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[rachel83az]

Our son needs 3 credits of history. He has done modules 10-17 of the video games creation course at XAMK, but only Module 10 appears to be history ("History of Games Parts 1 and 2), which is 1 European credit = most likely 0.5 US credits.

Has anybody else here has this evaluated or transferred to TESU? My question is: How did the above poster get 3 US credits for "History of Games"? Which XAMK courses were those?

If XAMK does not work out for history, we are considering to be guinea pigs for Coopersmith's "History of Board Games". It sounds like fun and appropriate for a 13 year old. We are staying away from most history courses because he is very sensitive to violence and war related themes, and from art history because someone here said that it has a lot of nudity. Well, he might actually like that...

IIRC, Art History I at Sophia doesn't have (much?) nudity. Maybe some Michaelangelo or something? You can download the course PDFs to preview them (whether you have an active subscription or not). Art History II is absolutely not appropriate for young children. I'd guess 15+, maybe?, and that's the bare minimum; at least 16 or 17 would probably be better (there are some very, very mature topics in Art History II). Art History I is mostly prehistoric stuff, Egyptian, etc.

But, as already stated, Art History doesn't count as history at most universities.

Unfortunately, he's too young for OnlineDegree. That history course was pretty good, nothing graphic (that I could remember), but there was discussion of war in the abstract.

You could preview the US History courses at Sophia the same as Art History. I don't remember those being violent or whatever, though it's been a while since I took them.

I also don't remember https://ea.asu.edu/courses/global-histor...0-hst-100/ being particularly graphic either. You could take it yourself for $25, then if it's appropriate he could take it the next time it's offered.