Starting This Journey

[rachel83az]

For Pierpont, you'd do the following:
This course at ASU: https://ea.asu.edu/courses/technical-sup...s-cis-194/
At Sophia, you'd do Communication at Work & Visual Communication for the English/Communication requirement. For Math/Science, do Algebra (it's literally the easiest Algebra course you can take) + either Environmental Science or Human Biology. For Social Sciences, do both US History courses. Then do Intro to Information Technology. This gets you to 21 credits + 1 credit at ASU. Now, take literally anything else to bring the total up to 60 credits.

This seems to imply that 1 graded RA credit + 59 Sophia credits (or 12 Google IT credits + 47 Sophia credits) is enough. Has the requirement for 12 total RA credits, with at least one graded, gone away? If so, and assuming all courses can be completed the first month, this is an entire associate's degree for just over $100!

At this time, Pierpont is a bit... different when it comes to designating what does and does not qualify as "RA credit". Sophia is good enough, but doesn't count as graded credits. UExcel exams are graded credits but they don't count because they're a single exam. So the requirement for 12 RA credits hasn't entirely gone away... it's just interpreted differently. Yes, 59 or 60 Sophia credits + 1 graded non-exam RA credit from ASU, Clackamas, or anywhere else is currently sufficient to get the Pierpont Associate.