TESU BSBA in CIS

[Merlin]

The advising folks have no connection to the team that does evaluations which is part of the problem. They just look up a course in their database and if they don 't see it, they will often just say it won't work when it will. Their job is to recommend courses from TESU to complete your degree requirement and they don't really have much idea at all on how to deal with alternative education courses. Asking people who've done it before on this forum is a better option in most cases. However, in some cases, you may need to just bite the bullet... take a course, submit the transcript, and see how it is evaluated.

Technically, any CIS or COS course (and most CAP and CMP courses) can theoretically be used as a CIS elective. Your advisor is saying they want you to take all upper-level courses (ideally from TESU), but I can tell you that isn't an actual requirement. Of the 18cr required in the CIS AOS, I only had 12cr (4 courses) as upper-level credits to meet the minimum requirement; the rest of my AoS credits were all from lower-level courses.

That said, CIS-103 is an introductory CIS course and doesn't really fit into the CIS AoS, which is intended to be professional or advanced level CIS courses, so it doesn't make sense to try to force the issue. You would be better served to use that course in the BSBA Core (as your Computers requirement) or as a GenEd elective. Take one of the TEEX cybersecurity courses and slot that in the CIS AOS instead. Those are free and shouldn't be too challenging for a CIS/COS student.

thanks Merlin. all that was really useful information - this is what i decided to take after reading everyone's posts (no TEEX because I have a year long Study subscription and may as well use it) - 
 
COS-116 : C Programming - LL
Study.com  Computer Science 111: Programming in C
Systs Analy/Dsgn 3SH

REQUIRED COURSE : CIS-320 Systems Analysis and Design I - UL
Study.com Computer Science 302: Systems Analysis & Design
CIS Electives 12 SH

MAR-441 : Marketing with Digital and Social Media - UL
Study.com Business 309: Digital Marketing & Advertising

CIS-311 : Database Management - UL
Study.com Computer Science 303: Database Management

CIS-301 : Management Information Systems UL
Study.com Business 303: Management Information Systems

Computer Science 105: Introduction to Operating Systems
COS-240 : Operating Systems

That is almost identical to what I took in my AOS except instead of the operating systems course, I have two TEEX courses slotted there. That should work just fine.