Excelsior credit evaluation

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  1. Ron Dotson

    Ron Dotson New Member

    When credit is transfered into Excelsior, is upper level course-work (from, say, Ft. Hays State University) usually awarded upper level credit? Thanks.

    Ron Dotson
     
  2. wfready

    wfready New Member

    They would have to accept SOME upper level credit considering their degree programs require some sort of upper level credit. Maybe I didn't understand the question. Does Ft. Hayes have upper level courses that are really easy or something? Don't get me wrong, I am sure Excelsior has people that actually look at the course in question (Sylabus or an example of one of it's exams) and judges whether or not it is upper level. I would imagine they don't just award upper level credit just because it has a course number beginning w/ a 3 or 4. I could be wrong though.

    Best Regards,
    Bill
     
  3. MarkIsrael@aol.com

    [email protected] New Member

    "For example, Principles of Management, Cultural Anthropology, and Art of the Western World are always considered lower-level, no matter what course number the offering college assigns to the course. Courses offered at junior colleges or community colleges are never considered upper-level at Excelsior College." -- http://www.excelsior.edu/la_faqs.htm

    My wife Rosie transferred upper-level credits to Excelsior College from various schools, and Excelsior has now classified all of them as upper-level.

    For one course, we had to petition: Rosie took a course from Western Illinois University, "University 422: Race to Save the Planet", based on the PBS telecourse. WIU's transcripts suffer from a character limit on course titles, so the course appeared on WIU's transcript as "SAVE THE PLANET UNIV 422". Excelsior initally classified this as lower-level "Applied Professional" credit. There is a DANTES exam "Environment and Humanity: the Race to Save the Planet", for which Excelsior awards 3 lower-level credits in Natural Sciences. Rosie sent a pointer to WIU's Web page with the course description (http://www.wiu.edu/users/miisp/courses/content.html), argued that it was equivalent to the DANTES exam, and asked Excelsior to re-classify it as lower-level Natural Sciences on that basis. The result? Excelsior re-classified it as upper-level Natural Sciences.
     
  4. nobycane

    nobycane New Member

    That is not exactly true though Mark.

    I transferred into Excelsior College with 157 qtr cr hrs from a community college and 38 qtr cr hrs from a unviversity...and Excelsior College took three classes that I took atr the community college and transfered them as "Upper Level Credits"!!!

    They were Capstone (Indpt Study Courses) Courses in Math, Geography and Physics.


    They were level number 290 for the capstone courses...and they were accepted as 300 level courses!!!!
     
  5. decimon

    decimon Well-Known Member

    That's interesting. The local community college has Analytic Geometry and Calulus I, II, and III, Differential Equations, and Engineering Physics I, II, and III. All are four-credit courses and part of a pre-engineering program. I wonder how Excelsior, and COSC, would actually treat those courses.
     
  6. nobycane

    nobycane New Member

    I actually had Calculus 1,2,3 & Differential Equations (aka Calc 4) at my community college.......

    Excelsior treated them as Lower Level Undergrad courses... because they were labeled as Math 151,152,153, & 254!!!

    They same thing with my Calculus based Physics courses too:
    I had Physics 161,162,163 at the community college.....and was tranferred as Lower Level Undergraduate courses!!

    BUT........my capstone (indpt stdy) courses in Math, Geography, & Physics, which were numbered as:

    Math 290...........Geog 290........Phys 290

    all receieved as UPPER LEVEL UNDERGRADUATE!!!!!!!!

    strangest thing!

    Not complaining though.........I took it for what I got!

    Now, I am doing Portfoilo Assessments for two Mathematics courses:
    - Partial Differential Equations
    - Probability & Statistics

    I am going to receieve 2.67 sem crs for the PDE, and 6 sem cr hrs for P&S.

    :D
     
  7. Ron Dotson

    Ron Dotson New Member

    Reply to wfready...

    It's not that the Fort Hays course-work is easy, I just questioned the possibility of one school (Excelsior) not assigning upper-level value to another schools course-work. Many of the Ft. Hays Virtual College courses are numbered 5xx and many require no prereqs. I'm working on English (Lit) courses and was unsure if Excelsior would accept them as upper-level work. In fact, upper-level courses are the only credit I can work towards, as I need no more lower-level work. Thanks to all for the replies.

    Ron Dotson
     

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