Has anyone taken the following courses for credit?

Ah....good thinking. Knock off some Excelsior MIS courses through PF. If you look at the DATES heading, that lets you know the time period that the course was ACE approved, so I think that the first one is out, but the second course is still current and could/should qualify.

If you write the Excelsior Business advisor and ask if the class below...

Structured Systems Analysis
ACE Transcript Data: ICS-0028
Organization: Penn Foster College
Location: Self-study.
Length: Correspondence program.
Dates: April 1991 – Present

...qualifies as a Systems Analysis core course for the Excelsior Business MIS degree, then you could be on to something.

BTW if you need to knock off the programming requirement, Excelsior takes the Game Institute's C++ course. It's 10 weeks and looks extremely doable. I signed up just to have an interesting method for learning a programming language. Currently the C++ course runs $119 and a second course which also gives 4 credits at Excelsior as electives runs $99. I'll post as I progress through it. Game Programming, Video Game Design, Video Game Programming

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Excelsior - BS Business


CLEP's: Macroeconomics 58, Microeconomics 51, Principles of Accounting 59, Intro to Marketing 71, Intro to Mgmt 70 Business Law 55, Humanities 61, Analyzing & Interpreting Literature 68, Social Sciences & History 62
DANTES: MIS 65, Intro to Business 68, Money & Banking 48 , Intro to Computing 61, Statistics 61, Ethics in America 67
ECE: Org. Behavior C, Ethics C
PENN F: Technical Math I C, Fin Mgmt. B, Info Lit A
TECEP: Ops Mgmt, Bus Policy

That's pretty sweet, I know TESC counts the first PF course as a 5 credit course, I double checked with them today. cbrchris mentioned ICS-0031 as counting toward Systems Analysis core (4 credits).

I asked EC and got approval for these classes to be used towards the MIS requirement.

Satisfies the Systems Analysis and Design requirement
CIS240 - Systems Design (3 credits) - ACE Course Number: ICS-0031
Role of the systems analyst in developing business applications; hierarchy charts; IPO; decision tables; structured English.

Satisfies the Business Programming Language
CSC218 - Visual Basic® .NET (3 credits) - ACE Course Number: ICS-0164
Introduction to Visual Basic® and managing controls; dialog boxes and controls; nature of Visual Basic® programs; Visual Basic® forms, files, and output; graphics, multimedia, and form templates; ActiveX and ADO controls; Internet access, Help files, and distributing programs; multidimensional arrays and the Windows® API.


I originally asked if either or both ICS-0028 and ICS-0031 would satisfy the System Analysis and Design but my advisor only responded with ICS-0031 as being able to satisfy. She did not say no to ICS-0028 but didnt say yes either.

CIS235 - Structured Systems Analysis (3 credits) - ACE Course Number: ICS-0028
The system development cycle; information gathering and reporting activities on the analysis phase; interaction of various participants in the systems process.


I went ahead and asked about the Database course thru penn Foster even though I could not find the ACE evaluation. The advisor was unable to find anything on it either, so would not approve it.

INT225 - Introduction to Database Technology (3 credits) -
Offers an overview of essential database concepts, with a focus on the relational model of database management; covers Structured Query Language (SQL), design methodology, functions of a database management system, and database administration; includes advanced topics such as object-oriented (OO) databases, data warehouses, and client server systems.



edit - removed duplicated course. All info is still the same. I think it would have caused confusion and I originally did not mean to post it twice.

Wow...great work you two! This makes the MIS component a lot more doable. Penn Foster is affordable, you can fly through the modules using open book tests and the ability to retake the final almost guarentees success.

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Excelsior - BS Business


CLEP's: Macroeconomics 58, Microeconomics 51, Principles of Accounting 59, Intro to Marketing 71, Intro to Mgmt 70 Business Law 55, Humanities 61, Analyzing & Interpreting Literature 68, Social Sciences & History 62
DANTES: MIS 65, Intro to Business 68, Money & Banking 48 , Intro to Computing 61, Statistics 61, Ethics in America 67
ECE: Org. Behavior C, Ethics C
PENN F: Technical Math I C, Fin Mgmt. B, Info Lit A
TECEP: Ops Mgmt, Bus Policy

It's also helpful as a GPA Booster!

Can you inquire about ICS-0040 and see if it fulfills both the programming requirement AND the Information Literacy requirement at the same time?

Response from EC:

I could not find the ACE equivalent either, so this would not work.

However, I believe certain Oracle Certification examinations would fulfill the requirement.

http://www.instantcertonline.com/for...16-post11.html

cbrchris,

From what I remember, you signed up for the Systems Design course, can you tell us a little about it?

I'm deciding between that and Structured Systems Analysis, and I wonder which would be better suited toward Business MIS.

Computer Information Systems Degree - Training Outline - Penn Foster College