Excelsior evaluation of my credits

Below are the results of Excelsior College's unofficial evaluation of my existing credits.


Listed below are the requirements you still need to complete:

General Education (Arts & Sciences Requirement)
14.33 semester hours at the upper level

Distribution Requirements
0.99 in Humanities
2.25 in Social Science/History

Written English Requirement
3.00 semester hours in Written English


Depth Requirements
A depth in the Arts & Sciences



My question at this stage is: can part of the Depth Requirement be satisfied by the General Education requirements, or is the Depth Requirement (being 12 credits min in a single arts and science disciplein, at least 3 cr at upper level AND 12 cr min in a single applied professional or arts and science discipline, at least 3 cr at upper level) a totally separate requirement?

 

The bachelor's degrees in liberal arts areas require two depth areas. In the BA the depths must both be arts and science - in the BS one can be applied professional.

Your requirement for one depth in the arts and sciences implies to me that you've met the other in applied professional.

You may use the remaining arts and science requirement to meet that depth - you may also use courses that have already been applied to your degree program if they fit.

The only way that we can offer specific advice here is to see your full evaluation summary and to then determine if you have a portion of that depth already met and only need a few other courses or if you need the full 12 hours in one area (unlikely) with 3 hours upper level.

Also, those distribution requirements are not in addition to the upper level. The best plan would be to try to meet those distribution requirements by taking upper level courses. An example: the written English can be met using BYU's English 312 Persuasive Writing. This would give you 3 hours upper level AND 3 hours written English.

Another example: You need 2.25 in social science/history. LSU has an online course History 4052 American Revolution that would give you 3 hours upper level AND 3 hours social science/history.

Either would ALSO meet the upper level requirement for a depth as well.

You have very few hours left to complete - you can carefully craft these to meet multiple requirements.

 

Does Excelsior provide the details after I enrol? Because right now all I have is what I've pasted in my OP.

Music to my ears

 

Excelsior will provide you with a class-by-class list of the credit they have accepted and in which distribution they've placed it.

When appropriate, you can argue with them about where they put credit. My wife had a marine science put in applied professional because someone there thought it was military related and not about ocean biology. Point is to look at your evaluation very carefully.

Now, let's say you already have 12 hours of undergrad history but none are upper level. The evaluation you recv'd would not say "you need an upper level history to make that a depth" but instead would just say the depth hasn't been met. This is the reason that a review of the full evaluation is needed to see where you stand on depth requirements.

It's not a bad idea also to consider an Area of Focus if you're doing either the BA or BS in Liberal Studies (no major). It's only 21 hours and you already have 12 in a depth area.