Humanities, Literature and Arts 80/137

Hey all!

This class is one of the ones I have dreaded. The general education requirements for any degree. I don't like them at all. That being said it took me 6 weeks to do work that if I had actually sat down and just done it would have taken about two weeks.

For this class I had to write an essay and do a PowerPoint. For this essay, I had to analyze two pieces of art work and explain how the time period they were from influenced the later time period. This took about 1 week to look up information and write the paper. Although I say a week it was sporadically. Who wants to do home work on a Saturday when you can go to the beach! I submitted the paper and had it sent back needed revisions to meet the requirements. Once they were made the essay was accepted and I moved on to the PowePoint.

The PowerPoint is not like a standard presentation. The way they want it done is like writing an essay but putting the information on the slides. You have to choose three works, one literary and two non literary and relate them to your profession and/or degree. I choose Invictus but William Henry as my literary work, the movie BlackHat as my first non literary and The Grid - Crystal Method Remix as my third work. Once you have your works they want you to analyze them and explain the elements that are used in each of the works. After your inital review they want you to explain how this relates to your job and field of study. I did so and submited and again had a few changes that needed to be made.

The good thing about the way these are graded is that once you submit if there are changes they tell you exactly what you need to do, then resubmit and be done.


This was not a fun class for me at all. I prefer the technical classes that I can use for my job. That being said on to Scripting and Programming Foundations! Ill let you all know when I finish!

Thanks for Reading!

Eag1e3y3.

Intro to my time at WGU. 78/126

Hello,  I will start by introducing myself. My name is Chris and I work as an Information Security Administrator in Northern New York. I'm married and have 2 wild boys that keep me going all day long. I had tried online schools before, and they weren't for me. Then I started looking again about 1.5 years ago and found WGU.  There were a couple of things that attracted me to WGU. One being that the cost of attendance was less then any other school I looked at. The second and main deciding factor was that I would earn industry standard certifications and my BS all at once for the same cost! 

I started the trek through school one and a half years ago. It had been a long time since I completed a semester, by long time I mean 2008 when I graduated with my A.A.S in Computer Information Systems. This time I was determined that I would finish and earn my BS. I was actually very lucky during the enrollment process and acceptance. I transferred in 44 CU's, pretty much covering all but 3 general education courses!

I have completed 78/126 CU's in 3 semesters including transfer credits. Most of the classes were the intro IT courses so I was able to move through then with general ease, having worked in IT for a while. Just recently I started getting into the harder more advanced classes. At first I didn't need to put in the full 20 hours a week they recommend. This past semester proved I needed to put more time in. I had to take a couple second attempts on finals.

My 4th semester starts on June 1st. I will be taking my final general education course! The down side it requires me to write a paper. The up side is that the other courses are Networks, a scripting course and application development course.

I am going to try and write a post after each course and update my CU's as they are completed. Hope this can help others in their journey!

- Chris(Eag1e3y3)