What courses would you like to see on Sophia/SDC/etc?

[ss20ts]

Why more legal and medical courses?

They're very interesting and the knowledge applies to two big pieces of modern life. Here are the health/medical courses I'd like to see:

First Aid/CPR

First Aid/CPR Lab (a lab for first aid would be awesome!)

Radiology

Immunology

Histology

Principles of Genetics

Principles of Genetics Lab

Pharmacology

Psychopharmacology

Pathology

Psychopathology

Pathophysiology

Biochemistry

Biochemistry Lab

Organic Chemistry I

Organic Chemistry I Lab

Organic Chemistry II

Organic Chemistry II Lab

Physics I

Physics I Lab

Physics II

Physics II Lab

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Quantitative Reasoning

Cultural Anthropology

What would these transfer to? No serious programs would accept these as prerequisites. It's a waste of their time.

Radiology? What would this class entail? You can't seriously think you'd learn anything meaningful from this without a significant background in medicine. Even rad techs really cant diagnose what they are seeing aside from pattern recognition.. It also requires extensive background clinical knowledge and a patient story to piece things together..hence why radiologists have to go to med school and do an intern year.

Histology, Immunology...Pharmacology are all the same. Literally almost every class you listed would be a waste of their time and not transfer to anything other than a generic science credit for places like SNHU or UMPI.

They require significant background and concurrent knowledge bases to be useful.

Its like trying to join a college baseball team without ever playing in high school...

I have taken doctoral level classes in many of these subjects by the way...the fact that they would be on Sophia is sort of unserious.

They create these classes for a PURPOSE and if no schools recognize them, there is zero point. Just for funsies doesnt cut it.

With regard to relevance, we have to look at this a bit deeper. A lot if not all of the courses on that list are courses one would take in medical school, but they are also offered outside of medical school as single courses in the United States at a number of schools. The same can be said for nursing school with regard to the courses places like Sophia and Straighterline already offer. 

The rigor between a sophia offering and a medical school is equivalent is lightyears apart... let's get real. Go sit in on a med school class and get back to me. Take Step 1 and get back to me.

There are plenty of books and youtube videos someone could look into if they want a basic introduction, no need for an ACE credit class that will go nowhere and cost thousands to create. Its not even worth CME....

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First Aid/CPR

First Aid/CPR Lab (a lab for first aid would be awesome!)

What good is First Aid without physically taking the course? Unless you're physically doing the procedures how are you truly learning how to do it?

Straighterline First Aid/CPR has an assignment where the student records a video in which they demonstrate a procedure, and it additionally embeds a requirement that the student earn a recognized CPR certification from a third party.

I teach BLS/ACLS, this is honestly ridiculous. If it's not from the AHA, it's useless. There is a reason why skill checkoffs are almost ALWAYS in person.

I repeated a few classes on Sophia that I took many years ago and was shocked by how little content the courses had. Their classes aren't 3 credits worth compared to classes at a college. I mean I took College Algebra on Sophia and at a community college where I had far more coursework. 15 weeks worth of actual work. The Human Biology class is a complete joke for a bio class.