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by rgonzales on July 30, 2008
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im in the military and have a family to take care of so unfortunatly i am unable to go to a university full time to pursue a degree in zoology and ultimatly herpetology. my question is are there any good online degrees i could get so i can eventually become a herpetologist. any and all advice would be well appreciated.
A1c robert Gonzales
c-130 fuel system journeyman
Dyess Afb, Texas
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by tj on July 31, 2008
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Doubtful. Degrees in bio and zoology have pretty extensive field and lab work, which can't be performed online.
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by Rob_Carmichael on July 31, 2008
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You may be able to satisfy some of your undergrad pre-requisites, elective courses, etc., however, you will need to go to an actual college or university to do all of your lab work, research, etc. I will check with some of my colleagues to see if there's a program that might get you going into the right direction. If you don't hear from me, contact me off the forum and I'll respond ASAP.
Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center
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by Snakeman1982 on July 31, 2008
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Hey Robert,
Rob is right in that the online courses may be beneficial for getting done with some of your freshman and sophomore level courses (english, algebra, history) but your core biology courses and ultimately degree would have to be taken at an actual university. Be careful as many universities, or departments within a university, don't honor courses taken at many of the online universities. Plus, if you wanted to go beyond an undergraduate degree and enter a master's or Ph.D. program, I believe you would really struggle to get into a program with an online degree.
I would be cautious about taking all your freshman and sophomore level classes online. For instance, many students take all their easy courses their first two years of college and party the whole time. Then when they are out of electives and easy classes they have to pick a major and fail out from taking 12-15 hours of difficult core courses during their third year. Taking all online courses first would probably be worse. The freshman and sophomore level classes are suppose to prepare you to take the more difficult courses but you should also be taking tough courses in addition to the easy classes. When I started college I took Zoology my first semester and continued taking biology classes with all the other joke courses I wasn't interested in. So during my last semesters I still had easy courses like History and Health, making life a lot easier. Biology is a very tough major and you won't want to save all your difficult courses till the end.
I do however know quite a few biologists/herpetologists who have gotten multiple degrees while raising their kids and having a family life. It is surely harder in some ways but certainly possible. Many universities even have married housing and such, and your service in the Air Force should help out with some of the financial burden of college.
Good luck,
Robert
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by rgonzales on August 1, 2008
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i appreciate the advice and i realize that i wont be able to do the whole thing online. i just needed to know which direction to go in. and thankfully 100% of my tuition will be paid for with the gi bill and tuition assistance
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