UTA AP - RN-BSN program and online pre-req

Swilson70 · May 15, 2014

I enrolled in US Hist I at uta, opened the syllabus the first day and immediately dropped it! Those assignments were crazy! I took US I and II at a comm college and made As, but I took the others at Uta with no problem, I had 6 total gen ed classes to take, including Am Lit and Lit was not bad at all...

Lj63 · May 15, 2014

Thanks for the info, yes I still need the history, literature and governments as well. It's gonna be a long process, and I may try the community colleges for some of these general courses, should have already done so, but I procrastinated. LOL.

LittleBlue · May 18, 2014

LJ63,

Lj63

I took all my Gen Ed through UTA, they are extremely tough and time consuming, if you have never had these course I would say try your community college. I had History and Political Science at another University but was told they would not accept them, even though they covered the same material. Had I not know this material there is NO WAY!! I would have been able to well in this class. I wish you well. The Fed Gov class was super easy no assignments just tests, I cant say the same for Texas Gov. I wish you well.

iLOVEbees · May 19, 2014

I took a lot of gen ed classes at UTA.

Both the pol sci courses were easy in my opinion. Great for doubling.

The math courses (alg and statistics) were easy for me, but math was always a strong point for me. I can see, if you don't like math, how it could be hard.

Am. Lit was easy. Art Appreciation was easy. The psyc course was a breeze.

They made me retake A&P2 (long story) and I thought that was super easy. I literally did the entire 8 week course in about 10 days.

Really, the only ones to avoid are the two history courses. They are awful, and this comes from someone who likes history. They are designed poorly, taught poorly, and graded poorly. The workload is ridiculous and, as near as I can, designed to make you hate education. There is no reason why the history courses need to be as awful as they are. I heard they are redesigning them, but still I'd play it safe and take them anywhere else. Lots of colleges have the 2 history classes you need online, or you can go to your community college and take a summer mini or something. Avoid at UTA.

Lj63 · Mar 21, 2015

Well as you can see I haven't been much on the site, I have now completed both Governments and working on one History now but all through my local community college. I had a set back in fall 2014 semester and didn't take anything so I have fell behind. I am on #3 nursing course and still lack my maths and another literature. I will probably be 60 before I can finish at this rate, but oh so hard to work full time, have some part of a social life and do school. What was I thinking??

SALRN · Jan 7, 2016

I am currently a student at UTA also in the RN to BSN program. I just registered to graduate in May'16! I started classes in August'14. I would suggest NOT to take history online at UTA. It was horrible and I have an overall GPA of 3.89! I also found algebra online very difficult but thought statistics was a breeze. For me the literature classes were not hard just time consuming with paper writing. I have 5 classes/19 credits to complete this semester. I have read that vulnerable populations has a heavy work load and that has me a bit worried since I will be taking my first political science and vulnerable populations and cooperative nursing at the same time. I could not take 3352 since it was only offered once and you cannot take a nursing course along with capstone.

Good luck. I work full time and have 4 school aged children so I feel your pain!