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In article .com, "K4YZ"
Doctor Strangeglove, internist with the Antichrist writes: Phil Kane wrote: On 26 Jan 2005 15:56:02 -0800, K4YZ wrote: So...you classify "extension courses" as "correspondence courses" still? You think a Masters Degree is that easy to obtain? Tsk. An "extension course" IS Here's where I have to rain on your parade, Steve. My first year of grad study at UCLA was in "UCLA extension" status to avoid very high non-resident tuition. These classes were the same ones that "regular" status students took. The next year I was a California resident so I could register for "regular" classes. When I had completed all my course work ("matriculation" status) I could petition for conversion of "extension" credits to "regular" credits. Another type of "extension" courses were those taught off-campus, either at another institution's or at some company's campus. AFAIK UCLA never had correspondence courses. I wish that they had. I was enrolled in my last required course when I had to leave the area because of job transfer. I don't know whether they still have that "extension" system. Phil, they did up to ten years ago. Extension courses around L.A. have branched out into the expensive pay-a-lot postgraduate technology courses with a strange "credit" system. Makes a fair bit of change for UCLA and several other universities here, even the "junior" colleges. Those are in the $300 to $600 a day (full day) category. I get lots of spam ads from those in the mail. "Regular" (ordinary college credit) extension courses seem to be dwindling somewhat at the big institutions such as UCLA and USC. UCLA has a huge campus in Westwood and had poor parking way back when, one reason I didn't/couldn't go there except a few times. Smaller institutions were easier to get to such as CSUN, Loyolla, and even Los Angeles Trade-Tech (which did have college credit night courses held at outlying high school classrooms). Most of the aerospace corporations here weren't so interested in all those credentials (suitable for framing) despite what Personnel departments (sorry, "Human Resources") said and did on hiring. Engineering departments managed to get the last word on who could be hired via "second interviews" with prospective hirees. "Credentials" were necessary (apparently) for Management to show das Government on Big Contracts talks. Despite all that the Engineering departments functioned well and still managed to invent and innovate and designs that pushed the envelopes of performance well out of old boundaries. Ooops, we've departed from the Antichrist's latest Hate Rant. Back to critiques of "Dr. Laura" and cross-coupled evangelists, "CW" beeping amateurs still "pioneering" the short waves using vacuum tube radios. |
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