The official guide to courses from the Big Three: COSC, TESU, & Excelsior

[jsh1138]

Provider: Charter Oak
Course: PSY216: Psychology Statistics
Instructor: Dr Claire Clifford
Course content: It's mostly done through Blackboard, their online learning portal. But you also have to use Statcrunch, an online tool for calculating stats that's honestly pretty good.
Final exam format: Every week you do a discussion, a Statcrunch assignment, and a written submission. Midterm and final papers are you analyzing psychological studies' statistics.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: If you read the book and do the weekly assignments, the midterm and finals are pretty simple.
Time taken on course: The discussions are generally due on Thurs, Statcrunch on Sat, and papers on Sun. Usually there is some math in the discussion, it's not just "talking"
Familiarity with subject before course: I knew a bit about business statistics, but most of this course was stuff I had never heard of. Psych stats are specialized in some ways
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: Basically you'd better do the reading every week or you're going to be lost. Statcrunch does almost all the work for you on those assignments so those are pretty easy. But the written papers require you to actually know what you're talking about.
1-10 Difficulty level: 3 or 4. It's not that bad if you do the work but if you don't do the work there's no way you're going to pass this. You can't BS your way through it, it's math.

---

Provider: Charter Oak
Course: IDS101: Cornerstone
Instructor: Prof Sabine Meyer
Course content: It's 2 online course books and some power point presentations. Every week you have to do a discussion or two, and write a short paper. The final is a 1500-2000 word paper on the topic of your choice. Then you have to make a powerpoint summarizing the course
Final exam format: Final paper and a powerpoint.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: If you have taken English Comp 1 and 2, you have seen everything there is to see here
Time taken on course: the discussions are due Wed and everything else Sunday. You could do everything you have to do in a week in probably 2 hours per week
Familiarity with subject before course: This is my 2nd degree so I knew most everything here.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: Generally none. Dr Meyer is really strict about deadlines, repeatedly saying things like "you can't turn in assignments late for any reason so don't ask". So if you have her, turn it in on time.
1-10 Difficulty level: 1