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

[Ares]

But you know FULL well there are going to be a tons of people on here who fully believe these classes are just as good as the "real" version. That's where the delusion starts.

You've alluded to that several times, but I have yet to see anyone suggest that these courses are "the same" as what you consider to be "the real version." And what you're misunderstanding, is that no one cares. 

If you expected online courses for as low as $79/month to have the same length and depth as single university courses that cost thousands of dollars on their own and/or are taught by nursing schools or medical schools, then that was your mistake. 

Everyone accepts the courses for what they are. You're the only one having a hard time doing that.

They are scammy courses, which is why only a handful of schools with non-terrible reputations accept them en masse. I got it.

Again,  you speak for YOURSELF. But many people whose only college experience is Sophia and the half ass courses UMPI courses legitimately believe they are "just as good". This has been repeated many many times here, on Reddit, Discord etc etc. It doesn't dawn on them that earning 16 legitimate "college" credits in a week is a ludicrous concept.

So if you know and I know legit medically oriented schools won't accept them (except the dogshit WGU nursing program), why would Sophia bother to make them? There are already science options on the site that fulfill the gen ed check box.

I have taken traditional courses at a premier 4-year University and have done many Sophia courses. For some GEC courses, I learned more in a few Sophia courses than I did at the University and for others it lets you just get the course you are never going to use again out of the way. At University I had a course where my entire grade revolved around one project and two exams but I had to sit through a semester of pointless Monday morning 8:30 AM lectures where I learned almost nothing. I had another University course in Computer Graphic Design where I had to teach myself the course because the teacher was a foreigner with a heavy accent. I am not sure how that is different than a Sophia course? As I said before Sophia is like the cliff notes version of a college course.