University of Wisconsin has a self-paced, competency-based program

[vmarsa03]

Got accepted for the September term! I've been looking around the website to learn more about the specifics of the Health Sciences program.

Coursework
Beyond general education requirements, there are 14 required classes for the major:

Lower Division Coursework

• HS 102X: Healthcare Delivery in the US
  
• BMS 205X: Introduction to Diagnostic Medicine
  
• BMS 245X: Client Diversity in the Health Professions
  
• CGS MAT 215X: Statistics (or equivalent)
  
• ENGLISH 206X: Technical Writing, OR ENGLISH 207X: Health Science Writing
  
• HCA 220X: Leading Healthcare Professional
  
• BMS 260X: Introduction to Complementary and Alternative Medicine
  
• TherRec 202X: Disability, Society, and the Person
  

Even though the degree requirements can be met with either Technical Writing or Health Science Writing, only Technical Writing seems to be available.

Upper Division Coursework

• BMS 314X: Human Pathophysiology I
  
• KIN 400X: Ethics and Values in the Health and Fitness Profession
  
• HS 311X: Law for Healthcare Professionals
  
• BMS 434X: Professional Development in the Health Professions
  
• BMS 433X: Teamwork in the Health Professions
  
• THERREC 303X: Inclusive Disability
  

In my situation, I transferred in Statistics. This leaves me with 13 classes left, personally.

Besides the one exception mentioned just now, all classes are available. This means that at least in theory, it should be possible to complete the entire program in a single term (whether or not this is actually feasible, I'm still unsure of).

Other Notes
Unlike UMPI, you can actually scroll through all of the available classes through the class search. It looks like you manually sign up for the classes you want (also unlike UMPI).

Almost all of my classes from previous universities were accepted as transfer credits. The one exception is the graduate-level class I look at TAMUC during the Winter Mini term (doesn't show up anywhere in the website or my transcript). The transfer credits are capped at 90.

After getting accepted, I received an email with an activation code. Every time I tried entering the code into the activation website I was sent, I kept getting an error message telling me that my session had timed out. I was able to fix this by opening the page in Microsoft Edge (I was originally trying in Chrome).

Curious to see how this program goes. I'll be sure to document my experiences here!

hey Rbx, im considering doing something similar, getting a BA with UMPI and another through university of wisconsin. when you got your degree from UMPI, did you go the sophia/straighterline route or did you take all your classes at UMPI. Did your sophia credits transfer to UofW? Thanks!