TESU / Study.com

[MrsBulletPoints]

On TESU's website in a chart showing how you can transfer 90 credits from Study.com for a BA in Liberal Studies, it lists in the 300-400 level section these Study.com courses with their corresponding TESU equivalents. Note that only one of these has a 300 level code name at either place. Yet they are all listed as fulfilling the 300-400 level requirement:

STUDY.COM ------------------------------------------  TESU
Business 113: Business Communication  -----------------   COM-202: Intro to Business Communication
History 308: Causes & Effects of the Vietnam War  ----- HIS-351: A History of the Vietnam War
Psychology 105: Research Methods in Psychology ------ PSY-229: Intro to Research Methods
Psychology 106: Abnormal Psychology  ------------------- PSY-235: Intro to Abnormal Psychology
Psychology 104: Social Psychology  ----------------------- PSY-237: Intro to Social Psychology

This is what it reads at TESU https://www.tesu.edu/studycom/ba-degree-...al-studies
This chart is informational in nature and designed to help prospective students see how up to 90 credits from Study.com courses may be applied to the BA degree with an area of study in Liberal Studies at Thomas Edison State University. It is not an official academic evaluation. Credits earned via Study.com courses must be submitted to the University via an official Study.com transcript for credit to be awarded.

I understand the need for an evaluation regarding courses coming in, but it seems to me that it should be clear cut whether a TESU course is upper level or not. This chart https://www.tesu.edu/studycom/ba-degree-...al-studies makes it seem as if these 200 named courses at TESU would fit the upper level credit slots -- meaning I could take them at TESU and meet this requirement.

Any one know anything about this?

The way to know if something comes in as UL is by looking at the "TESU Equivalency."  If the TESU equivalency is a 300-level or 400-level course, then it's UL.  There are quite a few Study.com courses that are 300-level or 400-level per their own course numbering system, but were not ACE/NCCRS approved as UL.  So you cannot use those to figure out if they will work or not.  You can only use TESU's numbering.

The other way to know is to look the course up on ACE/NCCRS.  If it says it will come in as UL, then it would normally come in as UL at any school.  TESU follows ACE recommendations pretty closely.

Yeah that's what I thought too, but then why does TESU have these listed at the TESU website in a degree requirement table under Area of Study 300-400 level courses? Maybe, I'm misreading it.... I tried to paste a screenshot but it doesn't work.   https://www.tesu.edu/studycom/ba-degree-...al-studies.  

I'll assume it's out of date as someone mentioned and check with ACE as many have said. That's the safest route.

Thanks for the help!