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alissaroot Wrote:A lot of specific majors at EC and TESC already require a capstone course, and COSC already requires a capstone for all their degrees, too. I sorta thought something like this would happen after COSC started a capstone requirement and TESC upped their upper-level requirement. Things are getting a bit less lenient overall.
I don't think it's all that bad, although no one will be able to 100% test out of a degree, we're only talking about one online or distance-learning class, which is still amazing. A 3-credit residency is still so much better than a 30 (or more) credit residency. You could still test out of and transfer 116 credits into a degree (subtracting info lit which barely qualifies as a course anyway). The Big Three will still be easier to work with alternative credit than 3000 other schools in the country.
You can transfer in info lit (i.e. PFC) too.
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BrandeX Wrote:You can transfer in info lit (i.e. PFC) too.
Since it's technically a course and not an equivalency exam, I subtracted it from the total numbers of credits a person could potentially test out of, not transfer, which is what I intended. I'm sorry I used the wrong term,
transfer instead of
test out, and thank you for pointing out my error.
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NAP Wrote:If I remember correctly, Historiography is the capstone course for the History Major. If this is true and since you have taken it already, consider checking into whether the new capstone requirement would even apply to you. In other words, you may have already met it. (We still do not know what the policy is or how it works.)
Again, please be very careful about this. I don't want you to be told you are okay now and then later that you still need a capstone course!
cool thanks. I'm probably going to re-enroll just to be safe though. I'll just buckle down and try to finish it in a year.
completed: A.A.S. (Computer Tech.) from Excelsior 03-19-10
completed: B.S.L.S. (History) from excelsior 02-18-11
B&M: 58 credits
excelsior courses: [10 credits] 09-08-09 Info Lit. (P); 09-08-09 Historiography (A); 11-02-09 US Foreign Affairs since 1898 (A); 07-06-10 Middle East (B);
CLEP: [30 credits] 09-25-09 US History I (69); 11-06-09 US History II (66); 11-06-09 A&I Lit (73); 02-19-10 West. Civ II (70); 03-30-10 West. Civ I (72); 04-16-10 Intro. Edu Psych (70);
.Clep: 06-18-10 Principles of Marketing (73); 12-09-10 Social Sci. & History (74);
ECE: [12 credits] 05-01-10 Abnormal Psychology (B); 05-04-10 Psych. of A&A (A); 05-15-10 Gerontology ©; 06-05-10 World Population (A);
DSST: [12 credits] 07-17-10 Civil War & Recon (63); 08-14-10 Substance Abuse (444); 09-18-10 Vietnam War (66); 10-02-10 R&F Soviet Union (62);
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I do not have any details of how this will work, but I have been advised that all students will be required to complete a capstone course, if they enroll at EC on/after July 1, 2010.
I think this is currently just the Bachelor's degree level, but I read that they are making plans to add this to the Associate degree level also.
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I posted this info in another thread and thought I should add it here:
The capstone course will count toward the 30 UL credit total needed for a bachelor's degree in the school of Liberal Arts.
If you are planning to pursue a Major, the UL requirements for a Major have increased from 15 UL to 18 UL because of the new capstone course. All Liberal Arts Majors are 33 credits now (15 LL + 18UL).
I also got some extra details. In the school of Liberal Arts, all of the capstone courses count as Arts & Sciences except Criminal Justice.
A prerequisite to taking the capstone course is completing a depth. (This may be how the specific capstone course will be chosen.)
Since this is a new policy some of the details are still unclear, but it MIGHT be possible to apply the capstone course to an Area of Focus.
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