Does anyone has any experience with COSC BSIS or BSIS/Business program. I have accumulated credits in Computer related courses and also have business courses. Could one get a degree from COSC in IS and Business combining the two types of credits in their program. any help would be appreciated. thanks.
Why not get it from the horse's mouth? My Charter Oak experience was with the Information Systems Studies concentration. They're incredibly responsive and helpful, if I were you I'd simply contact them and ask your questions. -=Steve=-
Greetings, Just for the record, the only Bachelor degrees offered by Charter Oak State College (www.cosc.edu) are the BSGA (Bachelor of Science in General Studies) and the BAGS (Bachelor of Arts ...). They do allow/require bachelor student to select a "concentration". See http://www.cosc.edu/Advising/Degreerequirements.cfm
thanks for the info. I have discussed this with COSC earlier about the degree title. Now as far as I remember they allow multiple concentrations. This would be good as I wont waste credits when chosing one or the other concentrations, rather would be able to use both. I need to get confirmation from them on this.
Greetings, I hate to harp on trivial inaccuracies, but I'm just not sure they are trivial. <g> COSC (www.cosc.edu) does allow "multiple" (if you consider two -- or so? -- multiple) concentrations (i.e. a dual degree (term?)), and they do have an Individual Studies concentration which can consist of what would otherwise be bits of other concentrations. AFAIK, one can't, however, graduate with a COSC BSGS by unrestrainedly combining concentration requirements. For example, meeting 60% of the IS concentration requirements and 40% of the CSS concentration requirements doesn't get one a "BSGS with 60/40 concentration in IS/CSS" Cordially, Richard Kanarek P.S. It would seem that I may have stumbled upon the answer to your original question. Your original question, as I interpret it, was whether you could get a degree by combining your previous business classes and your previous computer technology classes. Certainly, COSC's Individual Studies concentration would be an option for you. I've always thought that the title "BSGS with a Concentration in Individual Studies consisting of <subject> & <subject>" (or suchlike) was rather lacking in panache and unlikely to get employers stumbling over one another in a mad dash to hire. Then again, I've often been wrong, and a valid degree is always (indeterminately) better than no degree at all. Presumably, you're aware that the concentration requirements can be found at: http://www.cosc.edu/Forms/concentration.cfm and the 2002-2004 College Catalog (Calendar, if you're British) can be found at: http://www.cosc.edu/forms/cat0204.pdf
Whether that matters or not depends on the position and employer. You can look at job listings for the type of position you'd be interested in and see if it requires "a" bachelors degree or if it requires a degree in a specific major or one of a restricted list of majors even if you already have years of on the job experience in the field. I've seen some job listings that list a major, but also say something else like "or equivelent experience." If you already have real world experience in the job field and have proven you can do the work, and they still only hire people who have one specific major, that would show they just have an inflexible beurocracy and it may not be where you want to work. If you are inexperienced and the employer expects that you were "trained" in the job skill from the school, then wanting a specific, related major makes more sense.
