07-15-2014, 05:17 PM
Still studying. But have been trying to dig out more information and get a plan going.
I did manage to get a hold of a few advisers over at TESC. They wouldn't really give me any official statement on the matter, but they did at least give a sort of confirming insight on a few things.
If I take a AS in programming at the local CC about 42 credits of it is programming and databases. Another 6 credits is an Intenship / Intro to Computers. The BA:Computer Science degree at TESC is 33 credits of Computer science (18 UL), 60 credits GE core with 18 Electives, and then 27 Free Electives.
The advisers were leaning towards the programming courses possibly being used for the 15 LL credits in the topic of study. Things like Intro to Programming in the AS course might be transferred in as Intro to Computer Science. One of them hinted that there is a small chance that a course could be considered for UL credit even if it were from a CC if the course description matched up enough but that the chance of that happening was very negligible and not something that I should hope for. They said any of the programming credits that were extra from topic of study would then go into General Education as Natural Science, and then into General Electives (as natural science), and lastly Free Electives.
Unfortunately nothing official could be said about it because they won't really work with anyone unless they've formally applied and have transcripts in hand, which I do not.
If it did actually work out that way though, those credits could at least go a fair ways. I'm not sure that it would though but something for me to keep in mind.
On the 'traditional uni' front. It's looking like it would be a very difficult battle to get into the local state unis here for comp sci because even at the liberal arts level it seems that it's considered an engineering degree. I'd have to have Calc 1, 2, 3 with labs (must be graded), Physics 1 & 2 with calc and lab (must be graded), and 2 units of Foreign Language. Plus a few CS courses, in addition to the rest of the general AA requirements.
I did manage to get a hold of a few advisers over at TESC. They wouldn't really give me any official statement on the matter, but they did at least give a sort of confirming insight on a few things.
If I take a AS in programming at the local CC about 42 credits of it is programming and databases. Another 6 credits is an Intenship / Intro to Computers. The BA:Computer Science degree at TESC is 33 credits of Computer science (18 UL), 60 credits GE core with 18 Electives, and then 27 Free Electives.
The advisers were leaning towards the programming courses possibly being used for the 15 LL credits in the topic of study. Things like Intro to Programming in the AS course might be transferred in as Intro to Computer Science. One of them hinted that there is a small chance that a course could be considered for UL credit even if it were from a CC if the course description matched up enough but that the chance of that happening was very negligible and not something that I should hope for. They said any of the programming credits that were extra from topic of study would then go into General Education as Natural Science, and then into General Electives (as natural science), and lastly Free Electives.
Unfortunately nothing official could be said about it because they won't really work with anyone unless they've formally applied and have transcripts in hand, which I do not.
If it did actually work out that way though, those credits could at least go a fair ways. I'm not sure that it would though but something for me to keep in mind.
On the 'traditional uni' front. It's looking like it would be a very difficult battle to get into the local state unis here for comp sci because even at the liberal arts level it seems that it's considered an engineering degree. I'd have to have Calc 1, 2, 3 with labs (must be graded), Physics 1 & 2 with calc and lab (must be graded), and 2 units of Foreign Language. Plus a few CS courses, in addition to the rest of the general AA requirements.
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