange Fonts! Anyways, budget... If you want, do the EU class and be done with the BSLA, if you have a bigger budget, do the UMPI BAS as well, people do multiple degrees and it varies as the BSLA can have classes in the Liberal Arts and your BAS can have more technical classes... There wouldn't be much if any overlap at all, last but not least, complete the MAOL with the 3-4 classes that can go from the BAS to MAOL.

[3ichael7ambert]

Strange Fonts!  Anyways, budget... If you want, do the EU class and be done with the BSLA, if you have a bigger budget, do the UMPI BAS as well, people do multiple degrees and it varies as the BSLA can have classes in the Liberal Arts and your BAS can have more technical classes... There wouldn't be much if any overlap at all, last but not least, complete the MAOL with the 3-4 classes that can go from the BAS to MAOL.

I wasn’t sure if there wasn’t any administrative issues but I was planning on doing all of the above lol
BAS / MAOL - UMPI
BSLA - EU
BSCS - UoPeople

I’m paying as I go and my day job is a Trucker (although looking for Software Engineering roles).

This whole BFA, I have 15+ years worth of art portfolios, hoping to get to 75% through ACE type of methods (if that’s even possible).

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also, I don’t know why my font kept changing. All I did was type and bam it would happen lol

[allvia]

What about the UMPI BAS with a Marketing Minor, or even the BABA Marketing? That seems practical to the artistic side, and more marketable than a standard liberal art degree (since you have already been working on building your portfolio). The BAS would likely utilize more of your existing credits, and since you already have many tech credits and the BOG AAS you should be good to go that route.

Also, do you have the lab science complete? It is unclear from your posting if you have a lab portion of any of the sciences from Sophia (you'll need that for UMPI)

[3ichael7ambert]

What about the UMPI BAS with a Marketing Minor, or even the BABA Marketing? That seems practical to the artistic side, and more marketable than a standard liberal art degree (since you have already been working on building your portfolio). The BAS would likely utilize more of your existing credits, and since you already have many tech credits and the BOG AAS you should be good to go that route.

Also, do you have the lab science complete? It is unclear from your posting if you have a lab portion of any of the sciences from Sophia (you'll need that for UMPI)

I didn’t see it on my Credly when I was writing it all out, but yes I have the Intro to Chemistry Lab done with the coinciding class. 

Those are all great suggestion. Maybe the marketing to BAS could be the third minor, I’m thinking the first two could be IT or Business Admin of some sort. 

I’m accepted into the BAS and trying to decide if I’m starting Summer Term II or Fall Term I. I’d like to get the BAS classes done in the maximum of two terms but I’m working full time. 

Got a free scholarship at UoPeople (wouldn’t make sense not to finish it up with only six classes), lower accreditation but has official “Computer Science” in the name. 

Since I’m also one class away it would make sense to just get the EU BSLA as well since I’m basically there. 

Unless there’s some policies I’m overlooking where I’m not allowed to have multiple degrees, I’m thinking of knocking all of that out by December of this year (with the Thunderbird 100 Million learners program). 

I’m also starting to rack up technical certifications like ConpTIA A+ Net+ Sec+ and coding bootcamp (however that market is down right now, I’m 1000 applications deep towards Software Developer/Engineering roles with no luck).

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A BFA or even an Associates in Graphic Design is pretty irrelevant especially that I’ve built a vast portfolio.
I’ve browsed the forum where I could potentially get NCCRS endorsed art classes for just short of $500, but at that point I might as well just maximize the classes from a community college. I was curious about portfolio assessments for credits and reached out to quite a few schools, but it doesn’t seem like I’d get as far as I’d hope, plus I would have to pay to do the portfolio eval and potentially get no credit.
I do have a call set up in roughly a week with the chairman of a local art department to discuss basically a pre Assesment to see if I would be a good fit.

However even if I maximize my credits with a PLA portfolio eval, I still have to do a 25% residency at the community college with 5 classes which would total between $1500-2500 total (plus the credit eval costs). They have partnerships with “guaranteed transfer with 4 year colleges, but to my knowledge even if I have enough credits about to fulfill further Gen Ed needs, I would still have to do an additional 25% residency for $1500-2000 per class [give or take].

Especially for a personal degree, seems no way to make it cheap.

[ss20ts]

Just a heads up....UMPI doesn't have an IT minor.

http://catalog.umpi.edu/content.php?catoid=6&navoid=225

[3ichael7ambert]

Just a heads up....UMPI doesn't have an IT minor.

http://catalog.umpi.edu/content.php?catoid=6&navoid=225

You’re right it would actually be the management of IT or  “Management Information Systems”, however despite all of my Techinical credits I don’t think it would line up correctly.

Based off your link, I’d be one class off from having an Art Minor.

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I may actually be closer to a Cyber Security minor.

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The Computer Science Minor I’m two classes shy, that I would actually be taking at UoPeople but idk if that’s transferable because it’s NA and I’d already be hitting my limit.

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However on a different page I read the only BAS minors avail are:
Accounting

Business Administration

Management

Management Information Systems

Project Management

[ss20ts]

The link I posted shows what programs are available on campus. Most are not available in YourPace. You can transfer 8000 credits into UMPI - there's no limit. However, only 90 will be applied to your degree program. That's the maximum that will be applied to your degree requirements. You'll still be required to complete a minimum of 30 credits at UMPI.

[davewill]

As far as an Art degree or certificate, PLA is the only route to use your portfolio. TESU is probably the most straightforward route to using PLA. You can follow the links in my signature for information about the process. That said, it won't be cheap, you either have to pay the residency waiver fee, or you have to take sufficient credits at TESU, which the PLA credit doesn't count towards.

But you could do it, and probably do it fairly quickly, assuming your portfolio is adequate to generate the needed art credit.

If it's for personal enrichment, then maybe you'd be better served by non-academic certification programs that might actually teach you something new.