(06-29-2020, 12:23 AM)rachel83az Wrote: Run, don't walk, to Sophia and take as many free courses as you can. The ones not to take would be foundations courses, college readiness, the 1-credit courses, and (of course) English Comp. I and Intro to Sociology. (The 1-credit classes are always free, you can skip those and get the ones that are normally $330 instead.)

You have approximately 4 months from now to complete them all. 16 weeks to complete about 20 classes. You should be able to complete a good number in a month. On July 30th, you sign up for all the classes you didn't finish yet. That will lock them in as free and give you 2 months + 1 month extension to complete them all. If you happen to not finish a class, there is no penalty. But the more you finish, the easier/cheaper the rest of your degree will be.

Your degree plan will then depend on how many Sophia.org classes you manage to finish.

(06-29-2020, 02:41 AM)cerich67 Wrote: TESU is accepting Sophia Intro to Sociology as SOC 101 Intro to Sociology  in the Diversity Intercultural Literacy 3SH for my BSBA .. so why are you advising he not take?

(06-29-2020, 02:51 AM)rachel83az Wrote:

(06-29-2020, 02:41 AM)cerich67 Wrote: TESU is accepting Sophia Intro to Sociology as SOC 101 Intro to Sociology  in the Diversity Intercultural Literacy 3SH for my BSBA .. so why are you advising he not take?

Because OP already took the CLEP Intro to Sociology. Won't they duplicate?

(06-28-2020, 10:03 PM)brandiel Wrote: CC Credits:
Eng 101   English Composition

CLEPS:
English Comp (Non essay) - this duplicates Eng 101

(06-29-2020, 12:23 AM)rachel83az Wrote: Run, don't walk, to Sophia and take as many free courses as you can. The ones not to take would be foundations courses, college readiness, the 1-credit courses, and (of course) English Comp. I and Intro to Sociology. (The 1-credit classes are always free, you can skip those and get the ones that are normally $330 instead.)

You have approximately 4 months from now to complete them all. 16 weeks to complete about 20 classes. You should be able to complete a good number in a month. On July 30th, you sign up for all the classes you didn't finish yet. That will lock them in as free and give you 2 months + 1 month extension to complete them all. If you happen to not finish a class, there is no penalty. But the more you finish, the easier/cheaper the rest of your degree will be.

Your degree plan will then depend on how many Sophia.org classes you manage to finish.

(06-29-2020, 04:21 PM)dfrecore Wrote: You didn't put how many credits each course is, so I'll just go with 3cr each, and then if anything is different, you have to make the appropriate changes.  You want to take as many courses as you can through Sophia, but you don't want to take anything you can't use, so planning is key here.  You have limited time to get these done.  The ones in BOLD RED are the ones I would prioritize.

Here's how Sophia will work, and what I'd do:

AREA A
WRITTEN COMMUNICATION: English Comp II
ORAL COMMUNICATION: Public Speaking
QUANTITATIVE LITERACY: College Algebra

AREA B
ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: Intro to Ethics
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: NOT AVAILABLE

GE ELECTIVES (12cr max)
Approaches to Studying Religions
Art History I
Art History II
Conflict Resolution
Visual Communications
Ancient Greek Philosophers
US History I
US History II
Intro to Psychology
Environmental Science
Human Biology
Intro to IT
The Essentials of Managing Conflict (1cr)

BUSINESS CORE/AOS
Intro to Statistics
Macro & Microeconomics
Accounting
Project Management

FREE ELECTIVES (6cr max)
Developing Effective Teams (1cr)
Intro to Business
Anything you didn't take previously

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(06-28-2020, 10:03 PM)brandiel Wrote: CC Credits:
Eng 101   English Composition

CLEPS:
English Comp (Non essay) - this duplicates Eng 101

(06-29-2020, 08:36 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: Brandiel, being 33 is not old at all.  I am 10 years your senior and I started many many times over from scratch, I bit the bullet and was determined to get things done in 2016, I also created the Beginner's Guide on this and the sister board to keep track of things and in the long run give newbies the basics to hacking their own degree plan.

I noticed you created a previous thread a couple of months ago.  I understand sometimes "starting" is daunting as you're not sure where to begin and afraid to take courses that don't apply to your degree.  For most degrees such as the BALS/BSBA, the first 90 credits are virtually identical, it's the "final" 30 that make up the difference and thus your major/concentration.

To finish your general education/free elective courses, take all you can at Sophia.org that doesn't duplicate what you already have... Just sign up for one course at a time for Sophia.org and complete them 1 at a time but, when it's around July 20 or so, sign up for all the ones that you haven't taken yet, you have 2 months from the date to complete them.

TLDR-Recap, don't take too much time deciding on degree or what courses to take, follow the advice on this thread and your previous thread linked here: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-Study-com--34579  - One last piece of advice, get a secondary monitor to multi-task.

(06-29-2020, 08:36 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: To finish your general education/free elective courses, take all you can at Sophia.org that doesn't duplicate what you already have... Just sign up for one course at a time for Sophia.org and complete them 1 at a time but, when it's around July 20 or so, sign up for all the ones that you haven't taken yet, you have 2 months from the date to complete them.