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Provider: Sophia.org
Course: Taking Charge of Your Economic Future
Course Content: PDF/text; no video or audio.
Final Exam Content: There is no final Milestone exam. The last thing you need to do is a Touchstone (spreadsheet), though each unit does have its own Milestone.
Final Exam Content vs Course Content/Practice Exams: Pretty well matched, though the sheer amount of material covered in units 3 and 4 meant that a couple of the Milestone questions came out of left field. I still managed to get an average of 90% in my Milestones, though. 
Time Taken On Course: A couple of days, working off and on.
Familiarity With Subject Before Course: I try to be financially literate, so I was fairly aware of things like how insurance worked and how to make a budget.
Pitfalls, High Points, Things Others Should Know: If you are a mature student, don't get lulled into a false sense of security by how easy units 1 and 2 are. Units 1 and 2 should be pretty easy for most adults; these are things you probably already know. Units 3 and 4 cover the things you wish someone had taught you earlier (like how to choose a retirement account and how writing a will works) and there is a lot of information here. I would highly recommend saving the PDFs for this course to be able to refer to the information in the future. There is a lot of good financial advice here and it's in a MUCH easier to understand format than articles on Bloomberg or Forbes.
1-10 Difficulty Level: 2-3 for adults 25+, 4-5 for students fresh out of high school.

If you've ever seen people tweeting about how they learned in school that mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell but they never learned things like how money works, THIS IS THE CLASS EVERYONE WANTS. Even if this class doesn't fit into your degree plan specifically, I really recommend making the time to take it anyway. It's not super long and it packs in a lot of information.