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degree plan help again please - xjarhead1999 - 07-27-2018
Between Patten shutting down, TESU shunning shmoop, and a few other things, I am back to not having any clue or degree plan. Im sitting here with around 100 undergraduate credits and no freaking clue what to do now. I feel like I have been chasing my tail and wasting time this year. All degree plans I had are useless now. Could someone please help me with some options of degrees and where I can best utilize what I have?
I am at a point that any bachelors that will allow me into a Masters program will work. A bachelors in business would be better as my work seems to think that is the only important bachelors there is but if I can get into a masters then it won't matter.
Here is what I have completed so far
WIU
COM 110 Effective Persuasive Writing
IT 101 Skills for learning in an Information Age
COM 112 Utilising Information in College Writing
CRT 201 Critical Thinking
Ashford University
EXP 105 Personal Dimensions of Education
ENG 125 Introduction to Literature
ALEKS
College Algebra
Institutes
Ethics Course
Sophia
Developing Effective Teams
Foundations of College Algebra
Foundations of Statistics
The Essentials of Managing Conflict
TEEX
Cyber Security for Business Professionals
Cyber Security for Everyone
Cyber Security for IT Professionals
Study.com
Business 104: Information Systems and Computer Applications
Finance 102: Personal Finance
History 108: History of the Vietnam War
Library Science 101: Information Literacy
Political Science 102: American Government
Religion 101: Intro to World Religions
Shmoop
Business Communication
Economics 101
Film Studies
History of Technology
Human Sexuality
Introduction to Art History
Introduction to Biology
Introduction to Marketing
Introduction to Physics
Media Literacy
Pre-Algebra I
Pre-Algebra II
Principles of Finance
Principles of Management
Professional Writing
The Bible as Literature
My military credits seem to be treated differently depending where I go. Some just give me 10 credits while others break them down. This is the breakdown of what Pierpont did.
MILT 1998 Marksmanship 2 CR
MILT 1998 Physical Fit. & Conditioning 1 CR
MILT 1998 Orienteering/Outdoor Skills 1 CR
MILT 1998 Personal Finance 1 CR
MILT 1998 Supervisory Mgmt 1 CR
MILT 1998 Introduction to Terrorism 1 CR
MILT 1998 Instructonal Methodology 3 CR
The following courses I have completed but just haven't taken the final exams on yet. Not sure which ones I should finish or just forget about.
Straighterline
Accounting 1
Accounting 2
Business Law
Business Ethics
Study.com (don't have a current subscription, all are complete minus proctored final)
Business 109: Intro to Computing
Communications 120: Presentation Skills in the Workplace
Computer Science 102: Fundamentals of Information Technology
Computer Science 103: Computer Concepts & Applications
Business 106: Human Resource Management
Business 312: Advanced Operations Management
Shmoop (not sure if I even want to go back and pay the $25 proctor fees for these as some I was just taking for the fun of it)
Drugs in literature
Geometry
Foundations of Education
Modernist Literature
Shakespeare's Plays
Holocaust Literature
Victorian Literature
Shakespeare in Context
Accounting 101: Financial Accounting
Journalism 101
Pop Culture Literacy
Introduction to E-Commerce
I will have the BOG degree from Pierpont if that can help anywhere also.
Anyone see anything?
RE: degree plan help again please - dfrecore - 07-27-2018
I would finish your SL courses ASAP, since those 4 courses are required in ALL business degrees I've seen. The Business Ethics course will duplicate the free Ethics course at TESU, so that one is up to you.
Then, apply to COSC, EC & WGU. I don't know their degrees well enough to make plans for you, but they are much faster than TESU at producing evals, so at least you'll know where you stand with all of them.
I am going to guess that WGU might be fastest for you, since you don't have a lot of UL credits, but I'm not sure.
Once you get back your evals, you can post them here and ask for help in determining which will be the best for you.
RE: degree plan help again please - davewill - 07-30-2018
I'd do as dfrecore suggests, but many of your Shmoop credits aren't all that useful for a BSBA anyway, so you should chart your path forward with TESU as an option as well. I know you're disappointed, but you can let that get you down, or you can just pick yourself up and soldier on (should be familiar to an ex-jarhead). Sometimes people get so fixed on using every credit they have, that they lose sight of the final goal, which is graduating.
RE: degree plan help again please - armstrongsubero - 07-30-2018
So sad man. Keep strong. Apply to all three and see which one will give you the most credits. Though I feel COSC is the best option with all the Shmoop TESU isnt taking. You could do the "individualized studies" option with "Business and Liberal Arts" as the major or something.
The best advice I think I got on this forum is enroll and lock your credits ASAP I cant remember where I read that but it was the best advice cause lately the Big 3 have been changing a lot its not to late man apply to COSC cause right now they take shmoop and see what they say, cut your losses and gradaute.
Come on you can do it!! Dont give up!!