I am looking for self paced, distance learning courses in general
chemistry. No online courses if possible. I need 15 credit hours.
These courses can be from any professional, national, or regional
accredited institution.

I have worked for an oil company for 27 years. I have extensive lab experience.
These courses will not increase my pay. I will never use these credit
hours again. I need to keep it as simple and easy as possible.
Self-paced courses with study guides would be ideal.

Here are a few options that may be worth investigating. All the
institutions below offer at least two chemistry courses via distance
learning. Most of these are 3-credit courses, which is the basic
standard for university courses, unless there is a lab attached; time
span for completing courses seems to be most commonly either 6 months
or a year, with extensions sometimes available. One of your problems
might be finding enough courses on the general level in correspondence
form to accumulate the 15 credits you need. Also, most institutions
are focusing on distance learning via the internet, rather than
traditional hard-copy correspondence courses. So looking for the
latter will probably limit your choices somewhat. I have included one
school below (last one) that offers chemistry via the internet,
because the description of the format seems to indicate that it is
self-paced, in the style of a more traditional correspondence course.
I'm sure there are more options out there, but I hope this will be of
some help as a start.

Sam Houston State University
SHSU is an institution that caters to non-traditional students. Second
URL below shows correspondence course policies.

http://www.shsu.edu/~cor_www/courses/chm.html
http://www.shsu.edu/~cor_www/policy.html#enrollment


University of Central Oklahoma

http://www.ucok.edu/corrstudies/course_listing.htm


University of Wisconsin Extension Independent Learning
Click on ?321 courses? and select Chemistry (2 courses listed)
NOTE: These courses are marked as ?temporarily unavailable,? with
contact info if you are interested in finding out when they might be
available again. The second URL below shows the same two courses, with
links to the syllabus for each course.

http://learn.wisconsin.edu/catframe.asp
http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/indlearn/astronomy_physics.htm


ACS Distance Education
This school is based in the UK and/or Australia. Because the courses
are not designed for the North American system, I don?t know how you
would determine credit hours for any one course. They do not list
credits with the course descriptions.

http://www.acsedu.co.uk/courses/product_listings.aspx?catid=science


University of California (Berkeley Extension Online)
Look at the two courses that are indicated as "Online Independent Learning."
http://explore.berkeley.edu/UCExt/subdiscipline.asp?value=6.2.&action=Internet