TEEK Cybersecurity Courses Still Worth Doing

[dfrecore]

So, TEEX courses fit in degree plans as free electives?

CIS-244 is considered a Gen Ed, so will fit there if you need 2cr there. The other 2 are Free Electives.

[tomcashman]

CIS-244 is considered a Gen Ed, so will fit there if you need 2cr there. The other 2 are Free Electives.

I planned on taking TEEX as GE electives, while planning DSST-Cybersecurity. To be safe, I checked with HQ and this was the response:


"The TEEX course, Cybersecurity for Business Professionals, will transfer over as CIS-344 (2 credits) and has the potential to apply towards general education. However, if you intend to take the DSST exam, Cybersecurity, it will duplicate this particular TEEX option. Additionally, the other TEEX courses do not apply towards general education.

In short, you should not attempt any of the TEEX courses as they will not benefit you."

I did use them to study for the DSST and passed, so all was not lost!

[sanantone]

I was also told that the other two TEEX courses have the CAP prefix, so they won't count as natural sciences.

[dfrecore]

I planned on taking TEEX as GE electives, while planning DSST-Cybersecurity. To be safe, I checked with HQ and this was the response:


"The TEEX course, Cybersecurity for Business Professionals, will transfer over as CIS-344 (2 credits) and has the potential to apply towards general education. However, if you intend to take the DSST exam, Cybersecurity, it will duplicate this particular TEEX option. Additionally, the other TEEX courses do not apply towards general education.

In short, you should not attempt any of the TEEX courses as they will not benefit you."

I did use them to study for the DSST and passed, so all was not lost!

Well, for some crazy reason, TESU used to have that course as CIS-344, then a few months ago, they switched it to CIS-244, and just recently it's back to CIS-344. I can't figure out why they would have it as UL in the first place.

I cannot figure out what they're doing or why. But, of course, this is nothing new with TESU. Nobody knows what they're doing over there, or why they're doing it, even the people that are deciding to do these things.

[sanantone]

Cybersecurity for IT Professionals was the one that was originally CIS-344. Cybersecurity for Business Professionals had a generic course code. CIS 244 is Network Security, which would be an inaccurate label for the business course.

[EllisGrant]

I'm confused about the TEEX courses, I am under the 2015 BSBA catalog so maybe (hopefully) that is where my confusion is coming from. Under business electives I see:
"Business Electives (9sh)
Complete 9 sh from accounting, banking, business, computer applications, computer information systems, finance, management, hotel/motel/restaurant management, insurance, operations management, public administration, real
estate state, law, marketing, and retailing management, fundraising. "


Since they are CAP and CIS credits it seems to me that they would fit. Am I missing something?

Ellis

[sanantone]

They should work as business electives.

[dfrecore]

They should work as business electives.

2015 was the last year they had a Business Electives section, so it's (mostly) assumed that people are working under a more current catalog.

[Turkish]

Thank you for explaining this. I just sat the MIS and Cybersecurity DSST's yesterday and was trying to figure out why I have the DSST MIS and the TEEX course listed separately in my TESU degree plan while everywhere I read that they duplicate. I guess I got lucky and added it to my degree plan while the course codes were briefly different. I wonder if they'll change that when my DSST scores come in?

Well, for some crazy reason, TESU used to have that course as CIS-344, then a few months ago, they switched it to CIS-244, and just recently it's back to CIS-344. I can't figure out why they would have it as UL in the first place.

I cannot figure out what they're doing or why. But, of course, this is nothing new with TESU. Nobody knows what they're doing over there, or why they're doing it, even the people that are deciding to do these things.

[dfrecore]

Thank you for explaining this. I just sat the MIS and Cybersecurity DSST's yesterday and was trying to figure out why I have the DSST MIS and the TEEX course listed separately in my TESU degree plan while everywhere I read that they duplicate. I guess I got lucky and added it to my degree plan while the course codes were briefly different. I wonder if they'll change that when my DSST scores come in?

Those have never duplicated. The TEEX course (either CIS-244 or CIS-344) may or may not duplicate the DSST Cybersecurity exam (which comes in as CIS-344), depending on what TESU's mood is the day you bring it in.