Motivations behind multiple degrees

[eriehiker]

My wife had twins six years ago. I had previously been involved in many community activities and needed some way to achieve something when I was pretty much homebound with the new kids. It gave me something to focus on so that I didn't go crazy. Also, my wife and I are planning to retire from teaching in three years and move back to her home area and multiple degrees give me flexibility in terms of jobs.

[CarpeDiem8]

Since I pretty much only have AOS left to tackle - have 87 credits going (75 completed and 12 bought) and only 1 class left to buy and complete for Gen Ed, I'm going to guess that I missed the opportunity to complete a double major without having to take a bunch of extra courses in the process.

Of course, there's nothing stopping me from doing the extra credits, but like you said, it will be more time and money spent in order to do so.

I haven't left it off the plate of options, but if I'm picking up what you're putting down, it looks like I missed the boat on this one.

[bjcheung77]

Technically, depending on your second major, you haven't "missed" the boat. Example, If you were going for a BALS as a check the box degree, and you wanted to add the Psychology as a double major, you're still on target as long as the Upper Level requirements are met. You can dump 3 Psych UL into the BALS and get two more UL in any Liberal Studies subject. List all your credits, from your B&M to ACE/NCCRS, etc...

[dfrecore]

Technically, depending on your second major, you haven't "missed" the boat.   Example, If you were going for a BALS as a check the box degree, and you wanted to add the Psychology as a double major, you're still on target as long as the Upper Level requirements are met.   You can dump 3 Psych UL into the BALS and get two more UL in any Liberal Studies subject.   List all your credits, from your B&M to ACE/NCCRS, etc...

There is literally zero point in having a double-major in Psych and Liberal Studies, so I wouldn't waste my time with that.  Instead, you would just go for the Psych degree and skip the BALS.  Then, if for some reason you were to need to switch for some reason you could - but you should either get one or the other of those degrees, not both.

[CarpeDiem8]

Technically, depending on your second major, you haven't "missed" the boat.   Example, If you were going for a BALS as a check the box degree, and you wanted to add the Psychology as a double major, you're still on target as long as the Upper Level requirements are met.   You can dump 3 Psych UL into the BALS and get two more UL in any Liberal Studies subject.   List all your credits, from your B&M to ACE/NCCRS, etc...

There is literally zero point in having a double-major in Psych and Liberal Studies, so I wouldn't waste my time with that.  Instead, you would just go for the Psych degree and skip the BALS.  Then, if for some reason you were to need to switch for some reason you could - but you should either get one or the other of those degrees, not both.

Yep, then I missed the boat as I don't intend to do a double major with Psych + BALS. It would be something like Psych and another major, such as Comm. Since I have done most needed for GE it would be more like 2 simultaneous degrees at this point, but both BA's from the same house, which is stupid.

Thanks!

Danielle

[dfrecore]

Technically, depending on your second major, you haven't "missed" the boat.   Example, If you were going for a BALS as a check the box degree, and you wanted to add the Psychology as a double major, you're still on target as long as the Upper Level requirements are met.   You can dump 3 Psych UL into the BALS and get two more UL in any Liberal Studies subject.   List all your credits, from your B&M to ACE/NCCRS, etc...

There is literally zero point in having a double-major in Psych and Liberal Studies, so I wouldn't waste my time with that.  Instead, you would just go for the Psych degree and skip the BALS.  Then, if for some reason you were to need to switch for some reason you could - but you should either get one or the other of those degrees, not both.

Yep, then I missed the boat as I don't intend to do a double major with Psych + BALS. It would be something like Psych and another major, such as Comm. Since I have done most needed for GE it would be more like 2 simultaneous degrees at this point, but both BA's from the same house, which is stupid.

Thanks!

Danielle

Actually, Psych & Comm wouldn't be stupid at all.  2 simultaneous degrees from the same school is fine - just not a BALS + something else.  The problem with Comm is that it can't be tested out of - Psych can.

[CarpeDiem8]

So if I'm picking up what everyone is saying, it sounds like a double major allows you to use the AOS in one degree as electives / Gen Ed in the other and vice versa. If one is visualizing 2 degrees side by side, the AOS courses for both basically crosses over to the other so that you don't have to take a bunch of electives that you'd otherwise have to complete for just one degree, correct? For example, the AOS courses for a BA in Comm could be used towards, let's say, the Electives within a BA in Psych...and vice versa....the AOS courses for Psych could be used towards to Electives in Comm, correct?

I already have a bunch of Electives done and most of the GE's, however, if I wanted to do a BA in Psych + Comm (double major) + ASNAM in Comp Sci.....I'd have do the AOS courses for all 3...with the ASNAM having a little more flexibility within AOS as some of my completed electives for the BA fit into its AOS already.

For what it's worth, here's a link for all my completed/working on courses on 1 tab, with planned BA and ASNAM on another tab:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing

Thanks!

Danielle

[natshar]

So if I'm picking up what everyone is saying, it sounds like a double major allows you to use the AOS in one degree as electives / Gen Ed in the other and vice versa. If one is visualizing 2 degrees side by side, the AOS courses for both basically crosses over to the other so that you don't have to take a bunch of electives that you'd otherwise have to complete for just one degree, correct? For example, the AOS courses for a BA in Comm could be used towards, let's say, the Electives within a BA in Psych...and vice versa....the AOS courses for Psych could be used towards to Electives in Comm, correct?

I already have a bunch of Electives done and most of the GE's, however, if I wanted to do a BA in Psych + Comm (double major) + ASNAM in Comp Sci.....I'd have do the AOS courses for all 3...with the ASNAM having a little more flexibility within AOS as some of my completed electives for the BA fit into its AOS already.

For what it's worth, here's a link for all my completed/working on courses on 1 tab, with planned BA and ASNAM on another tab:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing

Thanks!

Danielle

You already did a little bit it looks like you have the lower level communications courses done. You would need 15 credits UL comm. And of course mass comm I, II and comm theory which can't be tested out of. That's 24 extra credits you would need for a communications degree.

[bjcheung77]

The BALS and BA Psych was just an example, another example would be something similar to someone doing a BA Biology and wanting a BA Environmental Studies from TESU.  

Essentially, as I mentioned in post 11, using Bio/Enviro as an example, a person can do a BA Biology, and using the free electives (30 credits - take all the requirements of the BA Env), and they will share the same Gen Eds (60 credits), free electives/capstone (30 credits).  

If you look at it the other way, someone doing a BA Env, will take the 30 free credits/capstone, and use those Bio requirements to fulfill that.  

BTW, for your ASNSM Comp Sci, you just need to take the FREE TEEX Cybersecurity courses and you're done, it's free vs paying $70 for another computer course.

[CarpeDiem8]

BTW, for your ASNSM Comp Sci, you just need to take the FREE TEEX Cybersecurity courses and you're done, it's free vs paying $70 for another computer course.

Thanks, bjcheung77. After reading how cumbersome the TEEX courses are, I thought maybe paying extra might be worth it. LOL!

So drop the 2 planned courses from SDC (Intro to Programming + Cybersecurity), and take Cyber 101 for 3 credits and Cyber 201 for 4 credits, gotcha.

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Also, I bet a double major with Psych + Sociology would be easy, but also redundant. 

Danielle