XAMK question

[k-k-k-katy]

Wasn't sure if I should start a brand-new thread or just bump this one...wanted to let anyone interested in the XAMK RA credits know that the XAMK Gerontological Nursing course came into TESU as GER-299, and with appeal, fulfilled my Area of Study course TESU GER-312 Biological Aspects of Aging.  I just had to take an extra UL Coopersmith PSY course to make up the UL deficit.

BTW, how did you go forth into "appealing" that course?  Which degree are you going for that requires GER courses for the AOS?

Woot woot that is good to know! I've been working on some of the Master's courses to see how those turn out.

Awesome, please let us know how that goes, it would be interesting to see what they come in as or whatever.

Thankfully, the course came into TESU as GER-299 which was very helpful.  Then, I asked my instructor from XAMK if she could provide an "official" syllabus (it corresponds almost exactly to TESU's course) and she did.  I attached that to my "appeal" email to my advisor.  I heard back in just a couple of days.  I am going for the liberal studies "health and wellness" degree and the GER-312 is an area of study requirement.  I had to make up the UL deficit by taking an UL Coopersmith PSY course.

Would you mind emailing me the syllabus? I took the course to transfer to TESU for the exact same thing

Sorry I just saw your message but I cannot reply since you have private messages disabled I will answer your Q's here though!
 
In terms of kin/biomechanics, I am waiting to see if XAMK makes English versions. They actually have Finnish versions already, and in general they are slowly translating their courses into English from what I can tell. So maybe in the near future? I will keep my fingers crossed for that lol.

However! You could ask your advisor about Coopersmith Clinical & Exercise Physiology I (SCI-303) and Clinical & Exercise Physiology II (SCI-304)? Both are upper level too. Maybe they would be willing to work with you on that?

If I cannot wait for XAMK any longer, I plan to argue that at least one of multidisciplinary assessment of functional abilities or cardiovascular and respiratory rehabilitation should count for FIT 230/250 or similar. I took the first one last semester and the other I am taking right now. If TESU says no, I will PLA it rather than taking a class at TESU - especially since I have the stuff from those two courses to build a portfolio with. I am not doing the 16 credit semester since mil-adjacent folk can TECEP their way to residency.

As a last resort I will take the class in Finnish and just pay the transcript translation fee though. I took Gerontological Nursing in Russian and used the Chrome browser extension to translate the webpages. It worked fine!

I've already appealed to the Dean to accept those specific Coopersmith courses without success.  As "the experts" here pointed out to me a year or so ago, this particular degree is NOT an alternative friendly choice, and as they almost always are, they were correct in their assessment and advice.  TESU honestly expects the exact courses for the area of study courses and I have not encountered any "give" at all  on their end.  That is why, finally, getting one course (Gerontology) that wasn't "exact" accepted is so amazing.  I'm fascinated by the idea of trying a course in Finnish (with translation help), wow.  Would LOVE to find all the area of study courses at XAMK (specifically Men's and Women's Health).  I would definitely go that route, but they would have to be course specific.  Thanks for the tip, I'm heading over there to look at their Kinesiology course.  I've turned on my pm, sorry about that.