Excelsior classifies "Child Development" as "Education"

As you may recall, Excelsior College offers 3 extents of subject concentration in its arts & science degrees:

"Depth Area": 12 semester-hours in a subject, including 3 upper-level. 2 Depth Areas are required for a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science, but they are not notated on the diploma or on the transcript.
"Area of Focus": 21 semester-hours in a subject, including 6 upper-level. Areas of Focus are notated on the transcript.
"Major" (formerly called "Concentration"): 30 semester-hours in a subject, including 15 upper-level, with specific requirements for each major. Majors are notated on the diploma and on the transcript.
http://www.excelsior.edu/pdf/Liberal_Arts_Catalog.pdf

Rosie had fulfilled Depth Areas in Psychology, Education, and Spanish. She also had some Child Development courses, which, on her previous Student Status Reports, were not counted with the Education courses. We had expected that, when evaluating her latest Psychology exam, Excelsior would elevate her Depth Area in Psychology to an Area of Focus.

They did so. The pleasant surprise was that, in the same evaluation (although the Psychology exam was the only new credit, and although Rosie had not petitioned for a change), Excelsior spontaneously re-classified her Child Development courses under Education, and awarded her an Area of Focus in Education as well.

Excelsior does not offer a Major in Education, so Rosie now has the highest available named extent of concentration in Education.

 

BSL is really "liberal"

Regents (in 98) gave me a depth area in sociology for my BSL. They included two anthroplogy courses in that depth area. They are somwheat related but most schools wouldn't go that far.

FYI - my second area was psychology. They gave me 3hrs each for a UMUC class called "Adult psychopathology" and the Regents exam "abnormal psychology". The catch? They are basically the same class. The book I used was assigned for the earlier class and recommended as a text for the exam. My advisor recommended the exam so I could finish. I'd feel guilty but I figure the nearly 50 hours of "applied professional" credit that didn't count makes up for it. I've since CLEP'd some more psychology and added it post-graduation to my transcript. Just in case!

(I've been adding credit because it just might help with teaching content area certification, the tests are free for military...)