TAMUC Competency Based Program List

[christinadq]

I cant figure out how to upload the email screenshot, but here is the text version of the email I received a couple days ago. Maybe this was already known, but definitely not to me.


September 16, 2022
Greetings,
The University Catalog prescribes all requirements that must be met for graduation. The "Advanced Level Requirements specifies that students are required to complete 36 semester hours of upper-level (300-400-level courses). Courses transferred in from a community college cannot meet this requirement. Students in competency-based programs within the College of Innovation of Design will be held to this requirement. In some cases, this may create an opportunity to take additional Professional Development Elective courses to round-out your education while meeting graduation requirements.
Your advisor will reach out should your degree plan need to be altered with additional Professional Development Elective courses.
I wish you well this term as you continue to work towards your graduation goals. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to me.

That sounds like it was an oversight on their part in their program design before with the CID programs.  The Bachelor of General Studies did say it on their page, but the BAAS Org Leadership did not (previously).

UNT has a BAAS program that accepts Coursera credits and they indicate that 36 UL hours must be taken at UNT for graduation.  It's a very expensive degree ($330 per credit hour) and not one that we have considered seriously because of the other options out there.  BUT there is precedence within the Texas system for requiring 36 UL hours AND requiring them to be taken at the home university (UNT allows 12 hours to transfer from another university).