Third tier class requirements for Ohio

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The carriculum at Ohio specifies 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Tier courses required to meet their Gen Ed requirements. Has anyone had a class transferred/accepted into this 3rd tier slot? The ones they recommend appear to be in-depth, life-, energy-, and enjoyment-sucking courses! Hoping to find something else I can take (or have already taken) that can transfer in.

At this point, I've only applied and had transcripts sent in. I'm waiting to hear back from them. I probably won't be starting core nursing courses until summer. Have stats and nutrition to knock out this spring, so not in a big hurry right now. Hopefully everything else transfers in. May have another class to take, but hopefully not!

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11nick if you are on Facebook there is an online OU Bsn site which is very helpful. I took business communications with statistics and a nursing class this summer. It was very doable as it is only offered as a 15 week class and got a 97% in it taking other classes I have not taken any proctored exams at OU and some of the electives there have proctored exams. I took my electives elsewhere except business communication. None of the nursing classes have proctored exams. Business communications is entirely online with no proctored exams and was very easy

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Woodsyny... would you be able to give the course number of the third tier business communications class you are referring to?

Many thanks.

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PRCM 3250J It is full already in BSN completion and Academic outreach for the spring

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11Nick,

I understand and share some of your frustration about the application process, I was frustrated when I couldn't talk to a human being until I was an official student. My application included as associate degree in health related field, Nursing diploma and I had started an RN to BSN program 15 years ago that was interrupted by family. I approached this degree from the "path of least resistance" angle. I shopped around a bit. the hospital I work at had and education fair which made this really easy. I found the OU accepted the most transfer credits. I have all of my science and statistics classes, OU accepted them to transfer, they don't expire...that was big for me because not all universities were as forgiving. the program at OU turned out for me to be the least amount of credits and dollars to complete my BSN including if I would return to the program I started 15 years ago at a University very close to my house. OU even accepted transfer of an upper level nursing class for what they call Diversity, I had to provide them a syllabus with objectives and assignments but they transferred it in. I was hesitant to join the ranks of the online school environment but so far it has been ok. There are things that are frustrating and there have been some growing pains as I learn to navigate this online education but EVERY program will have its issues. You have to decide what is important to you. AS for that Junior level comp class, I saw a video link somewhere on the OU website in which they state almost every student will have to take this class at OU esp if coming from community college. If you have a previous BS degree chances are you will have a class that qualifies otherwise you will be taking it at OU.

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I've already accepted that I'm going to have to take the Junior level comp class. There was only one other online program that I was seriously considering and applied to. I have since ruled it out and am committed to OU barring unforeseen problems.

Without starting a totally new thread, I'll ask another Gen Ed question about OU.....

They use the most amazingly murky and convoluted wording in both the Nursing and Gen Ed requirements. They don't really come out and explain things as concisely as I could. What, exactly, are the math requirements to graduate from the BSN program? Looking specifically at the Nursing Degree requirements, only Stats is mentioned. But if you look at the Gen Ed page of the catalog (which confuses the hell out of me) it mentions Calc. I don't have Calc. I'm not willing to do Calc, either. That is a deal-killer for me. This dog is too old to learn new tricks. I have college algebra and that is as good as it gets.

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11nick, you don't have to take Calc's, just statistics. If I had to take Calc's I would be doomed. Business communications is very easy!

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Great! I'm in that period where I have to wait forever to receive word of acceptance and what classes have to take. I spent some time last night crawling through transcripts to get a detailed idea of where I stand with OU course/gen ed requirements. I think I'm sitting in a good spot.

I saw the credit requirements for the degree (120) and the breakdown for core courses, gen eds, and support courses. Didn't see a number of credits "granted" for completion of a prior 2 yr nursing program ( or for holding a current RN license). I'm guessing they do?????

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As it was explained to me (by my advisor who is no longer at OU) because my nursing credits were from a hospital diploma program not an associate degree comm college I would not receive those as transfer credits UNTIL i fulfilled 2 of the OU nursing courses. I have since accomplished that and have now received the credit for them and it looks like they accepted 27 credits in lower division nursing. After you have been accepted you will receive a DARS (degree audit report) which is as convoluted as every other document from OU. I had my advisor go thru this with over the phone so I could understand it. There is also a video link on the site that I found by accident that will also go thru the DARS. As just to confirm Woodsyny the statistics course fulfill the math requirement for Gen ed and prereq NSRG 4550 Evidence Based Nursing. Best to you in you pursuit

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Other programs I've investigated grant a specific number of credits to you because u hold a current RN license - usually 30 or 40 credits. this number isn't standard with OH?

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Depends on if you are a diploma graduate or associate degree. They granted all my credits, some from 30 years ago. Go to the FB page. Lots of info!

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I am a diploma grad - I transferred in over 40 credits for my nursing education alone. Add to that all the other credits I transferred ... I needed the core nursing classes and Jr comp. I took stats because it had been well over 20 years since my last stats class and I needed a class within 10 years for grad school. I have no regrets attending OU.

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You had to redo stats because it was older than 10 years, but they let everything else (chem, A&P) slide?

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