Sophia Difficulty - Alternative Credit Options

[splirow]

What someone finds easy may be hard for others, there is no specific list.  The best way to go about this is to view the entire course list and take subjects that interest you first as it'll be something you can review/preview it before other courses that interest you less.  Another way to go around this is to see which has the least/most amount of work, it'll be easier to complete the ones with less milestones/touchstones, etc.  Here: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/So...lency_List

I mean, you're asking people to list from easiest to hardest from a list of 40 courses, it's like asking you, for your degree you're taking, which courses are eaiest to hardest for yourself... it varies considerably for each person.  Find your info from the link above and go gung ho on all the courses that you need/want to take... do ones that appeal to you most first.

Your right BJ!
I do like the reviews that OldManOfTheSea did with IC courses. It would have been awesome for Sophia as well or any other course in SDC..etc

[rachel83az]

You can see reviews for most, if not all, of the Sophia courses that I've taken in this thread: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...YOUR-input There are reviews from other students as well. I think OldManOfTheSea got the idea from that thread.

[splirow]

You can see reviews for most, if not all, of the Sophia courses that I've taken in this thread: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...YOUR-input There are reviews from other students as well. I think OldManOfTheSea got the idea from that thread.

Awesome!!!

[NC Coach]

If you have completed Sophia courses, can you rank them from Easiest to Hardest? I would appreciate that and I am sure many here as well.

I've taken 11 of the three-credit courses and 2 of the one-credit courses.   I agree with what has been said here, as a lot of what goes into a course being difficult is based on the individual.  

Having said that, the "Taking Charge of Your Economic Future" should be a super easy class for any functioning adult as it covers things most people should know about personal finance.

[ss20ts]

There's no way to say what's the easiest or hardest. My husband and I took several Sophia classes at the same time. We did not find the same classes to be easy or difficult. Usually the total opposite. Everyone has different abilities, experience, and preferences. I could sit in business classes all day and night. My husband would lose his mind. He could sit in math or physics all day and night and be a happy camper. I'd jump off a bridge. LOL

[LevelUP]

The difficulty for each Sophia course I define as how long the course will take.  None of the courses are so difficult that we get many reports of people failing a course though some have failed milestones. 

The English comp I &II, Public speaking, takes a long time to grade each assignment.

The Math courses can be challenging, though, with a good calculator, they aren't complicated. You have to take your time going through them.

History I, I found, was more complicated because you had to select multiple answers for each question, much harder to guess.

Ethics and Ancient Greek Philosophers can trip some people up if you have never taken an ethics course before.

Environmental Science and Visual Communications are some of the most straightforward courses. You can start there to get a feel for how Sophia works.

[JB33]

I completed all of my sophia courses that I'll be taking within a 6 day stretch (grading aside of course, still waiting on English Comp to be fully graded, but had the papers prepared.)

Honestly, I can't say any of the ones I took were hard at all. If anything, my difficulty with one or two might've been boredom of learning something I really could care less about and as such made it more difficult to power through it.

[bjcheung77]

I completed all of my sophia courses that I'll be taking within a 6 day stretch (grading aside of course, still waiting on English Comp to be fully graded, but had the papers prepared.)

Honestly, I can't say any of the ones I took were hard at all. If anything, my difficulty with one or two might've been boredom of learning something I really could care less about and as such made it more difficult to power through it.

You're a speed demon! Anyways, Yeah, if you have a secondary monitor, it'll help as these are all open book quizzes/exams. The writing assignments aren't that hard either even for those with writers block or memory recall and other minor disabilities like mine (ADHD, dyslexia, etc...). I wouldn't even worry about anything, you may want to read the reviews, "just do it" - don't rush, pace yourself.