The Harvard Extension School

[cookderosa]

I talked to an Enrollment Advisor at Harvard Extension yesterday, and he gave me some great tips on what to do next. I just need to line up some financing now for the first three courses.

Pull up the pdf file for the degree you want to work on and start using the archives to find courses that meet each requirement. BE SURE to double check that you'll be able to complete them. For instance, if you were doing biology (which is what I was working on) you'd have to take a field course. Here's the thing, field courses are not offered in the summer, online, or Jan session....full semester only. That's a problem for me. Also, you have to be sure that ONLINE OPTION classes don't exceed the new guidelines. It doesn't even matter if you take the class on campus, if it has an online option, it counts toward online- so again, be sure you can do what you need to do in the location you can. Finally, the sequence can make you crazy. Proseminar has to fit in front of enrollment. My degree plan, had I gone forward, would have required 1 summer + 1 full semester on campus. If I opted to switch to History of Science and Medicine, I could have done it in 1 summer on campus. I still might someday when my family has no memory of the time and money I spent on my last degree!

EDIT: someone in an earlier thread suggested 3 summer classes at one time, but I'm 99% sure they still cap you at 8 credits which is either 1 science or 2 non-science in a summer session, making that suggestion non-viable. Summer session is the only session that allows you to stay on campus, but depending on your location, you could commute. Trains, planes and automobiles are all options.