Thursday, May 7, 2009

What am I studying for 180+ credit hours?

College Certificate

Small Business Management.................24

Personal Training....................................15

Web Technologies...................................33

Associate Degrees

Electronic Engineering Technology..........68

Associate in Arts, Gen Ed..........................60

Total Credit Hours = 200

Now, just going by the school catalog, I'd be taking 200 credit hours BUT, some (not alot, but some) of the classes that I take will apply to more than one degree/certificate that I want to obtain while a couple of places I am given the choise which classes to take pertaining to a certain area. (i.e. SBM, Cert allows me to pick between Human Resource Management and Intro. to Customer Service, I can pick two of several classes for Web Tech to fill in for my electives) where such a option is afforded to me, then I will definetely be looking to classes that will serve a double purpose.

Some might say that it'd' be dumb of me NOT to take the electives an AA degree affords you and use them, but those credit hours are spent. My hearts set on my AA electives. The classes that I plan to take as my A.A. electives are things that I am both passionate about and feel that I will enjoy. In case your wondering what my Electives will be they're French I & II (8), Spanish I & II, (8) Drawing I & II (6) and Judo I & II (2) = 24 hr. worth of electives..

The classes I only have to take once, that apply to more than one degree/certificate are:

College Composition (AA/AS)
Concepts for Positive Living (AA/AS)
Computer Literacy (AS/SMB but I'm just going to test out of this class)
Intro to Networks and Telecommunications (WT/AS)
Intro to Business (PT, SBM)
Microcomputer Applications for Business (PT/SBM)

I haven't yet sorted out the different options for my electives, but if there are any classes that I can take to serve more than one degree/certification, then I will, but my AA electives are hopefully, set in stone.

So, if you subtract those 6 classes which I wont have to retake then that is 18 hours that I dont have to take, so I suppose that is about 182 credit hours that I'm hoping to take in a span of 2.5 years.




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