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  1. buckwheat3

    buckwheat3 Master of the Obvious

    Here's my question: Has anyone ever experienced difficulty transfering a graduate class from UWA to another school?

    I would like too take a few history courses with UWA this summer and transfer them into Mountain State's IDS program, but with UWA's link with CSU's DETC accreditation, I was wondering if that presented any kind of problem with another RA school accepting the class credit?

    I tried the forum search but came up empty handed on the transfer credit question. So I'm left wondering who actually is handling the class instruction and transcript- UWA or CSU???

    Having no idea how intertwined the two are, I was assuming that CSU handles the internet aspects of the course while UWA teaches the course??? Hope someone can shed some light on this!
    best, Gavin
     
  2. cdhale

    cdhale Member

    I have not taken any classes nor obviously tried to transfer them. However, I just sent in my application through CSU and received my reply from UWA. All of my financial aid talk has been with UWA. As I understand it, the degree is totally done via UWA with CSU as the front man. The transcript with say UWA only.

    Thats as I understand it.

    clint
     
  3. mikey2k4

    mikey2k4 New Member

    UWA professors handle the course instruction. The courses are delivered through a blackboard server (bb.uwa.edu).
     
  4. Jodokk

    Jodokk Member

    UWA OK

    I would assume that as an RA school, UWA's credits transfer as well as anyone else's. At least, I'm counting on it. The connection between the two schools was trciky for me as a well, but so far it hasn't meant a single thing in the sense of transferability or consideration. It's a pretty good deal all around.
    Dan B
     
  5. buckwheat3

    buckwheat3 Master of the Obvious

    Thanks!!!
    Once again degree info folks came through!! Soon- this summer I will be taking a few classes with UWA. I was eyeing "The Early South" and the civil war course.....I like the 10 week format!
    Thanks again!
    Gavin
     
  6. Jodokk

    Jodokk Member

    Oh Yeah!

    ten weeks and with semester credit. Sweeeet!
     
  7. Tireman44

    Tireman44 member

    Gavin,

    Watch out for those Civil War courses. They will kill you. I am living proof. I have read 20 books this semester and have one FINAL paper to hand in this Thursday. What is the reading list for your Civil War course? Just curious.
     
  8. buckwheat3

    buckwheat3 Master of the Obvious

    Micheal,
    That I do not know! The Syllabus or reading list is what I always look for, but didnt find a thing....I'm starting to feel like McClellan on a Virgina peninsula!
    Best,
    Gavin
     
  9. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Are you starting to overestimate your enemy's strenth so badly that your boss is having to tell you one of his "leetle stories" about a monkey who was chosen to be the leader of all the animals who demanded that they splice on more and more tail if they want him to be their leader until finally he had so much tail that he suffocated on it?
     
  10. Tireman4

    Tireman4 member

    Amen. I know what you mean. Hang in there. Although the Civil War is not my speciality, I have learned SOOO much more than I ever knew before. There is one thing I will take from History 6393.....I will recognize a model of the book. Sometimes it is right in front of your eyes and other times....I have no clue at all. We have to hand in our compare and contrast papers ( over 3 books) and present it in class Thursday. We have 10 minutes( Dr Glatthaar has said he will time us. If we go over, he will cut us off right there). As for McClellan, he was just gutless. He was anguishing over casualties....letting it get the best of him. According to T.Harry Williams( he was roasted greatly in my class) , McClellan was unfit to command. I would agree with that, although I am not sure if I rank T. Harry Williams high on the totem pole of military historians. Half the time, he didnt know what he was talking about. My two cents gents
     
  11. Tireman4

    Tireman4 member

    Gavin,

    I would surely ask for something. They cant just leave you in the dark. If the reading list is large, it is always good to get the jump on it. This I so know. Fortunately, I am taking an Independent Readings course and an Introduction of Graduate Studies course, so the book list is nominal. I was told I will be working on my dissertation in both classes. Whew. Finally fun time. I would call the professor. I would tell him that you need the reading list.
     
  12. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Correct me if I'm wrong, Tireman, but didn't I somewhere read that your dissertation topic was the WPA project? Did the WPA project have something to do with the gathering of the slave narratives in the 1930s?
     
  13. Tireman4

    Tireman4 member

    You are correct. The Slave Narratives were part of the Federal Writers' Project. My research is over the Texas Federal Writers' Project( The title is The Lone Star on Relief: The Story of the Texas Federal Writers' Project. My dissertation will cover the administrative wing of it. I dealt with the writers in my thesis which covered North Carolina. The Slave Narratives are quite interesting. One tidbit. Some of the writers loaded up recording equipment in the back of a truck( quite rudimentary in those days) and went to tenant farmers( some who were either ex-slaves or children of) and recorded their stories. They were preserved and live in the National Archives to this day. Some of them are at the Library of Congress website.
     
  14. buckwheat3

    buckwheat3 Master of the Obvious

    Tireman,
    Then you must be very familiar with Erskine Calwell & Margaret Bourke-White's "You Have Seen Their Faces"; sharecropper plight in the depression era South... very close to being slave narratives.
     
  15. Tireman4

    Tireman4 member

    Yes I am. Very moving. FYI, there is a documentary coming out in May of 2006 that concerns the Federal Writers' Project. It is a PBS special and parts of my research will be in it. I hope and pray that I am not interviewed for it. I contend that my face was made for radio, not television. The director will be here to interview me for the Texas side of the project....
     
  16. Tireman4

    Tireman4 member

    Oh the title of the documentary is The Writers of the Writers' Project. I should have included it. Sorry
     

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