I'm looking for the four courses that will flesh out my depth requirement at EC. Originally, I considered history, but now I am leaning toward Criminal Justice, which would be a good compliment to my future work. While EC was very fast getting back to me with my official evaluation, they've been slow updating my status report and responding to my inquiry about depth, so I'm wondering if anyone else has done a depth in Criminal Justice (or another Arts & Science besides History, through exams).

My first proposal was DSST Criminal Justice, DSST Intro to Law Enforcement, EC Victimology (course) and the ECE Cultural Diversity exam (which is listed as part of the CJ major). Since then, after reading what EC online courses are like, I'm thinking I don't want to deal with the Victimology course and might want to substitute ECE Ethics for that.

What I'm wondering is, when EC considers a depth, how do they qualify a valid one? It's easy with history--they are all history courses! With CJ, I am hoping that as long as I choose courses/exams from the CJ major list, I'll be okay...but I'd like to know if anyone else has made that kind of thing work. (Or, if you've taken EC Victimology and enjoyed it!)

It's too bad I can't do an Applied Professional for my depth or I'd just take DSST MIS and with my transferred programming courses, I'd have Computer Science in the bag! Oh, well.

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Alix

Excelsior College, pursuing a B.S. in Psychology
Initial Transfer: 38.67 community college credits

Exams taken (39 credits):
May 2008: A&I Literature-78, General Anthropology-70 (A), Info Sys & Comp. Apps-73, American Government-60, Technical Writing-67 (A), Principles of Supervision-65 (A), Fundamentals of Counseling-68 (A), Drug & Alcohol Abuse-66 (A), Principles of Marketing-73
June 2008: Biology-73, MIS-58 (A)

Comm. college courses taken since enrolling (4 credits): Info Lit, Drawing & 2D design

Next up:
ECE Cultural Diversity
ECE Ethics
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I can't help you with the CJ depth, but if you call excelsior (instead of emailing which takes forever!) you will get your answers right away. Then you can have them approve your choices as well right away. I did this to back myself up when they did a final review of my graduation file.

Hi Alix,

LSU distance Learning has the Criminology Class that you can take instead of EC Victimology you can take either.

Penn Foster has a Victimology Class also, but I was told it would be accepted, which I hear may or may not be true. Amu/APU has classes also.

bat21, thanks for the info. It turned out that I could do a depth in computer science after all, so with one upper level exam (MIS) I was able to finish that up. Criminology would have been interesting, though!

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Alix

Excelsior College, pursuing a B.S. in Psychology
Initial Transfer: 38.67 community college credits

Exams taken (39 credits):
May 2008: A&I Literature-78, General Anthropology-70 (A), Info Sys & Comp. Apps-73, American Government-60, Technical Writing-67 (A), Principles of Supervision-65 (A), Fundamentals of Counseling-68 (A), Drug & Alcohol Abuse-66 (A), Principles of Marketing-73
June 2008: Biology-73, MIS-58 (A)

Comm. college courses taken since enrolling (4 credits): Info Lit, Drawing & 2D design

Next up:
ECE Cultural Diversity
ECE Ethics
More in-person art classes