need help on finding an online history B.A. in Texas

[clep3705]

I know that some of you in Texas know more about Texas liberal arts degrees than I do and I could use your help. Here are the parameters:

1. Student has a Texas A.A. degree and is thus core complete as per Texas law, has a computer literacy course and a P.E. activity course.

2. Student has been accepted to the University of Houston for the fall, but they dropped a late surprise on us after months of asking the right questions but not being given complete answers. A history major requires 3 semester hours of a foreign language. The revised plan was to take that at a community college this summer. Then the second surprise was dropped on us. The 3 hours of foreign language has to be 2000 level. In other words, it is really 9 hours of foreign language because there are 6 hours of 1000 level prerequisites for the 2000 level course.

3. If not for the foreign language requirement, U of H would work. They don't have an online history degree per se, but they offer enough online courses that the major and the degree could be completed online because possibly as few as 33 hours are needed after factoring in transfer credits and CBE directly awarded by U of H.

4. We are looking for a state supported university in Texas that offers enough online courses to grant a B.A. in history. Schools with liberal CBE policies are preferred so that few, if any, CBE hours are lost.

5. The real objective here is to get into a graduate program in history, either the University of Houston in person or Sam Houston State online. The B.A. doesn't have to be in history as long as it doesn't leave the student short of what it takes to get unconditionally accepted into graduate studies in history.

6. The ideal situation would be to take 30 hours of upper level history courses and everything else be an elective.

7. Private schools, the Big Three, and out of state schools are out of scope for reasons I will not discuss.

[sanantone]

The first college I thought of was the University of Houston-Victoria. For those who might be confused, University of Houston is a university system. The main college is in Houston and there separate universities in the system with the same name and location attached to the end in Victoria, Clear Lake, and downtown Houston.
University of Houston-Victoria :: School of Arts and Sciences

I don't know if this would be of any interest, but the UT consortium offers degrees in multidisciplinary studies.
UTOC · Undergraduate Programs

They won't accept CLEP? Maybe the student can study up enough Spanish, French, or Germany to score high enough in order to earn 12 or so credits on the CLEP.

[sanantone]

UT Permian Basin offers an online degree in humanities. They consider history to be humanities.
Finish@UT - Bachelor of Arts in Humanities at The University of Texas at Permian Basin

That's all I could find. Several universities offer online degrees in general studies, university studies, interdisciplinary studies, and multidisciplinary studies.

[Yenisei]

A lot of schools will also let you take a placement test to test out of lower levels of a language, thus allowing you to jump right into intermediate or UL courses in the language. Ask the Foreign Language Department if they'll do that.

[clep3705]

I appreciate your desire to be helpful, but this student will never graduate if a language has to be taken.

[Jonathan Whatley]

Is a course in foreign literature in translation an option? I think it wouldn't be uncommon for, say, a Spanish literature in translation course to have both a Spanish course code and a level 2000 or up. If not from UH, perhaps from another school that UH would accept in transfer.

Is American Sign Language an option? It would be qualitatively different to learn than an aural/written foreign language. Braille? A course in linguistics, comparative language, language development, cross-cultural communication? Teaching English to speakers of other languages?

If learning a foreign language specifically at the 2000-level is an undue hardship, perhaps the student has a specific learning disability. Y'all might talk with these people: University of Houston Center for Students with DisABILITIES.

[croc870]

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