Sophia Classes and NYPD Academy Transcript

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Just a quick note: liberal arts generally is the same as general ed.

This is a good mention, thanks. Yes Liberal Arts courses are generally held as the same as Gen Ed as opposed to those which may fall under applied professional. 

I appreciate it.  I have attached my ESC transcript.  My mentor had already plugged in all my other credits but I manually added my ACE and Police transcripts.  You will notice + and * marks next to classes to signify if they are upper level and or liberal arts classes.  I added those marks to the transcripts I manually added so I am not sure if I added the + or * are added or not put in the right spots.  The upper levels I picked from NYPD, I know those are upper levels.  I just don't know what would be considered liberal arts.  I am hoping I am just short the one mandatory degree planning class and some upper level credits.

Thanks a bunch,
Mike

Okay, so Mike, When I'm looking at your Sophia credits it appears that everything you marked for Liberal Arts is correct. Your BUS, ACCT, and PM courses are all generally applied professional credits. The only two I am unsure of (hopefully someone else can chime in) is your ethics course from The Institutes and the Stats course, some schools consider stats a math, some a business requirement. 

However, this is where I get a little more confused. Your ESC US History 1 and World of Art are what schools generally would consider Liberal Arts yet they are not marked as such. Secondly, Procedural Law / Substantive Law / Terrorism Response / Bioterrorism are not something that would generally be considered Liberal Arts (Art/Literature/Philosophy/Natural Sciences/Social Sciences/) etc but more along the lines of an applied professional requirement for a degree program. You said these were marked or added by yourself or is this an official evaluation you got from the ESC mentor? 

On a separate and unrelated note, are your Frederick Community College credits FEMA courses through independent study?

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Just a quick note: liberal arts generally is the same as general ed.

This is a good mention, thanks. Yes Liberal Arts courses are generally held as the same as Gen Ed as opposed to those which may fall under applied professional. 

I appreciate it.  I have attached my ESC transcript.  My mentor had already plugged in all my other credits but I manually added my ACE and Police transcripts.  You will notice + and * marks next to classes to signify if they are upper level and or liberal arts classes.  I added those marks to the transcripts I manually added so I am not sure if I added the + or * are added or not put in the right spots.  The upper levels I picked from NYPD, I know those are upper levels.  I just don't know what would be considered liberal arts.  I am hoping I am just short the one mandatory degree planning class and some upper level credits.

Thanks a bunch,
Mike

Okay, so Mike, When I'm looking at your Sophia credits it appears that everything you marked for Liberal Arts is correct. Your BUS, ACCT, and PM courses are all generally applied professional credits. The only two I am unsure of (hopefully someone else can chime in) is your ethics course from The Institutes and the Stats course, some schools consider stats a math, some a business requirement. 

However, this is where I get a little more confused. Your ESC US History 1 and World of Art are what schools generally would consider Liberal Arts yet they are not marked as such. Secondly, Procedural Law / Substantive Law / Terrorism Response / Bioterrorism are not something that would generally be considered Liberal Arts (Art/Literature/Philosophy/Natural Sciences/Social Sciences/) etc but more along the lines of an applied professional requirement for a degree program. You said these were marked or added by yourself or is this an official evaluation you got from the ESC mentor? 

On a separate and unrelated note, are your Frederick Community College credits FEMA courses through independent study?

Just realized the attachment says non-official, my bad. Let me know your thoughts but the Sophia credits look spot on.

Thanks for the insight.  The FEMA classes were transferred into Frederick Community College a million years ago from FEMAs independent study section.  All the classes on my transcript besides the NYPD and ACE Evaluation were evaluated and placed on my transcript by my mentor at ESC.  The NYPD and ACE portion was placed on my transcript by me.  I am hoping all I need is Upper Level courses.  All my upper level classes via the police department are considered criminal justice classes.  I just do not know yet if any fall into the required classes I need to take in my concentration area.  So my company pays for 6 credits a term so I plan on just taking classes I think would fit until I find out from my mentor next term what falls where.

Thanks again,
Mike