Taking courses at WGU not part of my degree program? And credit by examination

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I want to take them with WGU because they are competency based courses.
I already asked them if I could change my major if I wanted to later on and they said I could.

Changing majors is not a problem... people do it all the time. They just usually do it because they are unhappy with one major or because of other issues. Most people don't do it in order to take a few courses in one degree and then complete a different degree. The process is a bit cumbersome and time-consuming. I would never recommend that someone do it just to pick up a few extra courses that won't even factor into their degree.

If you want to take competency-based courses you don't have to take them at WGU. I don't know which math and science courses you want to take, but there are several competency-based options out there depending on your reasons for wanting to take the courses.

But if I changed my major, would I still have those competency units on my transcript that I got from taking those classes for if I wanted to transfer those units to another college?

If you are doing this for a graduate degree and you have a specific grad school in mind, it may be easier trying to work backward from the school's entrance requirements to figure out your best approach rather than try to switch degrees, etc.

What are you trying to do?

There are other competency-based options for these math classes but financially, the cost is an issue. As far as I know, I couldn't find competency-based or self-study options for the science courses, but if there were any available I would want to take them. I am interested physics and chemistry science courses.

I am considering going to graduate school, possibly in computer science. I am not doing this only to satisfy graduate school requirements, but I could possibly use it for that.
I am just trying to take classes that I can incorporate into a degree plan at another college such as TESU. I was looking at their BA in mathematics. I have a way to incorporate these classes into a degree plan. I could also incorporate the science ones into natural sciences major at excelsior, or liberal arts major at TESU.

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Many community colleges have those math courses. They're even offered online. I know they are offered at community colleges because my husband took Calc, Calc II, Calc III, and Diff Eq at community college. Statistics is offered by Sophia (which is free right now), StraighterLine, and Study.com. It's also available at community colleges. They may also be called technical colleges depending on your region.

They are, but I'm only interested in online offerings of the courses. I'll have to look for more online college offering of these courses, but the cost would be an issue I would have to get through. Some community colleges may offer them online.

At WGU, you do not pick which classes you take or when you take them. You're given the courses in the order to take them in. You take one course at a time. They're not going to let you enroll in a program just to take specific classes. That's not how their programs work. You don't get to skip over classes. If you want competency based math courses, then you should look for those outside of WGU. Look at Study.com and StraighterLine for starters because they do offer that stats class.

I know that I can't skip courses in their degree program if I want to graduate from that program, but I can still have flexibility in the order of courses and only take a single term to take those courses.
From talking to them, they have told me differently about the flexibility order I can take courses in. When I talked to them they did tell me that there is flexibility in my degree plan as to which courses I could take first, but I am just not sure as to how much. I would have to talk to the college more about those specific programs to ask them about what order I would be able to take the courses in to determine if I would be able to or not, but now I not completely sure.

I am wondering about how much your order of courses is planned out. When you start to register for classes in their first term, do they plan beyond the first term? I heard that you can register for more courses after the courses you registered for in the first term.