Requiring a bachelors to keep my job! Back to school at 53!

[rachel83az]

Quick question as I work through all of the above suggestions - does the Google certification "Foundations of Digital Marketing and E-commerce" count toward any credits other than the possible BOG Area of Emphasis?

Yes, it counts for 9 marketing credits at UMPI: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Coursera

[bjcheung77]

Actually... the "Foundations" is not worth any credit at all. It's part of the Coursera/TADA offering, you can't get credit for a portion, it has to be the entire set of courses in each certificate.

[rachel83az]

You're right; I missed that it wasn't the whole certificate. It needs to be the whole certificate with all courses completed.

[mohelena02]

I would literally stop everything you're doing that isn't earning college credits, and get that UMPI BLS degree.  Apply, send in your transcripts.  Start taking courses at Sophia tomorrow.

Sophia
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Human Biology w/Lab
Environmental Science
Intro to Ethics
US Government
1 easy elective course (Intro to IT would be very easy for you)
Business Communication will free up a space for more UL if you want, but not necessary

That leaves 30cr at UMPI, all in the major and Free electives area.  You could opt for Project Management and/or Management (lots of overlap there if you want both).

I'll be you could be done by mid-March of next year.

I agree with this post! Stop everything you're doing, get on Sophia. Apply to Pierpont, apply to UMPI.

You're not in TX by chance? TAMUC is a good priced degree.

[teacher2mykids]

I just wanted to give you guys an update on how things are going with the degrees... I think about all of you often and how amazing this site is as a resource, how much you've helped me AND you do it for free! You all are truly awesome!!

#1 - I have enrolled, been accepted and sent all my transcripts to Pierpont. I have chatted via email with Nancy Parks. I am thinking I might have the BOG associate by December graduation. It really depends on how fast the department gets it processed at this point because I've also enrolled in Sophia and sent Intro to IT and Environmental Science so that should be everything I need for that degree.

#2 - I have enrolled, been accepted and sent all my transcripts to UMPI. I have talked with them and they are "holding" my transcripts until I wrap up Pierpont. I have finished Human Biology and halfway through Human Biology Lab from Sophia. I don't want to start UMPI classes until I can devote all my time and energy to those 30cr that are required at UMPI which looks like it will be starting January 2024.

I have decided to pursue the Bachelors of English with Journalism and Communication emphasis. It might not be the fastest route but it's the one I want so I'm going to go that direction at this time.

#3 - I am on the 4th of 7 of the certifications for a Google Digital Marketing certification. I have also finished Jobprepped certification and am working on the portfolio for that at this time.

Question: The Google certification will give me marketing credits, correct? How do I "prove" to the colleges I am certified? Just send them the verified certificate? Who should I send that too, Pierpont, UMPI or both? I don't know if the Jobprepped course can be used for anything but it was a very in-depth digital marketing course. (more so than the Google one, in my opinion.)

So given the above advice in this post, my next classes from Sophia would be:
Algebra
Intro to Ethics
US Government
Business Communication

What do you think?
Am I missing anything?
Taking something I don't need?
What about statistics?

Any and all advice appreciated. Again, I COULD NOT have done this without you guys here at degree forum! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[rachel83az]

For the Google certificates, you get credit by claiming a digital badge on Credly. It's almost the same as how you get the Sophia credits. I wouldn't bother sending it to Pierpont at this point, not unless you get pushed back to the spring graduation. Send it to just UMPI.

For an English degree at UMPI, it's possible your Survey of Math class will count for the math requirement. But you can go ahead and do Algebra to be safe. Ethics, yes. US Government, yes. Business Communication, yes.

I think you might need Visual Communications? It's pretty short/easy, so you might as well. "Listening to Music" should work for 2E - Knowledge of arts & literature, but you could also take Art History I/II if you want. Other than that, it looks like you've got the GEC requirements pretty well set.

If you want (or have time) to take more before enrolling at UMPI, check out https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/So...lency_List for Sophia courses that have 2 or fewer Touchstones. I would recommend Personal Finance. It's got a lot of good information in it.

[bjcheung77]

Complete everything from Sophia.org and your Coursera/TADA certificates, add all of them to your Credly, send transcripts to Pierpont and UMPI, wait for evaluation...