Welcome to the Bachelor of General Studies Degree Program
The Bachelor of General Studies (BGS) degree is designed to meet the needs of adult students with significant life experience who have already completed fifty-eight credit hours of college credit.
The program’s flexible curriculum allows adult students to maximize credits already earned and shorten the time needed to complete the degree.
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A Day in the Life Teresa Y / Senior / General Studies, Economics minor 5:30 a.m. – Wake up 6:00 a.m. – Homework math, writing, or whatever is pending 8:00 a.m. – Head to Boise State for classes 8:30 a.m. – Classes Calculus is Monday, tomorrow is History 11:00 a.m. – Work at my job 4:00 p.m. – Executive Committee Meeting for Womens and Childrens Alliance, my husband kindly stashes energy bars and drinks in my purse 6:00 p.m. – ECON 440: Health Care Economics, present paper with my group on the economic impact of the Patient and Protection and Affordable Care Act on Diabetes Treatment and Prevention |
A Day in the Life Mike S | Senior | General Studies, ASL minor Full time Sign Language Interpreter / Vice-president, President-elect of the Idaho Chapter of RID (Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf) 8:00 a.m. – Wake up, shower, get dressed 8:30 a.m. – Breakfast shake on the way out the door 9:15 a.m. – Arrive at Ada County Courthouse to interpret a pre-trial conference, during down time I read my FORLNG 410: Approaches to foreign language education assignment 11:00 a.m. – Take off my tie and have lunch while finishing up my FORLNG 410 homework, check in with my wife Noon – Interpret in Meridian for a business meeting 3:15 p.m. – FORLNG 410 class 4:30 p.m. – Dinner break at Boise State, check Blackboard, print out next week’s homework, Skype with my kids to see how their day went 6:00 p.m. – ASL 302: American Sign Language VI class 8:30 p.m. – Work at part time job as a Video Interpreter processing phone calls for Deaf and Hard of Hearing callers Midnight – Home and bed |
A Day in the Life Karen D I Junior I General Studies Full-time student / Part-time employee / Full-time Mom 7:00 a.m. – Compile resources and data for research paper 8:00 a.m. – Breakfast for son 8:30 a.m. – Assist with sons homework while doing my own homework 11:15 a.m. – Drop son off at school 11:30 a.m. – Study 1:15 p.m. Cultural Exchange in Transnational Literature class: In-class writing assignment 2:45 p.m. – Pick son up from play date 3:15 p.m. – Catch up on sons day while making him a snack 3:30 p.m. – Feed animal Im pet-sitting 5:00 p.m. – Attend sons first football game of the season 7:30 p.m. – Meet with 12-step partner. As a sponsor, I help her work the 12 steps by sharing our experiences, strength and hopes in an open honest way. It’s a mutually helpful relationship 11:00 p.m. – Complete and turn in four-page research paper Midnight – Bed Read More |