BSBA CIS TESC Degree Plan!!

[Tayon]

Well after looking through forums for a few weeks and finally deciding on a BSBA CIS, I personally have never taken a CLEP or a DSST exam yet, hopefully soon in the future, currently working 60 hours a week and 9 credits hours at the moment at a Community College. Also any able to format this better, on a new Mac and not 100% used to this, I had it in textedit and had most stuff strikethrough, but It went away when I copied and pasted in here. So any help in adding the Computer classes needed for this degree would be awesome! Hopefully I can come up with more as well!


I. General Education Requirements 60
A. English Composition (CLEP, TECEP) 6
B. Humanities 12
•Managerial or Business Communications (Straighterline, Business Comm) (3)
•Other Humanities (CLEP French, Spanish, DSST Technical Writing, PF Business and Technical Writing ETC….) (9)
Must include at least two subject areas*
C. Social Sciences 12
•Macroeconomics (Straighterline and CLEP)) (3)
•Microeconomics (Straighterline and CLEP)) (3)
•Other Social Sciences (CLEP Social Science and History, TESC (Juvenile Delinquency, Marriage and the Family) ETC…) (6)
Must include at least two subject areas*
D. Natural Sciences and Mathematics 9
•Precalculus Mathematics or Quantitative Analysis (ALEKS, Straighterline and CLEP) (3)
•Principles of Statistics (DSST, Straighterline, ALEKS, and UExcel) (3)
•Other natural sciences (ALEKS(Business Statistics)) (3)
Must include at least two subject areas*
E. General Education Electives (TESC, TECEP, SL/ACE, CLEP, DSST) 21
II. Professional Business Requirements 54
A. Business Core 27
•Business Law CLEP (Introductory Business Law), DSST Business Law II (3)
•Computer Concepts and Applications/Introduction to Computers/CIS (CLEP (Information Systems and Computer Applications) or DSST (Introduction to Computing or Management Information Systems)) (3)
•Principles of Financial Accounting (DSST, CLEP, ECE, or Straighterline (Accounting I))(3)
•Principles of Managerial Accounting (ECE or Straighterline (Accounting II)) (3)
•Principles of Finance (DSST) (3)
•Introduction to Marketing (CLEP) (3)
•Business in Society or International Management (TECEP or DSST (Business Ethics and Society))(3)
•Business Policy (TECEP (Strategic Management), (not a test or Straighterline, but self-paced and cheap) Penn Foster Strategic Management (as long as it’s currently ACE-approved)) (3)
•Principles of Management (CLEP) (3)
B. Area of Study: BSBA Computer Information Systems 18
• Required Subjects 6
◦ Programming Language
◦ Systems Analysis and Design
• Electives 12
◦ Data Structures
◦ Operating Systems
◦ System Development Methodology OR Systems Analysis and Design II
◦ Additional Programming Language**
◦ Application System Development
◦ Basic Design Theory and Decision Making Techniques
◦ Computer Logic and Organization
◦ Computer Management
◦ Client Server and Net-Centric Computing
◦ Computer and Information Technology*
◦ Database Management*
◦ Information Systems Administration
◦ Job Control Language Systems
◦ Management Information Systems* (DANTES examination)
◦ Network Architectures
◦ Networking Principles (LAN/WAN/Internet)
◦ Problem Analysis and Solutions◦ Quantitative Analysis and Information Systems
◦ Social Aspects of Information Technology
C. Business Electives (TESC (Business Math) DSST (Intro to Business, Principles of Supervision)) 9
III. Free Electives (CLEP, DSST, PF, FEMAs) 6
Total 120

[sanantone]

Don't use the Management Information Systems DSST as your required computer course and save it for the CIS concentration. There is also a TECEP for Networking Technologies. As long as it's currently ACE-approved, Penn Foster's Intro to Programming course should fulfill the programming requirement. You can be the guinea pig and ask TESC how they will evaluate TEEX's free, ACE-approved cybersecurity courses. See thread below. The hard part is finding systems analysis and design at a low cost. I'm sure another member has some recommendations. If you don't have any cheap community colleges in your district or state, then I suggest looking at Clovis Community College or New Mexico Junior College unless the state of New Mexico has changed its tuition policy for non-residents. I like Central Texas College's self-paced courses, but they are expensive for non-residents.
http://www.degreeforum.net/general-educa...-teex.html

As far as your general education courses there are easier social science tests to take. Refer to the links below, but disregard TESC's human services category. Three of those tests have been counted as social sciences for many.

DANTES
CLEP - College-Level Exam Program

[Tayon]

This degree plan wasnt necessary for me, but just a generalized Degree plan that I ripped from other BSBAs degree plans on the wiki. Just trying to further the movement on CIS degree plans and the need for them.