Entire College Transfer Program Offered Online By VGCC In Fall

All the courses necessary to earn the Associate of Arts degree by the College Transfer program at Vance-Granville Community College will be offered online beginning with the 2004-2005 academic year.

Vance-Granville offers courses online in many of its 35 curriculum programs, but College Transfer is the first to offer a degree that can be earned completely online.

Several new online courses are being developed this summer, including public speaking, a literature course, American History I and college algebra. They will be offered online for the first time this Fall Semester, which begins Aug. 18, or Spring Semester, which starts Jan. 6, 2005.

Online courses are taken at home via the Internet. Students who take the courses must have a computer, access to the Internet and an E-mail account. Students who can learn on their own, are good writers and do not require a lot of help from an instructor are the best candidates for these courses, said Dr. John Beck, chairman of General College and College Transfer at VGCC.

Several of the courses require students to come to the VGCC campus to deliver speeches or prepare lab assignments, but for most of the courses all the work is completed at home. Several of the courses require students to take the final exam on campus, but exams are offered on a flexible schedule.

Dr. Beck said that online courses offered by the College Transfer program transfer to universities and four-year colleges just like the program’s traditional classroom courses. Online courses are recorded on students’ college transcripts as regular VGCC courses.

Anyone with questions or who want more information may contact Dr. Beck at (252) 738-3294 or by e-mail at beck@vgcc.edu