Online Academic Degrees

Okay, I have been in college for a long time now, needless to say, I am reaching my wits end. I enrolled in college because I thought that it would be somthing that I enjoyed, I thought I would be studying what I loved, and I thought that I would only be taking classes that were part of what I believed to be (my academic curriculum). I have been in college for nearly 3 years now doing nothing other than “pitty patty” classes that eat up my time, my gas, and my money. The majority of the classes that I feel I have been (FORCED) to take, and re-take, I already took in high school. And the unfortunate truth of the matter is, most of the classes I was required to take in HS were meaningless, pointless, and irrelevant to my area of interest. But I took them, passed them, and have not needed them in nearly 7 years.

Recently, I decided that I wanted to study theology, and obtain my PhD in it. To my surprise at Liberty University, they offered up to a masters degree in Theology all ONLINE. The other upside to it, is when I looked at the degree itself, and all it required, it was beautiful. It was like a dream come true, somehow, for the first time ever, I found a degree that required no extra classes, the only classes that were in the theology degree, “were theolgy classes”!!

However, I looked at the prerequisites, and I almost puked! For some reason, I am required to take Biology and Microbiology to study the word of God. Additionally, I need to know how to preform quadradic equations with three variables to study the history of the gospel. What the heck!!! Why do i need this math for this degree? I looked at the curriculum for all the degrees leading up to the coveted PhD itself, not one math class, not one goverment class, not one science class, not even one. So why do they require me to take classes that are evidently never needed all the way up to PhD?

Last but not least. I just want to know if there is one University out there in the US that offers accreditied degrees in theology that dose not require a year to two years worth of meaningless, pointless prerequisites that I will never use or refer to again?

Thank you very much
I may have left this out, I am still trying to obtain my Associates in General Studies at the community college. But everytime I think I am just about finished, they plop another pre-req in front of me. And you are right, they did use the “well rounded excuse”, however, if they were actually being honest and not money hungry, they would see that the courses that they require me to take to better “ROUND” me, were already taken and passed with flying colors in HS lol. Anyways, are there any good schools out there I could get my Associates at in theology?

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