Master's degree with transfer credits?

I have read much about various liberal studies programs at the graduate level (Fort Hays, Excelsior, TESC, etc.) but none that I've looked at so far at first glance seem to let me do what I have in mind.

At the end of this semester, I will be 11 credits into an M.S. program in radiochemistry/health physics at Colorado State (B&M). I also have 6 credits of graduate work done at AMU (DETC, RA candidate).

Is there a fairly rapid and inexpensive way, either NA or RA, for me to consolidate these 17 credits, take some core classes, and come out with SOMETHING at the Master's level?

The reason I ask is that I am going a different direction with my career (accounting degree from Excelsior), but I don't want to throw away the graduate credits and it would be nice to have an MA/MS on the old resume in something.

Thanks in advance!

-Jassen

 

How about a self-designed MALS at Excelsior with a history/development of technology or technology ethics slant?

You could try taking three out of the core courses MLS 680: Technology, Ethics, and Society; MLS 631: Revolutions in Knowledge; MLS 633: Darwinism and Its Influence; MLS 686: Science and the Literary Imagination. Then add MLS 675: Technology, Change, and Global Implications and MLS 676: Current Problems to your CSU credits. Then finish with a capstone project on, for instance, Darwinism or ethics as it relates to the study of health physics.

It'd be difficult to come up with the justification for the core of the CSU courses, but not beyond the bounds of possibility.

https://www.excelsior.edu/portal/page?_pageid=57,75399&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

Angela -- now scurrying back to her own neglected MA essays.

 

JassenB,

Agilham has your answer, Excelsior is your best transfer route, perhaps Mountain State could also be of some use, upon approval you can transfer in a train load of hours for a Interdisciplinary studies degree....if not mistaken you can go a M.A or M.S. route.

As too Fort Hays...stay away! They say up to 12-15 hours of transfer credit, but leave that call up too the department head, and from everyone I talked with while taking classes at Fort Hays, no-one and I do mean no-one, ever got close to transfering 15 hours. I was lucky enough to get 9 under the radar screen and that was met with grumbling apprehension!
Being a history major, I found those folks in the department ok, however, there is those "core" classes you must take and that area of Fort Hays is a train wreck! I had one such class this past summer, the instructor was first time teaching, each class was at least 50 strong and he was "teaching" 3 such courses. 50% of our work was graded in the last two weeks of class! And when I questioned the student faculty ratio to the department head he responeded it was 20-1! Thats when I decided someone at Fort Hays was "huffin" a little too much paint!
Best, Gavin