Excelsior - Math/QReasoning requirement

The Excelsior catalog is unlcear on this (at least to me). Will Excelsior's Quantitative Reasoning requirement suffice the Manth requirement?

I could pass the College Math CLEP, but I do not want too many credits without letter grades on my transcript. A local community college has a class called Quantitative Reasoning starting soon for 18$ (I love CA CC's). I'm sure this fills the QR requirement for Excelsior, but is the QR requirement part of the math requirement or are they seperate?

Any help/clarification is appreciated,
Chris

 

What degree are you pursuing at Excelsior? Not, I presume, the same one you're pursuing at Charter Oak?

 

Old signature! Changed concentration at Charter Oak to History and I am currently applying to Excelsior for a major in Lib. Studies. I'll finish the degree with Exclesior first and then move on to Charter Oaks requirements for History. I'm waiting on Charter Oak to get back to me with what they want from me, regarding this proposal. I'll probably have to take a couple more exams, but that's no biggie.

COSC would not let me double major, but I'm not sure I spoke to someone "in the know." Anyways, I kind of wanted to get two degrees from different colleges anyway. I'm not sure why I want to though.

 

OK, so there's the "Quantitative Reasoning Requirement", which you can satisy with any mathematics or statistics course, 2 semester-hours or longer; and the "Natural Sciences/Mathematics Requirement", which is for between 6 and 12 semester-hours of natural science or math courses.

There is no other "Math Requirement": you can get your degree with only one math course and some natural science courses.

If you're asking whether the credits from the course you use to satisfy the "Quantitative Reasoning Requirement" also count towards the "Natural Sciences/Mathematics Requirement", the answer is yes.

> I am currently applying to Excelsior for a major in Lib. Studies.

Um, there are a couple of reasons not to call Excelsior's BA or BS in Liberal Studies, a "major in Liberal Studies".

One is that at Excelsior, the requirements for the specific majors (Biology, Chemistry, Music, etc.) are set out in the Liberal Arts catalogue http://www.excelsior.edu/pdf/Liberal_Arts_Catalog.pdf; and if you don't fulfill any of them, you are deemed to graduate without a major.

The other is that at California universities, "Liberal Studies" refers to a specific degree program for prospective elementary school teachers (see, for example, http://dus.sdsu.edu/liberalstudies/), requiring specific courses. Having taken these courses exempts prospective elementary school teachers from an exam they would otherwise have to take, the CSET.

Needless to say, you wouldn't get this waiver with an Excelsior College degree in Liberal Studies, unless you chose your courses very carefully.

 

Thanks for the answer and the info.

It seems I confused "Lib Arts" with "Lib Studies." Back to the drawing board.

 

> It seems I confused "Lib Arts" with "Lib Studies."

Excelsior College itself uses those 2 terms indifferently. My wife's "Evaluation Summary" says both "BS - Liberal Studies" and "Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts".

Just don't call "Liberal (whatever)" the "major", and you'll be fine.

 

Greetings.

You can't earn a "double major" from Charter Oak State College (www.cosc.edu) because all of COSC's bachelor's degrees are Bachelor of General Studies degrees (http://www.cosc.edu/enrolled/bacca_deg_requirements.htm).
You can, however, get a dual concentration degree, however their standard recommendation (AFAIK) is that you pursue further education at graduate school.


Cordially,
Richard Kanarek

 

cmt wrote:

> I do not want too many credits without letter grades on my
> transcript.

You may be worrying too much about this. See Steve Levicoff's message "GPA? We don' need no stinkin' GPA!":
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/studentsoftesc/message/741