Thomas Edison State University suspended indefinitely Shmoop courses

[leeloodallas]

I have enrolled as far as applying, sending in transcripts, and getting an academic evaluation. I also have paid for a tecep.

I believe you become enrolled ~10 days after the beginning of the period for which you purchased the course. So if you paid for a TECEP that begins on May 1st, then you'll become enrolled on the 10th. If you paid for one that started last month, then you're enrolled now. If it doesn't start until June, you won't become enrolled until June 10th.

I truly had zero idea that you could pre-plan outside courses at TESU. It was required to do so at Excelsior, but I never saw anything about it in any emails from TESU. I thought most people here on the forum had completed courses and then sent them in to see what would happen, and reported back here.. and that was how people here had compiled lists of accepted courses.

Pre-planning at TESU is not required, nor is it necessarily common. Some will try to pre-plan courses that are not part of an existing transfer agreement with TESU to make sure they are applied to their degree plan the way that they expect. However, I suspect that many (most?) here just take courses based a prior knowledge of what to expect, based on how courses have been evaluated in the past. So it isn't unusual that you don't have courses officially planned. I don't either, though I had 8 Shmoop courses listed on my personal degree plan.

The thing that really bothers me is that all the "fun" sounding GenEd credits on my plan (Pop Culture Literacy, History of Technology, etc.) were all Shmoop courses and now I won't be able to take them. It looks like I'll have to replace them with boring courses like Psychology and Sociology.

I enrolled for the March term for the tecep, so I actually really need to take it soon.
I completely understand about your plan.. Unlike most people here, I actually really like the Shmoop courses a lot! I wouldn’t say they are easy at all, as I’ve been working on Lit in the Media for 1.5 months already. It’s a lot of reading, and some of it can be tedious, but I prefer it to writing assignments.
I guess I will try calling TESU advising on Monday. These were the last two classes I needed, other than the capstone. This is unbelievably bad timing.