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Excelsior BS Liberal Arts degree question - staxchips1 - 04-11-2020
I am currently doing free Sophia courses.
So far, I still need:
18 "Applied Professional Electives"
15 "Upper Level Arts and Science Electives"
9 "Arts and Sciences Electives"
Which free courses on Sophia would satisfy these categories?
Thank you!
RE: Excelsior BS Liberal Arts degree question - P226mem - 04-11-2020
for Excelsior and sophia, here is link to transfer guide https://excelsior.sophia.org/
None of sophia courses are upper level. bummer.
arts electives should be in the "humanities" listing
science: in math and science (of course)
and some of them are listed as professional electives, but I'm giving an incomplete answer about that.
RE: Excelsior BS Liberal Arts degree question - bjcheung77 - 04-11-2020
staxchips1, you need to work on courses you haven't taken yet, so if you've taken something with a very similar name to what Sophia.org is offering, skip it. Otherwise, all the courses including the 3 foundations Eng, College Algebra, Stats courses will transfer to Excelsior.
18 "Applied Professional Electives" - It's actually "Applied AND Arts & Sciences", so it can be anything here including business.
15 "Upper Level Arts and Science Electives" - Your best bet is the Study.com courses, nothing at Sophia.org is Upper Level
9 "Arts and Sciences Electives" - Any Gen Ed - arts & science courses you haven't taken yet, see the link above.
RE: Excelsior BS Liberal Arts degree question - Michelle779 - 06-24-2020
(04-11-2020, 07:37 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: staxchips1, you need to work on courses you haven't taken yet, so if you've taken something with a very similar name to what Sophia.org is offering, skip it. Otherwise, all the courses including the 3 foundations Eng, College Algebra, Stats courses will transfer to Excelsior.EC has stopped taking Foundations of Algebra, if they ever took it to begin with.
18 "Applied Professional Electives" - It's actually "Applied AND Arts & Sciences", so it can be anything here including business.
15 "Upper Level Arts and Science Electives" - Your best bet is the Study.com courses, nothing at Sophia.org is Upper Level
9 "Arts and Sciences Electives" - Any Gen Ed - arts & science courses you haven't taken yet, see the link above.
In my latest evaluation it was rejected. So now I have to suffer through College Algebra.
RE: Excelsior BS Liberal Arts degree question - rachel83az - 06-24-2020
(06-24-2020, 12:06 PM)Michelle779 Wrote: EC has stopped taking Foundations of Algebra, if they ever took it to begin with.
In my latest evaluation it was rejected. So now I have to suffer through College Algebra.
If you took Sophia's Foundations of Algebra, you should have a relatively easy time with Sophia's algebra. They're pretty similar and they go over a lot of the same things, except now it's stuff like 1 + X = 3 instead of 1 + 2 = 3. It's not a great course if you're intending to move on to higher math later, but when all you need is algebra then it works quite well.
RE: Excelsior BS Liberal Arts degree question - Michelle779 - 06-24-2020
(06-24-2020, 12:20 PM)rachel83az Wrote:(06-24-2020, 12:06 PM)Michelle779 Wrote: EC has stopped taking Foundations of Algebra, if they ever took it to begin with.
In my latest evaluation it was rejected. So now I have to suffer through College Algebra.
If you took Sophia's Foundations of Algebra, you should have a relatively easy time with Sophia's algebra. They're pretty similar and they go over a lot of the same things, except now it's stuff like 1 + X = 3 instead of 1 + 2 = 3. It's not a great course if you're intending to move on to higher math later, but when all you need is algebra then it works quite well.
I barely got through the Foundations course.
I'm accessing a lot of online tutorials to help me understand it a bit better. Math is not my strong suit.
RE: Excelsior BS Liberal Arts degree question - ctcarl - 06-24-2020
(06-24-2020, 12:20 PM)rachel83az Wrote:(06-24-2020, 12:06 PM)Michelle779 Wrote: EC has stopped taking Foundations of Algebra, if they ever took it to begin with.
In my latest evaluation it was rejected. So now I have to suffer through College Algebra.
If you took Sophia's Foundations of Algebra, you should have a relatively easy time with Sophia's algebra. They're pretty similar and they go over a lot of the same things, except now it's stuff like 1 + X = 3 instead of 1 + 2 = 3. It's not a great course if you're intending to move on to higher math later, but when all you need is algebra then it works quite well.
Agree 100%. I have always been terrible at math and wound up in the degree program I'm in because they didn't have a math requirement, just a math/humanities requirement which I was able to satisfy with Sophia courses.
But when the free promo started, I ended up taking both Foundations of College Algebra and College Algebra, because why not? In any case, Rachel's comments about those two courses are right on the money.
RE: Excelsior BS Liberal Arts degree question - SkaroFamily - 12-13-2020
Does anyone know if you can take the Statistics class and have it cover the math component for Excelsior? Looking at both the 2 and 3 credit statistics class.
RE: Excelsior BS Liberal Arts degree question - BSBRose21 - 12-16-2020
(06-24-2020, 02:53 PM)ctcarl Wrote:I agree about the two Sophia algebra courses. They seem to be similar in difficulty.(06-24-2020, 12:20 PM)rachel83az Wrote:(06-24-2020, 12:06 PM)Michelle779 Wrote: EC has stopped taking Foundations of Algebra, if they ever took it to begin with.
In my latest evaluation it was rejected. So now I have to suffer through College Algebra.
If you took Sophia's Foundations of Algebra, you should have a relatively easy time with Sophia's algebra. They're pretty similar and they go over a lot of the same things, except now it's stuff like 1 + X = 3 instead of 1 + 2 = 3. It's not a great course if you're intending to move on to higher math later, but when all you need is algebra then it works quite well.
Agree 100%. I have always been terrible at math and wound up in the degree program I'm in because they didn't have a math requirement, just a math/humanities requirement which I was able to satisfy with Sophia courses.
But when the free promo started, I ended up taking both Foundations of College Algebra and College Algebra, because why not? In any case, Rachel's comments about those two courses are right on the money.