Residency Required Hours

[wildebeest]

Can you tell me if I am understanding this correctly, please? I am applying for the BA in History.

For the 30 credits I need to take with UMPI they do not necessarily have to be from the History concentration courses correct? 

Do these 30 credits need to be mainly UL or can they be any 30 credits?

For example, if I can find alternative courses to meet the History requirements from Sophia, Study.com etc. can I do classes with those companies instead and then take other courses (that may not necessarily be History) with UMPI to be used as elective credits?

I've been told by UMPI that the GEC will be waived since I already have a degree, but I don't have an evaluation of my degree yet so I don't know how many (if any electives) I'll be able to transfer in from my BSc. 

The reason I ask is that I would like to minimize the terms I need to do at UMPI (to 3 max. if possible) to stay within my budget, but I'm concerned that I'll use up a lot of time during each term writing essays. I'd prefer to do as many classes with essays outside of UMPI (as possible) where I can take longer if need be and then I'll be able to progress faster through the 30 credits I need to do with UMPI.

I had 27 credits I needed to finish to get the degree, 24 in history and one general education requirement, but 30 credits needed for residency, so I threw in a political science class to meet residency requirements. While I believe most of your classes at UMPI ought to be upper level history, I don't know the actual requirements; you might need to ask your advisor about that. I personally transferred in two upper level history classes without issue. 

If you do want to transfer some in, Study.com is a good place to do so. Their lower level Vietnam class, which is very easy, comes in as HTY 439 The Vietnam Wars, and if you also take their upper level Vietnam course, Causes and Effects of the Vietnam War, which will be more than halfway finished if you do the lower level one first, that will come in as HTY 3XX and count as another UL history course.

For history, choosing classes correctly will help you finish within three terms (easily doable) as well as completing classes first that you can transfer in. For instance, HTY 371 International Relations and Modern Conflict took me longer on its own than U.S. Environmental History, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Marxism, and Creative and Critical Thinking combined. It's a good class, I enjoyed it and am glad I took it, but it's long.

I work about 45 hours a week, have two kids, and as of today am finished with all my required classes after one and a half sessions. I worked on school about thirty hours a week and have written about 80,000 words to get done in that time, but I think I could have written half as much and still been just fine (i.e., passed). 

I added Constitutional Law for fun today, and may add another class or two if the mood strikes me.

Anyway, you can transfer in some UL history courses, though I'm not sure how many (I did two). 

These are only the classes I've taken, but here is a list from most time consuming to least:

International Relations and Modern Conflict
Medieval Europe
World Civilization I
World Civilization II
US Environmental History
Creative and Critical Thinking
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Marxism
Constitutional Law (probably, I'm not finished; might end up slightly longer than Marxism).

The last two are political science and won't meet any history requirements.

Also, I had a six-credit Independent Study course, which is why there aren't ten classes listed above.