For Harvard Extension School, do you take the admissions requirement courses first?

[cookderosa]

For anyone interested, there is an edX Poetry Whitman course (free) you can take with the same instructor. I'm working through it now to get my feet wet.
HarvardX: AmPoX.3
Poetry in America: Whitman

I've taken grad courses (3) at HES but they are too old to use toward a degree. They do fall off, however, if you don't need a degree, it doesn't matter. In my case, I did think I was going to pursue a degree when I started. The first courses I took were Psychology and Statistics because my TESU degree was in Social Science and I thought I might go that direction. The classes were perfect in every aspect, but psychology as a career in the counseling/helping wasn't for me, so I let that go. Later, I took a course in Biology because I worked my way through the pre-nursing/pre-med sciences and I strongly weighed my options for nursing/medicine - and also, the course was perfect - engaging, tough, interesting, a "dig deep" kind of thing. I used my sciences as the prereqs for a nutrition master instead, pulling from my background and staying in my field.

I didn't have the resources to pay cash- something you have to do if you're not an enrolled degree-seeking student. For the poetry set, I do have the resources to pay cash, so I'm getting after it.

Part 2, I wasn't able to leave my family for the full semester on campus requirement that is part of the psychology/biology degree tracks. English is different because my cursory research shows the potential of doing the on campus courses over several learning weekends. Weekends I can do. Nevermind that my kids are older now, it's just less logistics and cost to figure out. Further, there are at least 3 here doing these courses, plus another 3 in my homeschooling facebook community, so I'll in a cohort with 6 other people. The "go alone" factor would be somewhat mitigated by knowing my peeps will also be there. Sounds fun to me actually.

So, I think I can say that I'm going to do all 4-5 of these at $200 if only for the fact that it adds a teaching block for me (ENG teachers at the community college = insane demand) and I'm not ruling out the proseminar this spring because it is live online with 1 learning weekend. (full price) and that's one of the degree requirements for this degree. In other degrees, there are still barriers and a full semester courses - though I haven't looked through them all.

PS In my past courses, the professor required students living within a X-State area to come to campus for midterm/final. It might have been 4-5 state area, I don't recall. I was in Illinois, and secured a local proctor through my community college at no charge for my mid/finals. For this class, it looks like we don't have any proctored exams, just writing.