BOG Pierpont Advice

[00u00u00]

Hi, I'm following the guide on the Wiki using sophia. I originally wanted to go to WGU but I'm not entirely sure if I want my bachelor's yet. I've gotten my Google IT Certificate, and finished the Visual Communications course in Sophia. Is it possible to avoid all touchstones and get the degree with Pierpont? I know I'd need the graded RA credit, which I plan on getting with ASU at some point. However, I have 3.00 credits that were pass/fail from a previous attempt at college for Quantitative Reasoning. If I do Environmental Science, and use the 3 I have from my local CC will that count as 6 full credits in math/science? And can I just do Visual Communications only to satisfy the Communications credit?

[slaterjack]

I've been working on it as well and just finished with 66 credits by doing the 12 credit Google IT Cert (free TADA), ASU 1 credit CIS 194 course (25 dollars), 3 credits from CSM Learners High Performance Course (39 dollars) ,and the rest in 1 month of Sophia. I ended up doing 19 courses I believe on Sophia just busting my a$$ for 30 days straight. I will find out this week if I am completely done. If they accept everything I have done I will post my list of courses I personally took as soon as I know for sure but I didn't do 1 touchstone as of yet.

[dfrecore]

I think that you must take English Comp I as one of your Communications credits, and then the other can be any communications course.

[rachel83az]

It's unclear whether you need English Comp I specifically or not. IIRC, at least one student has obtained a Pierpont degree without any English Comp at all. If you want to try to avoid Touchstones as much as possible, I would see if Communication at Work + Visual Communication will meet the English/Communication requirements. Or Foundations of English Comp + Visual Communication. Foundations is very easy and the Touchstones are quite short.

[Carnation]

https://catalog.pierpont.edu/preview_pro...turnto=401

They list their own courses that will fulfill the required areas.
If you choose a similar course, you will be good to go.

And yes, you can earn it without completing English Composition.
Just make sure it is labelled Communication.
Speech Communication, Interpersonal Communication, etc.

If you don't like the way Sophia does their courses, you may want to try Study.com.
You watch a video and take a quiz. At the end, you take a final exam (upper level courses require papers and projects).

[rachel83az]

The list that Pierpont has on their own site is narrower than what Ms. Parks will actually accept as being valid. It's a good starting point, but but don't necessarily think that you MUST use only the courses they have listed.

[uncapentin]

It's unclear whether you need English Comp I specifically or not. IIRC, at least one student has obtained a Pierpont degree without any English Comp at all. If you want to try to avoid Touchstones as much as possible, I would see if Communication at Work + Visual Communication will meet the English/Communication requirements. Or Foundations of English Comp + Visual Communication. Foundations is very easy and the Touchstones are quite short.

 Do you know if anyone has used Foundations of English Comp to fulfill that slot ? There's only one slot now in that category, 2 in math and/or science. In looking at what they show, it's a possible but I don't know if it would be certain. In math however, I do believe Foundations Of College Algebra will work based on one of the math's they show as accepted.

[rachel83az]

You're right. I keep forgetting that it's only 3 credits of English/Communications, not 6. But before they changed it, I'm pretty sure at least one student used Foundations of English Comp.

[uncapentin]

You're right. I keep forgetting that it's only 3 credits of English/Communications, not 6. But before they changed it, I'm pretty sure at least one student used Foundations of English Comp.

 Oh I hope so, that would help my son. And I get it....I looked at their webpage outline for this degree, then turned around and was using an old degree plan layout with the previous requirements. It took me 20 minutes to realize what I was doing. I threw it away so I wouldn't screw up a plan again. LOL

[nyjosh]

You don't need English Comp. Here is what I transferred in from Sophia and this covered everything except the RA with ASU:

BUSN 1102 Introduction to Business CR 3.000
 
ECON 2201 Economic Principles & Probs I CR 3.000

ECON 2202 Economic Prin & Problems II CR 3.000
 
FREL 1999 Developing Effective Teams CR 1.000
 
FREL 1999 Essentials Managing Conflict CR 1.000
 
FREL 1999 Art History I CR 3.000
 
FREL 1999 Art History II CR 3.000
 
FREL 1999 College Readiness CR 3.000
 
FREL 1999 Communication at Work CR 3.000
 
FREL 1999 Conflict Resolution CR 3.000
 
FREL 1999 Environmental Science CR 3.000
 
FREL 1999 Intro Information Technology CR 3.000
 
FREL 1999 Introduction to Web Developmen CR 3.000

FREL 1999 Visual Communications CR 3.000
 
FREL 1999 Google Data Analytics Certific CR 12.000
 
HST 1101 United States History I CR 3.000
 
HST 1102 United States History II CR 3.000
 
INFO 1999 Google IT: Computer Networking CR 3.000

INFO 1999 Google IT: Cybersecurity Fund CR 3.000

INFO 1999 Google IT: Computer Info Sys CR 6.000

MTH 1212 College Algebra CR 3.000