<p>So...someone gave me the advice to add some different classes...and I did. Tell me what you think.</p>
<p>Edited Schedule:</p>
<p>Summer of 2008:
ENGL 1101- English Composition
HIST 2112- U.S History since 1862
Total Credit hours: 6</p>
<p>Fall of 2008:
ENGL 1102- English Composition 2
MATH 1113- Pre-calculus
CHEM 1211- Principles of Chemistry
BIOL 2010- Unifying Principles of Biology
KSPE 1060- Jogging
Total Credit hours: 15</p>
<p>Spring of 2009:
BIOL 2230- General Botany
CHEM 1212- Principles of Chemistry 2
POLS 1101- American Government
PERS 2430- Nutrition
Total Credit hours: 13</p>
<p>Fall of 2009:
ENGL 2130- Development of Modern Thought
BIOL 2270- General Zoology
CHEM 3401- Organic Chemistry
MATH 2261- Analytical Geometry and Calculus
Total Credit hours: 15</p>
<p>Spring of 2010:
BIOL 3200- Genetics
CHEM 3402- Organic Chemistry 2
PSYCH 2500- Fundamentals of Psychology
SOCI 1101- Introduction to Sociology
Total credit hours: 14</p>
<p>Summer of 2010:
BIOL 3300- Ecology
PSYCH 2700- Human Growth and Development
Total Credit hours: 7</p>
<p>Fall of 2010:
PHYS 1111- Principles of Physics
BIOL 3450- Animal Physiology
SPAN 1101- Beginning Spanish
NUTR 3300- Introduction to Nutrition, Exercise and Health
KSPE 1020- Weight Training
Total Credit hours: 15</p>
<p>Spring of 2011:
BIOL 3100- Microbiology
PHYS 1112: Principles of Physics 2
SPAN 1102- Beginning Spanish 2
BIOL 4600- Evolution
KSPE 1030- Step Aerobics
Total credit hours: 15</p>
<p>Everyone here is well-meaning, but without knowing your goals and interests, the college's distribution requirements, the requirement for your major and minor, other graduation requirements, etc., no one can give you really good advice. Besides, planning things out so far in advance may be futile: you'll probably develop new interests, hear about great profs or courses that you want to take, maybe decide to study abroad, or perahaps not get into a class you want. The person to have this conversation with is your academic advisor, once he/she is assigned. Good luck, you sound like you're really intellectually curious and you're obviously a great planner!</p>
<p>I agree with MarathonMan88 -- difficult to look ahead that far.</p>
<p>some things to check out -- will your college accept CLEP exams or online community college courses for some of those basic requirements (english comp, us history, etc). many do -- which can free up college time for more in-depth courses</p>
<p>Here's my question. With the CLEP tests...if I can exempt out of those classes, must I take another class to replace those credit hours? Or does that class still count toward my credit hours?</p>
<p>You are assuming you will 1. get the classes you want 2. when you want them. Two fatal errors in college. Plan a year at at time and be extremely flexible or you are setting yourself up for much frustration. College is also most importantly about exploration of interests....so leave room for a class you aren't aware of.</p>
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Here's my question. With the CLEP tests...if I can exempt out of those classes, must I take another class to replace those credit hours? Or does that class still count toward my credit hours?
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<p>You'll have to check out your school's policies on this, since institutions differ. Some schools will allow you to place out of a course based on AP, IB, or CLEP credit, yet not count the credits toward the graduation credit requirement. Others cap the AP/IB/CLEP credits, while still others are more generous, counting nearly everything toward both placement and credit requirements.</p>
<p>you definitely want to check the policies with the school and the department you are earning your degree in -- some will allow the tests to be used to meet elective requirements but not degree requirements. In other words, if you pass the US History test, you still have to take some course in US History -- just not that one. For other schools, you will get the credit and meet the requirement.</p>