Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

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TRANSFER CREDITS

You will obtain your degree by taking courses at a distance. You may also apply college credit from the following:

University and College Transfer Credits
Vocational-Technical College Transfer Credits
Credit for Military Experience
Credit for Training Programs
Credit for Specific Subject Examinations
Credit for Work and Life Experience
Credit by Test Out
Take CLEP examinations

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE TRANSFER CREDITS
Generally, college credits from two-year or four-year regionally accredited colleges and universities will transfer, provided grades of "C" or better were earned and the credits are in areas currently taught at UW-Platteville. The two-year degree from the UW Colleges satisfies all UW-Platteville general education requirements, as does a four-year bachelor's degree from any University of Wisconsin System university. Other four-year bachelor degrees from regionally accredited colleges and universities will be considered by evaluation.

No more than a total of 72 credits may transfer from two-year colleges.

VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL COLLEGE TRANSFER CREDITS
In general, University of Wisconsin System policy does not allow the transfer of noncollege track technical college course work, but if you have completed course work from Wisconsin technical colleges in business administration and business administration-related areas and general education, some course work may transfer if previously approved by the UW System; however, the course must match a similar course at UW-Platteville. No technical credits taken after enrollment at UW-Platteville may transfer.

If you have taken business administration and business administration-related technical college courses that do not transfer, you may receive credits by departmental test-out or by combining technical college course work with other prior work and life experience through the portfolio development process.

CREDIT FOR MILITARY EXPERIENCE
For one year of military service in the active U.S. armed forces as documented by a DD214 form (military separation papers), you may receive two credits in physical education and two credits in military science. For two years of service, which includes an overseas assignment of 60 days or more, you may receive an additional two credits in international education. Please provide the UW-Platteville Distance Learning Center with a copy of your DD214.

Most formal courses offered by the regular Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, and Department of Defense starting with 1972 have been evaluated by the American Council on Education and may be transcriptable as recommended by the Council. Some Air Force formal courses have also been evaluated by the Council, but courses taken while serving as an enlisted person in the Air Force have been evaluated by the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) and should appear on a transcript from CCAF. Request your transcript from CCAH/RRRA, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, 36112.

If you have attended one or more military schools, you will want to request documentation. Veterans of the regular U.S. military must write to General Service Administration, National Personnel Records Center (Military Personnel Records), 9700 Page Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63132. Request that a 2-1 form be completed for you (you must provide your military identification number). Instruct the General Service Administration to send the 2-1 form directly to the UW-Platteville Distance Learning Center. If you are in the active regular U.S. military, you should contact your base personnel officer for official documentation of your educational record. Form DD295 is required.

Normally, because military courses are so specific, such credits transfer as electives.

CREDIT FOR TRAINING PROGRAMS
If the American Council on Education (ACE) has evaluated the corporate or professional training program in which you participated, you may receive some transfer credit. Only the ACE recommendations that are related directly to the business administration major will be considered for transfer. Normally, because training programs are so specific to the industry, such credits transfer as business electives.

Please have the training program send an official document indicating your participation in the program and the courses completed to the UW-Platteville Distance Learning Center.

CREDIT FOR SPECIFIC SUBJECT EXAMINATIONS
CLEP (College Level Examination Program), DANTES (Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support), USAFI (United States Armed Forces Institute) subject examinations, and College Board Advanced Placement Examinations may be acceptable. The maximum total credits applicable to the degree earned by external or internal examinations may not exceed 30 credits. If you have previously taken any of these examinations, you must provide official evidence of each examination taken.

CREDIT FOR WORK AND LIFE EXPERIENCE
Approximately 25 percent of distance learning students qualify for and choose to do a portfolio to earn college-level credit for prior work and life experience. The idea of giving transcripted college credit for prior learning experience is based on the philosophy that competencies gained through experience can be equivalent to those developed in the classroom. It should not matter if the experience was in the traditional classroom, in a seminar or workshop, or on the job, as long as the acceptable competencies were gained.

If you choose to seek credit for prior work and life experience, you must show competencies obtained and be able to document them, which is done by developing a portfolio in which you match your experiences with specific courses offered at UW-Platteville.

A portfolio that documents work and life experience is developed after you are admitted to UW-Platteville and are enrolled in BsAd 4950, Portfolio Development.

To determine if you are eligible to register in BsAd 4950, Special Topics: Portfolio Development, you should submit a detailed resume for review at the same time that you have transcripts sent in for evaluation. If the review indicates that you should develop a portfolio, you may enroll in BsAd 4950, Special Topics: Portfolio Development. A fee is required for evaluating the portfolio and transcripting any credits granted. The initial resume review is done free of charge.

Credit will be granted for business administration and business administration-related areas only. BsAd 4950, Special Topics: Portfolio Development, is only offered as a print-based course for degree-seeking students. A list of courses that may be matched with experiences is available from the UW-Platteville Distance Learning Center upon request.

CREDIT BY TEST OUT
If you believe that you have proficiency in a specific course, you may be able to test out of it. Test-out costs and procedures are determined by the individual departments. A UW-Platteville Distance Learning Center staff member will help you contact the appropriate academic department.

The maximum total credits applicable to the degree by internal or external examinations is 30 credits. No student may take a credit examination in a course that is a prerequisite, stated or implied, for an advanced course in the same subject for which credits have already been earned.

Only students who are officially admitted at UW-Platteville may participate in departmental test-out examinations.

Can I take CLEP examinations?

The CLEP subject examinations and scores necessary for credit are as follows (from 1997-99 University catalog-subject to change without prior notice):
Course Name	Score	Credit Awarded	UWP Course
History and Social Science:
American Government	47	3 credits	POLSI 123
Education Psychology	46	2 credits	TCHG 332
General Psychology	52	3 credits	PSY 113
Macroeconomics	50	3 credits	ECON 213
Microeconomics	50	3 credits	ECON 223
Intro to Sociology	47	3 credits	SOC 103
Foreign Languages:
College French: Level 1	44	4 credits	FREN 104
		4 credits	FREN 114
College French: Level 2	51	4 credits	FREN 204
		4 credits	FREN 214
College German: Level 1	45	4 credits	GERM 124
		4 credits	GERM 134
College German: Level 2	55	4 credits	GERM 224
		4 credits	GERM 234
College Spanish: Level 1	47	4 credits	SPAN 184
		4 credits	SPAN 194
College Spanish: Level 2	55	4 credits	SPAN 284
		4 credits	SPAN 294
Composition and Literature:
Freshman English	52	3 credits	ENGL113
College Composition	52	3 credits	ENGL123
American Literature	Contact department chair
Analy. & Inter. Of Lit	Contact department chair
Science and Mathematics:
Calculus W/Elam. Func.	50	4 credits	MATH 264
College Algebra	50	3 credits	MATH 153
Trigonometry	50	3 credits	MATH 223
College Algebra-Trig	50	5 credits	MATH 245
General Biology (Non-Majors):	46	4 credits	BIOL 115
	47+	5 credits	BIOL 115
General Chemistry	47	5 credits	CHEM 165
*NOTE: (Majors) Biology majors will be awarded these same number of credits toward graduation if they receive a grade of B or better in General Botany 135 or General Zoology 145 (such that one of these two courses would be waived).
Business:
Intro to Management	47	3 credits	BSAD 233
Introductory Accounting	47	3 credits	ACCT 201
Intro Business Law	51	3 credits	BSAD 313
Introductory Marketing	48	3 credits	BSAD 263