Quick Classes

Hey guys...

I have aquired 60 credits via a small state college in Nebraska, and in the past 4 months I passed 36 credit hours worth of CLEP exams.

This leaves me with 25 more credits to my Excelsior degree.

I want to get done by May so I can begin graduate classes in the fall.

So here is my plan...I will take the Natural Sciences CLEP, the American Government CLEP, the Drug and Alcohol DANTES, the Management Information Systems DANTES, Money and Banking DANTES....

This would leave me with Six credit hours (Upper level..all six in Arts and Sciences) I would need...(Hopefully before May) I am planning on taking the Civil War and Reconstruction, but many on the board say this is pretty difficult.

The only other DANTES upper level credit would be the RIse and Fall of the Soviet Union, but I wouldn't even know WHERE to begin as instacert doesn't have a program for that exam.


So, this may sound like a stupid question, but I know there are a lot of options out there.

Is there any school that will allow me to take One...possibly two...three credit hour classes and be done in a very short time (one month to two months maximum) if I enrolled within the next week?

The requirements for a class such as this would be:
Somewhat cheap....but speed is main desire
RA (Excelsior..obviously)
Upper level Arts and Sciences
And....if possibly a course in Education Psychology or something like that.

I don't want to take the ECE Exam in Education Psychology, I actually want a class.

If anyone has info that would be great! Thank you

 

If you want to study for Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, you may find some worthwhile info here: http://home.earthlink.net/~hwatts/edu/dantes/471.html

 

You might check out BYU's offerings. They offer a large selection of courses, many at upper division levels. I have also read on this forum (but haven't taken any classes with BYU myself) that some have finished their course in three weeks or so.

hope that helps,
clint

 

There is always LSU - takes about 6 weeks if things go well, also cheap $219 per three credit hour course - including exam fees

 

Quick class, not test and RA, please.

 

Donald Treagold's "Twentieth Century Russia" was the best of four books I read to prepare for the test. It is listed on the exam's official study sheet.

 

"I have aquired 60 credits via a small state college in Nebraska"
What's the name of the college?
Do they offer online classes?
Do you recommend them?

 

There is Texas State University @ San Marcos (formerly Southwest Texas State), which offers inexpensive (under $300) and relatively short correspondence courses. I took the social psychology course to complete an upper level/depth requirement for Excelsior and finished fairly quickly (I think there were 7 lessons and two exams). They have a fairly large catalog of dl upper-level arts and science courses.

I also like LSU's courses, but they take a bit longer to finish.

 

60 days (before May) is pushing timing on most schedules to register for, complete, and have transcript evaluated in any school.

Testing may be your only reliable option. That said, BYU courses can be done quickly -- LSU is going to limit the number of assignments that can be submitted before receiving a grade.

The best bet for fast completion might be something in education (I know, you need arts and science but you might find a cross listed course) that doesn't have many assigments or exams. Be careful you don't register for something with 3 proctored exams if you want to finish it that fast.

The BYU speedback method makes lesson submission and grading very fast. See if you can find something with low lesson count and all lessons speedback such as Psych Stats

or Psych 341 - Personality or Psych 338 Sport Psych.

Tourism in the geography department can't be all that hard and it's all speedback too.

If you're into genealogy, they have an awesome selection and several require no exam. How about English Language Handwriting and Documents--American Emphasis with only 3 submitted speedback assignments and a speedback final. I've done that -- it's not as easy as it sounds. But it's fast if you can sink your teeth into it.

just a few ideas -- good luck

 

I have been to the Texas website and it looks like they have lots of courses but I cannot follow the website at all - especially the course catalogs, anybody know how to decipher the catalog on their.

 

rince,

Looks like it might be easiest to start with the undergrad catalog: http://www.txstate.edu/academicaffairs/UGCAT04-06/TOC04-06.htm

This may help you figure out which courses you want to take and the corresponding course number. Then refer back to the list of available classes.

It's funny, I attended Texas State University back when it was still Southwest Texas State University and still can't understand why they changed their name. Heh. Well, whatever... as long as I remember to write down the new name on future academic applications.

Good luck with completing your program of study!