Study.com alternatives for TECEP Advertising and Marketing Communications?

[nerd]

Hi! So for silly reasons I decided earlier to switch out two of my courses for TECEP Marketing Communications and TECEP Advertising. Unfortunately I don't think this format works very well for me. (Self-studying for a test with a textbook has never been my strong point). What Study.com courses can replace these two TECEPs in a TESU General Management degree plan?

I've attached my existing degree plan for reference. Sorry for the weird format it has right now; those red lines through a course mean that it's done.

[dfrecore]

I didn't look at your degree plan, just copying some info here from a list I have of Study.com Marketing courses:

MARKETING 301: Marketing Research
BUSINESS 309: Digital Marketing & Advertising (MAR-441)
MARKETING 302: Consumer Behavior
MARKETING 303: Global Marketing
MARKETING 306: Principles of Selling
MARKETING 308: Applied Marketing
BUSINESS 327: Retail Strategy
HOSPITALITY 301: Hospitality Marketing (HMM-316)

I don't have equivalencies for most of these, so if you get any, please report back. You can cut and paste the list and send it to TESU for pre-approval. They should give you equivalencies, as well as whether or not they will accept the course towards the marketing AOS.

[nerd]

Sorry, I’m a little confused. Should I send an email to TESU asking which of those Study.com courses they accept? Because I’m trying to do more Study.com courses, not less.

I have sent an email to TESU’s Academic Advsing email asking what Study.com courses would fill the spots the Advertising TECEP and the Marketing Communications TECEP currently have on my degree plan. Though I’ve never emailed them before, so we’ll see how that goes,

[dfrecore]

Sorry, I’m a little confused. Should I send an email to TESU asking which of those Study.com courses they accept? Because I’m trying to do more Study.com courses, not less.

I have sent an email to TESU’s Academic Advsing email asking what Study.com courses would fill the spots the Advertising TECEP and the Marketing Communications TECEP currently have on my degree plan. Though I’ve never emailed them before, so we’ll see how that goes,

You definitely do NOT ask which courses will fill the spots.  They will NOT be helpful.  You have to be very specific with TESU and ask questions in a certain way, or they won't answer them correctly.

Instead, just send the list and ask for course equivalencies, and if they will work in the Marketing AOS.

[Excellente]

DS took  BUSINESS 309: Digital Marketing & Advertising (MAR-441) for his BSBA General Management at TESU. It is accepted ad applied to his degree-plan. There is a thread on this forum that discusses BUS309. The assignment seems a big deal but don't overthink it. Just fulfill the rubric and requirements and you're good. Not difficult to pass. 

[icampy]

Ive been wondering about the hospitality courses as GM electives.

[nerd]

Sorry, I’m a little confused. Should I send an email to TESU asking which of those Study.com courses they accept? Because I’m trying to do more Study.com courses, not less.

I have sent an email to TESU’s Academic Advsing email asking what Study.com courses would fill the spots the Advertising TECEP and the Marketing Communications TECEP currently have on my degree plan. Though I’ve never emailed them before, so we’ll see how that goes,

You definitely do NOT ask which courses will fill the spots.  They will NOT be helpful.  You have to be very specific with TESU and ask questions in a certain way, or they won't answer them correctly.

Instead, just send the list and ask for course equivalencies, and if they will work in the Marketing AOS.

Okay, I just sent them a new email.

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Here’s their reply:

“Only four of the Study.com courses listed in your message are acceptable in transfer and will apply to the Marketing area of study, if you change your degree to the BSBA in Marketing. Currently, your active degree is the BSBA in General Management.

The others cannot be accepted because they aren't listed on the Study.com Transfer Guide: https://study.com/directory/school/Thoma...ransferTab

The following are approved:
Business 309 Digital Marketing & Advertising
Marketing 301 Marketing Research
Marketing 308 Applied Marketing
Hospitality 301 Hospitality Marketing”

[dfrecore]

Sorry, I’m a little confused. Should I send an email to TESU asking which of those Study.com courses they accept? Because I’m trying to do more Study.com courses, not less.

I have sent an email to TESU’s Academic Advsing email asking what Study.com courses would fill the spots the Advertising TECEP and the Marketing Communications TECEP currently have on my degree plan. Though I’ve never emailed them before, so we’ll see how that goes,

You definitely do NOT ask which courses will fill the spots.  They will NOT be helpful.  You have to be very specific with TESU and ask questions in a certain way, or they won't answer them correctly.

Instead, just send the list and ask for course equivalencies, and if they will work in the Marketing AOS.

Okay, I just sent them a new email.

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Here’s their reply:

“Only four of the Study.com courses listed in your message are acceptable in transfer and will apply to the Marketing area of study, if you change your degree to the BSBA in Marketing. Currently, your active degree is the BSBA in General Management.

The others cannot be accepted because they aren't listed on the Study.com Transfer Guide: https://study.com/directory/school/Thoma...ransferTab

The following are approved:
Business 309 Digital Marketing & Advertising
Marketing 301 Marketing Research
Marketing 308 Applied Marketing
Hospitality 301 Hospitality Marketing”

I am getting SO tired of this reply.  TESU will take any course that's ACE or NCCRS approved, they just haven't evaluated all of Study.com's courses because some are new.

I would ask again.  They will DEFINITELY take them, but it's just a matter of where you can bring them in.

If academic advising won't give you an answer, it might be good to ask another department, or escalate this.  It's at the point where someone needs to take this up to a dean or something, because the answer they give here is completely incorrect.

[jsd]

... Unless they're making a really, really stupid change in the policy.

[dfrecore]

... Unless they're making a really, really stupid change in the policy.

They've been saying this for ages, and it's just not the case.  They've never done a formal eval of all of the course providers, yet you can bring in courses from all kinds of places.  TEEX, The Institutes, NFA, Shmoop (previously), ACTFL, Ed4Credit, Coopersmith.

It's just for some reason, someone got some wrong info in their heads and sent that out to everyone in Academic Advising, not the brightest in the college in the first place, and that has perpetuated.

They did an eval of Study.com ages ago (18 months maybe) when they did the affiliated member agreement.  THEN, they did another one in December, but it was just a rehash of the courses they'd already looked at (and they alignned more closely with ACE).  Since the initial review, they haven't evaluated more courses, even though Study.com has added about 100 courses to the list, including changing LL's to UL.