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Not that I expected any different. Now I have completed all the course requirements, my practicum, and the comps (Comprehensive Exams), so I should have my masters degree, right?
Nope, because they waived two of the course requirements, I don't have enough credits to graduate. I have to take one more course in education, even though the school doesn't offer any courses that I'm even remotely interested in. I wish I could just take a math or science course, but they aren't administrated by the education department.
And since all Ed courses have a fieldwork requirement, I'll have to figure out how to take time off from work to complete 10 hours of field work. Oh yeah, the curriculum requires 100 hours fieldwork and I've already got 147, but since each education course has a 10 hour requirement, I will still have to take time off from my job which has nothing to do with education. I'll probably lose 30 hours of work to get 10 hours of fieldwork, so I can finish a masters degree I have no plans to use.
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I'm so sorry. I take my comps this semester, and I'm scared there going to add something to our degree too.
The thing that so scary is that education majors aren't subject to grandfather clauses, so that means if they change the education degree, it takes effect for every education major, even if you're in your final semester. That happened to some friends of mine, they were part of the state department deciding education students needed another 30 hours of observation and they had to work it in even though they were about to graduate.
It's very frustrating. Hang in there!
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I have a history of this kind of thing, actually. I've got 122 credits from a community college. An A.A.S and an A.L.A., but all that transferred to the four year school was 70 credits.
quote:I take my comps this semester, and I'm scared there going to add something to our degree too.
Good Luck. I had a mild freak out while I was preparing for them, but they actually weren't hard at all. I shouldn't have worried. We knew all the questions in advance, it was just weird studying to write an essay. I wrote all the essays in advance, and then when I went into the test they all came out different. But really all they wanted was to include all the right buzzwords.
quote:The thing that so scary is that education majors aren't subject to grandfather clauses, so that means if they change the education degree, it takes effect for every education major, even if you're in your final semester.
That kind of thing happens in New York, but these things aren't changed instantaneously, usually if you're following the predicted schedule for your major the changes don't affect you. When I was getting my B.S. my math teachers kept telling me that I should get the middle school math extension certification, but my education department (of the school) kept telling me it wasn't offered unless you had started the program before a certain deadline, which I had missed. Eventually I found out that the school didn't offer the certification, but the state did, so I went straight to the state ed dept. and wound up with three certifications, pretty much just for asking. It would have been nice if the school had bothered to check my credentials against the state chart.
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A BA will often have a few more requirements in various interdisciplinary and crossdisciplinary areas. A BS most often has much higher requirements in the main area and related areas (as in, a good number of credit hours in high level science & math courses that wouldn't be required for a BA).
Many schools make BS students take all the courses that BA students take, plus the extra more advanced courses.
This mostly applies to the fields where you usually see BSs, such as the hard sciences and math.
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