SNHU new gen ed requirements

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Just called my advisor. Then spoke to another advisor just in case mine was mistaken. They both said that there are now stricter requirements for certain programs, and these additional requirements are up your advisor to give out out to you (they don't even list them online!!! ).

For example in my case (CS major):

Creative and Critical Expression (ECCE) Advisor Note: STEM Students must take HUM-215
Historical Perspectives (EHPS) Advisor Note: STEM students must take HIS-217
Contexts in Shaping the Self in Society (ESPE) Advisor note: STEM students must take SCS-260

And on top of that, Sophia's Art History 1 isn't accepted anymore for Cornerstone Humanities (CHUM).

The cornerstones have to be direct equates (exactly the same course ID) from here: https://www.snhu.edu/admission/academic-...2570455ad2

Which means there's no Sophia option for Cornerstone Sustainability (CSST), Cornerstone Social Justice (CSOJ), and Culmination Experience (CLME).

So I could only transfer in Math, English, and electives from Sophia for general education.

I'm dropping out for sure. Not worth the time, effort, or money. These new required courses aren't standard courses too, so I imagine they would be hard to transfer elsewhere.

From that same Reddit thread listed earlier, here's a quote:

"Your advisor is not correct, if they said that you can’t transfer in classes to those gen Ed sections.

There are no DIRECT equates - could that be what they mean? For example a freshman with 0 credits would take HIS-262 for historical perspectives. This course is super super new, so we don’t currently have any direct equates for it on Sophia learning.

However, if you took, let’s just say, US History 1 at a community college. Or, took it on Sophia. That would transfer into SNHU as HIS-113. That would fill in that history section. Any HIS transfer course could fill in that section.

Your comment says “STEM students must take HIS-217”- that means the course is dictated and can’t be “substituted”. You would HAVE to take HIS-217 specifically and couldn’t transfer in a random history course there. Another example is that for Business students, they HAVE to take MAT-240 as their math course - if they take Calculus at a different college it would not satisfy their math because it is dictated. Does that make sense?"

This is from the person that said they worked at SNHU and do evaluations every day.

Also to be clear for CS, you do have to take Precalcusu (MAT142) and Calculus (MAT225) as noted in the Wiki.