Finally in College

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09 Jul 2009, 1:41 am

This week, starting Monday the 6th, I have started my first quarter of college. It is so cool to finally be in college.

I am a student of Rasmussen now, enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Accounting degree.

The classes I am taking currently are:

* Success Strategies (which is an intro to Rasmussen type course required for 1st quarter)
* Contemporary Business (also call "Intro to Business" in the course catalog)
* Introduction to Astronomy (my favorite class already)

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09 Jul 2009, 2:55 am

I don't get why a Bachelor's degree is required to be an accountant these days. My best friend's dad works as an accountant, and he only got an Associate's. At my college (which I'm transferring out of) it's the lowest credit major offered. The actual major itself is only 9 classes, or 36 credits. You need 180 credits to graduate. So what that means is that only 20% of the classes you take actually matter. The other 80% is just useless crap they make you take, so that they can make more money. Gotta love the college industrial complex!

Sorry, I went off on a tangent there.... Accounting's probably one of the better majors to go into right now for employment though, so I'd say you made a good choice. However, there's a lot of competition for those jobs right now... I'd recommend also taking some finance and econ classes to give you the upper hand.

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09 Jul 2009, 5:16 am

Macro and Micro economics are actually required gen-eds for my major, so I'll be set there.

Here are the classes I'll be taking:

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Current Courses this Summer 2009
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E150 Success Strategies 4
GEB 1011 Introduction to Business 4
AST 2002 Introduction to Astronomy 4

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All Courses from Summer 2009 to Fall 2013
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Core Courses for Accounting Major

Lower Division:

ACG 1000 Accounting I 4
ACG 1015 Accounting II 4
ACG 1032 Accounting III 4
ACG 2061C Computer Focused Principles 3
ACG 2930 Accounting Capstone 2
CGS 1190C Computer Information Systems 3
COM 1002 Professional Communication 4
CTS 2511 Excel 3
E150 Success Strategies 4
E242 Career Development 2
GEB 1011 Introduction to Business 4
TAX 2002 Income Tax 4

Upper Division:

ACG 3073 Managerial Accounting 4
ACG 3501 Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting 4
ACG 3631 Auditing 4
ACG 4180 Financial Statement Analysis 4
ACG 4200 Advanced Accounting 4
ACG 4250 International Accounting 4
ACG 4402 Accounting Information Systems 4
ACG 4682 Corporate Fraud Examination 4
ACG 4931 Accounting Capstone II 4
ECO 4223 Money and Banking I 4
FIN 3400 Corporate Finance 4
ISM 3015 Management of Information Systems 4
MAN 3504 Operations Management 4
MAN 4240 Organizational Behavior Analysis 4
MAN 4720 Strategic Management 4
TAX 4011 Advanced Federal Tax Theory 4

Electives:

ACG 2104 Intermediate Accounting I 4
ACG 2114 Intermediate Accounting II 4
ACG 2681 Financial Investigation 4
APA 1500 Payroll Accounting 4
BAN 1004 Introduction to Banking 4
BAN 2231 Fundamentals of Consumer Lending 4
BAN 2253 Introduction to Mortgage Lending 4
BAN 2800 Principles of Banking Law 4
BUL 2241 Business Law 4
CCJ 1000 Introduction to Criminal Justice 4
CJL 1100 Criminal Law and Procedures 4
MAN 2062 Business Ethics 4
MAR 2011 Principles of Marketing 4

Gen Eds

Lower Division:

English Composition
ENC 1101 English Composition 4

Communication
SPN 271 Conversational Spanish 4

Humanities
ENC 2102 Writing About Literature 4
LIT 2000 Introduction to Literature 4

Math/Natural Sciences
AST 2002 Introduction to Astronomy 4
MAT 1030 College Algebra 4

Social Sciences
ECO 2013 Macroeconomics 4
ECO 2023 Microeconomics 4

Upper Division:

Communication
MMC 3407 Visual Communication in the Media 4

Humanities
POT 4001 Political Thought 4

Math/Natural Sciences
STA 4020 Statistics I 4
STA 4025 Statistics II 4

Social Sciences
CPO 4003 Comparative Politics 4

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Completed Courses
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*yet to be*

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