ASU credit for $99 until 08-17-2020!

[Cofffeee]

For instructor led courses you must start before 25 August. For self paced you need to finish course work by 25 October if i am not mistaken.

[bjcheung77]

OK, never mind... I just went into a course and found out the answer.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, all course prices were temporarily adjusted to $99 until August 25th, 2020 at 11:59 MST. After that date, all courses will return to their original price of $400, and the $25 credit eligibility fee will no longer be waived.

Please read on for specific details:

If you enroll in an instructor-paced course that begins before August 25th, you may complete the course and the $99 price will be honored upon your completion.

If you enroll in a self-paced course by August 25th, we are granting a grace period. You may complete your course and the $99 price will be honored up until October 25th, 2020 at 11:59 MST.

[rachel83az]

The final set of $99 courses are now open! My initial thoughts on what I have are as follows:

CSE 110 - Programming for Everyone
15 week course. There are 5 skill challenges, 13 projects, 2 sections for the midterm (not proctored) and 2 sections for the final (proctored). Interestingly, only 11 of the 13 projects count; the worst ones will be dropped from your grade. There are no Cerego flash cards. You do not have to install anything (IDEs, etc.) to complete the projects. Everything is in the browser. The final is (as usual) worth 30% of the grade. You can bomb the final and still get credit, so long as you do decently in the rest of the course. The course is supposed to cover both Java and Python which is a pleasant surprise (I thought it was just Java). 

CSE 105 - Computer Applications and Information Technology
7.5 week course. 12 content mastery sections, 7 quizzes, midterm (not proctored), final (proctored). Content mastery is not Cerego. It's real-world-style exercises. The first week has you doing some sort of cash flow analysis using Excel (and other work, I haven't looked deeply). Final is worth 30% of the grade. Sophia is, obviously, much easier if you're going to TESU. Take Sophia for credit and this as a non-credit option for personal learning.

COM 100 - Introduction to Human Communication
7.5 week course. 7 exit quizzes, 7 reaction/responses, 7 situational analyses, final (proctored). There is no midterm. The final is worth 35% of your grade so you have to do better on the final than for other ASU courses. Reaction/response is an assignment of 300-350 words answering various questions (first week concerns communication in your own life). Situational awareness is another 300-350 word assignment based off of a specific situation (first week is regarding a graduation speech). The "exit quizzes" are just a standard weekly quiz like other ASU courses. 

CHM 114 - Chemistry for Engineers
7.5 week course. 7 quizzes, 7 labs, midterm (not proctored), final (proctored), ALICE chemistry problems. I'm not sure what ALICE is or how it's implemented but it is almost certainly related to http://chem.lapeer.org/Alice/Index.html The lowest scored quiz will be dropped from your grade so that only 6 quizzes count. The midterm is only 10% of your grade while the final is a whopping 39% of your grade. You can do fairly well in this course, bomb the final, and possibly not get credit. Although I have not gone through the course yet, for this reason alone I recommend future students (who will have to pay $25 for each credit attempt) might want to try the no-credit option first before attempting to take it for credit. 

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The only one that I actually need from this group is CSE 110. I am not sure how much of the others I'm going to do. I might work my way through CSE 105 just for the knowledge but, because it duplicates Sophia's Intro to IT, it's definitely not something that I need. Human communication is an awful lot of writing, which makes sense I suppose, but I'd rather focus on ASU's math courses than those.

[SweetsugarNL]

Thats a bummer from human communication.

[ReyMysterioso]

Lol, a couple of 300 word bits every week without MLA format or peer-reviewed references are not that bad at all.

[nilahti2]

Is the ASM 246 consider upper level to COSC?

[SweetsugarNL]

Lol, a couple of 300 word bits every week without MLA format or peer-reviewed references are not that bad at all.

No. But if you do 3 more courses and sophia stuff aswell....

[rachel83az]

Is the ASM 246 consider upper level to COSC?

Almost certainly not. It's considered a freshman-level course by ASU.

[bjcheung77]

Hmm, would it be killer to take 4 or 5 of their courses or more and only get credit for the ones you need? For example, I want to take their and Astronomy and Chemistry because of the lab credits (the chem duplicates mine, but I don't have a lab), along with their other courses for review. Which are their easiest?

[rachel83az]

Hmm, would it be killer to take 4 or 5 of their courses or more and only get credit for the ones you need?  For example, I want to take their and Astronomy and Chemistry because of the lab credits (the chem duplicates mine, but I don't have a lab), along with their other courses for review.  Which are their easiest?

4 is totally doable. 5 might be pushing it. Figure it'll take about a day to go through each week's videos and assignments for a class. It should only be a couple of hours per class but ASU does have technical issues from time to time. 

Are you looking for classes to take right now for $99 or are you just wanting classes for personal enrichment? "Easy" is subjective, anyway. I personally found Western Civilization to be the easiest one I've taken so far but that one isn't available for $99. Health & Wellness wasn't too bad, once I got used to the different format from the other classes.