Sophia - Managerial Accounting and Lifespan

[Jonathan Whatley]

A possible silver lining, maybe: If TESU views these as separate courses, in principle a student could complete Lifespan Development from Sophia for 3 credits of PSY-1999 and an approved course, such as Psychology 107: Life Span Developmental Psychology from study.com, from elsewhere for 3 credits of PSY-2110 Developmental Psychology, for 6 credits total.

[bjcheung77]

Interesting, what degree are you going for? I wonder if there are changes... TESU rejected the PSY-1999 from the Social Science General Education requirement area? This is for the field under C. Knowledge of Human Cultures correct? Weird, their webpage shows PSY classes should be able to hit that field, generally it doesn't matter what the numbering is, it's a general education elective, not a specific requirement for the AOS. https://www.tesu.edu/academics/courses/j...-and-after

[vaticidalprophet]

Interesting, what degree are you going for? I wonder if there are changes... TESU rejected the PSY-1999 from the Social Science General Education requirement area?  This is for the field under C. Knowledge of Human Cultures correct?  Weird, their webpage shows PSY classes should be able to hit that field, generally it doesn't matter what the numbering is, it's a general education elective, not a specific requirement for the AOS.  https://www.tesu.edu/academics/courses/j...-and-after

No, specifically for the BA Psych, so it didn't fulfill my PSY-2110 degree requirement. It ended up as an AOS elective, which is not the worst thing in the entire world, but means I need to take a basically identical dev psych class somewhere else for the credit. It'd presumably fill any nonspecific social science spot somewhere else, but given the course's serious and constant errors, would be a poor choice for something like that -- I only sat through it for the shot at an AOS core class.

[LevelUP]

I was curious what Lifespan Development transfers as and if it will meet the social science GE requirement.

Also, maybe Business Ethics will meet the social science requirement as well?

Frustratingly, it turned out to be PSY-1999, and appeal was rejected. So...don't do Lifespan Development.

Looks like the Sophia Lifespan Development will transfer into the Social Sciences section.

"The Sophia course, Lifespan Development, will transfer as PSY-1999, Special Topics in Psychology, until 9/30/26. It will apply to the Social Sciences section in general education."

I'm assuming the quoted part is from TESU advising.

[faptaincrunch]

My program eval came back from TESU and Lifespan Dev did in fact satisfy my Social Sciences requirement.

Social Sciences 3SH Featured Course(s): AOJ-1020 Introduction to Criminal Justice; SOS-1500 Self Assessment & Career Exploration
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Credit details for Social Sciences 3SH Featured Course(s): AOJ-1020 Introduction to Criminal Justice; SOS-1500 Self Assessment & Career Exploration
Status Course
Grade Term Credits
Noncourse Equivalency PSY-1999 Special Topics in Psychology CR 3

[bjcheung77]

Great stuff! Exactly what I thought earlier...

[vaticidalprophet]

Great stuff! Exactly what I thought earlier...

Yes, but it won't fill the actual Developmental Psychology degree requirement for the BA in Psychology, which is closer to what it's advertised as (Sophia Intro Psych itself would suffice for PSY-1999).

I want to emphasize just how bad a lot of the course content is. Saylor Intro Psych (which is identical to Lifespan Development at a couple points, because they use some of the same textbooks) is significantly more accurate and has on-average more competent question construction, and Saylor has a deserved reputation for errors and bizarre questions.