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[homeschoolmom1]

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.

I wonder what you mean by very, very mature topics. Is it nude images? Or psychological stuff like suicide or adultery or stuff like that? Or violent war type topics? I am just curious.


I was not aware that ART-166 (either from SDC or Sophia) would not count for the history requirement at TESU, so we will probably not go that route anyway.

Coopersmith it is. Will first try History of Board Games, which requires a one-page essay on a popular board game to be emailed to them before you even do the exam. I prefer that over the essay type questions that you do within the exam. I will report here how the course goes. If he fails that, the backup plan is history of food trucks or history of ice cream. 

Unfortunately, won't be able to have those evaluated at TESU for a few more years, because he is only 13 years old. As soon as he turns 16, will do the academic evaluation at TESU.

Another thing I will have him do is these statistics.com courses: machine learning with python, python for analytics, network analysis. I wonder if any of those 3 will come in as UL for the TESU Bachelor of Computer Science. We shall see.