Long time lurker with my first question

Good evening everyone!

I am a long time lurker (years) of this site. I started here with my associates and have now completed a bachelors and will graduate from Columbia Southern in July with my MBA.

I have agreed to teach business courses at my local community college this summer/fall and would also like to teach history courses as well. I need 18 hours to satisfy the schools requirement but have very tight finances at the moment. Does anyone know of inexpensive schools that offer history courses? Both NA and RA accrediation would work fine as the college has already approved my NA degree as acceptable.

I want to wholeheartedly thank everyone who has made this site what it is and please know that there are no doubt thousands of individuals such as myself that have been so well served by the information in these forums that we have had little need to register in order to pose a question, and in my case, not capable enough to help!

Sincerely,
Ruble

 

Hi Ruble,

Welcome aboard and congrats on your great accomplishments! I am also glad to see you teaching at a CC with acceptance of your NA degree. There is often a debate on whether NA degrees can be used for teaching, so I am glad you chimed in. As far as your other questions, I will think it over and get back with you, my brain has turned off at this moment in time. In the meantime, I am sure others will chime in on cheap courses you can take.

Take care,

Abner

P.S. Another CSU grad, Jamie Gauthier is also teaching at a CC, and I think maybe even a University. That guy is real go getter.

 

I just wanted to give you something to think about. Your local community college might accept NA credits to be eligible to teach but not all colleges do. If you really enjoy teaching history, you might decide later to branch out and teach for other schools online. These other schools might not be near you but could possibly require RA credits.

If you are going to put in the effort to take the courses, you might want to consider going RA from the start. That all said, that doesn't make me right. I was just giving you something to ponder.

If your MBA isn't RA, the additional 18 credits being NA might not matter I guess. If a school didn't accept NA credits, they wouldn't accept your MBA I suppose. Still, you'd be 18 credits closer to an RA masters in history if you decided to go that route down the road.

I guess the important question is how cheap are you looking? Western New Mexico University offers RA credits in history for around $425 a course incl. fees. They have a great MA in Interdisciplinary Studies offered online. You can pair history up with another subject such as political science, MIS, Psychology, etc. and teach those courses at a community college as well.

 

Congratulations on your academic accomplishments and welcome to the boards! What took you so long to speak up? So, you find yourself in a situation of expecting to complete an MBA soon and wishing to teach history classes as well. Interestingly enough, I happen to hold two MBA degrees and wish to teach history classes as well. So it appears that we are in the same boat. Following are some master's degrees in history available by distance learning. Not sure which qualify as inexpensive in your book.

American Military University www.apus.edu
Austin Peay State University www.apsu.edu
California State University Dominguez Hills www.csudh.edu
Fort Hays State University www.fhsu.edu
Goddard College www.goddard.edu
Goucher College www.goucher.edu
Harrison Middleton University www.chumsci.edu
Harvard Extension School www.extension.harvard.edu
Norwich University www.norwich.edu
Prescott College www.prescott.edu
Regis University www.regis.edu
Sam Houston State University www.shsu.edu
Savannah College of Arts & Design www.scad.edu
Southwestern Assemblies of God University www.sagu.edu
Syracuse University www.syr.edu
Union Institute & University www.myunion.edu
University of West Alabama www.uwa.edu
Western Kentucky University www.wku.edu
Western New Mexico University www.wnmu.edu

Additionally, both the MA in Political & Justice Studies of Governors State University www.govst.edu and the MA in Government of Yorktown University www.yorktownuniversity.com can be so arranged as to have 18 hours of history courses within the degree.

 

Thank you all for the promptness and depth of your replies.

Bazonkeers:

Thank you very much for the info. I had never really contemplated receiving the MA in History, only taking enough to qualify me to teach. You're 100% correct, I should look at completing the 6 at an RA school "just in case".

At one time I had registered at APSU for their military history program but ended up going to CSU for my MBA due to the 8 week course structure and their friendliness toward military.

Ted:

Thank you for the great links! I have some digging to do and will let you know soon.

On a side note, as I said earlier I live in rural TN. My hometown happens to be where Sgt. Alvin C. York was born. If you ever find yourself stuck for WWI paper ideas let me know. I'm on the board of the Sgt. York Foundation and am good friends with Dr. Michael Birdwell, the official historian for Sgt. York's life. I can put you in touch with two of Sgt. York's sons and one daughter for some good sources as well . I have helped a few friends out this way. It's a win win for me, I get to promote his legacy and help people out.

 

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Welcome Ruble! If your MBA is NA, that means your CC business courses are not transfer credit-they are in the applied science division- but I'm betting this isn't the case in the history department. I'd bet they actually won't let you teach history with 18 NA credits. (Even if someone told you yes, they are mistaken) You may want to strongly consider finding as school that is RA and will let you in with your NA MBA.

I know lots of people here have "lists" of such things LOL. I only know about www.apus.edu which is the American Military University and American Public University. They are affordable, I think they were about $250 per grad credit last time I looked - and they have cool classes (not your run of the mill). There are lots of people here who have taken classes there and can comment.

 

Ruble, many people at RA colleges and universities don't understand the accreditation issue. My brother is a big shot tenured professor and when I queried him on what kind of accreditation is best, he said "national." He didn't know or understand. He'd never heard the term "regional" accreditation. As most people at this forum understand, national accreditation is slang for DETC. I said all that to say that whoever told you that your regionally accredited community college will accept DETC credits for teaching purposes may not be fully informed themselves.

 

Ruble, I think Jennifer is correct. You'd most likely need RA to teach history, even at a CC. How about the Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at Western New Mexico University http://www.wnmu.edu/DgrPlans/dplan2004grad.htm#interdisc that a few posters here are doing. You could combine 18 hours in history with education or technology or something else. Then you might be able to teach in business, history and a third area.

I have also taken classes at APUS and I think that the programs there might suit you also.

 

Thanks for this info on Sgt. York.

Roscoe