ASU credit for $99 until 08-17-2020!

[MNomadic]

The final set of $99 courses are now open! My initial thoughts on what I have are as follows:

CSE 110 - Programming for Everyone
15 week course. There are 5 skill challenges, 13 projects, 2 sections for the midterm (not proctored) and 2 sections for the final (proctored). Interestingly, only 11 of the 13 projects count; the worst ones will be dropped from your grade. There are no Cerego flash cards. You do not have to install anything (IDEs, etc.) to complete the projects. Everything is in the browser. The final is (as usual) worth 30% of the grade. You can bomb the final and still get credit, so long as you do decently in the rest of the course. The course is supposed to cover both Java and Python which is a pleasant surprise (I thought it was just Java). 

CSE 105 - Computer Applications and Information Technology
7.5 week course. 12 content mastery sections, 7 quizzes, midterm (not proctored), final (proctored). Content mastery is not Cerego. It's real-world-style exercises. The first week has you doing some sort of cash flow analysis using Excel (and other work, I haven't looked deeply). Final is worth 30% of the grade. Sophia is, obviously, much easier if you're going to TESU. Take Sophia for credit and this as a non-credit option for personal learning.

COM 100 - Introduction to Human Communication
7.5 week course. 7 exit quizzes, 7 reaction/responses, 7 situational analyses, final (proctored). There is no midterm. The final is worth 35% of your grade so you have to do better on the final than for other ASU courses. Reaction/response is an assignment of 300-350 words answering various questions (first week concerns communication in your own life). Situational awareness is another 300-350 word assignment based off of a specific situation (first week is regarding a graduation speech). The "exit quizzes" are just a standard weekly quiz like other ASU courses. 

CHM 114 - Chemistry for Engineers
7.5 week course. 7 quizzes, 7 labs, midterm (not proctored), final (proctored), ALICE chemistry problems. I'm not sure what ALICE is or how it's implemented but it is almost certainly related to http://chem.lapeer.org/Alice/Index.html The lowest scored quiz will be dropped from your grade so that only 6 quizzes count. The midterm is only 10% of your grade while the final is a whopping 39% of your grade. You can do fairly well in this course, bomb the final, and possibly not get credit. Although I have not gone through the course yet, for this reason alone I recommend future students (who will have to pay $25 for each credit attempt) might want to try the no-credit option first before attempting to take it for credit. 

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The only one that I actually need from this group is CSE 110. I am not sure how much of the others I'm going to do. I might work my way through CSE 105 just for the knowledge but, because it duplicates Sophia's Intro to IT, it's definitely not something that I need. Human communication is an awful lot of writing, which makes sense I suppose, but I'd rather focus on ASU's math courses than those.

So it looks like CSE 105 uses cerego as a study tool to prep for the quizzes. Do you happen to know if the quiz questions come right out of the cerego practice questions? That would support my learning style better if I could just skim the readings and use the cerego practice to prep for the quizzes.