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.