TESU SOS-110 Policy Spelled Out

[Spartiate]

Hello, All.

I completed TES-100 back in 2016, got distracted with life and other educational pursuits, and just came back to TESU in early 2019.

My email and online student services login still worked and I was able to register for PLA-100 like nothing had happened!

I changed my degree programs (to BS in Electronics and BSBA in CIS... both now 2019A catalog) and got all my transcripts sent. I was very pleased with the evaluation of my credits and the application of credit to my new programs. However, SOS-110 showed as required and incomplete in both programs.

Per TESU procedure, I emailed the registrar last week with my few issues after the initial credit evaluation. On the SOS-110 issue, I stated that I had completed TES-100 and have credit from the Analyzing/Interpreting Literature CLEP (one of the "old" information literacy alternatives) on my TESU transcript. I just got a response today from an advisor. The CLEP credit has been applied under SOS-110 with an exception, "Course approved per catalog exception".

So, communicate with the student services folks. I think email is perfect for this, even if I hate waiting for the reply. Also, if you have TES-100 credit, and you want a substitution for SOS-110, I would get it processed ASAP.

To those wondering why we have a new and expensive course requirement: Maybe TESU is reinforcing their revenue to cover administrative overhead in a changing alternative education market. (Greedy? Uncompetitive? You decide.)

Here is a TESU page with Information Literacy options: https://www.tesu.edu/academics/courses/2016-and-after

And a list of Information Literacy options from that page in case it disappears:

CMP-202: Foundation of Information Technology
CMP-354: Network Technology
DGL-101: Learning in the Digital Age
HIS-356: War and American Society
LIT-291: Analysis and Interpretation of Literature
LIT-301: Advanced American Literature I
LIT-302: Advanced American Literature II
LIT-331: African Encounters
LIT-460: Non-Western Literature
PSY-322: Experimental Psychology
REL-405: World Religions
SOC-291: Criminology
SOS-110: Living in the Information Age 3
SOS-492: Research Methods in the Social Sciences


Seems like a pretty random list to me. Look at the variation in level... 101 to 492. There is a trend in higher education toward slashing elective options in favor of short pick lists or single prescribed courses. (It's more "efficient".)

Best regards,

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