Best CJ courses @ TESC?

[PonyGirl93]

For those of you who are currently/have gotten a CJ degree from TESC, which of your classes did you enjoy the most? I know there isn't much flexibility in courses for most of the required areas, but of the more flexible areas, which courses did you like the most?? I'm not starting until this fall, but in my current agony to be done with CLEPs, I cheer myself up by planning out my courses. Just wondered which everyone enjoyed the most?? Also, what order do you take the Homeland Security classes in?

[KUJO]

I am also interested in this. I think I may end up having to take either 3 or 5 courses through TESC. Right now I am trying to find out if any of the 6 Credits I earned from MP training in the Army will count towards any of the 5 mandatory courses that TESC has for the CJ degree. I am also wondering if the -Introduction to Law Enforcement- or the -Criminal Justice- dantes/dsst will count towards the mandatory CJ courses. If not I hope to use the Victimolgy or the Introduction to Criminal Justice to meet the requirements for 2 of the 5 mandatory courses. I already have the elective CJ courses done.

[a4tunatemom]

My daughter took most of her CJ courses for TESC through Penn Foster. She took the 2 Dantes exams, the Cultural Diversity ECE, a public policy course through UoP, and Research Methods in the Social Sciences through TESC. Everything else was from Penn Foster and she enjoyed all of the PF courses.

Requirements for the major:
Penn Foster's Terrorism was SOS440 Terrorism
PF's Victimology was AOJ380 Victimology
PF's White Collar Crime was AOJ303 White Collar Crime

Criminal Justice electives:
PF's Criminal Law was AOJ 251 Criminal Law
PF's Women and Criminal Justice was AOJ384 Women and Crime
PF's Criminology was AOJ103 Criminology
PF's Multicultural Law Enforcement was AOJ 354 Law and Politics of Race (Sadly they said this did NOT meet the Multicultural Studies requirement :confused: )
The Intro to Cr. Justice DSST and the Intro to Law Enforcement DSST

Danielle

[taylor]

I took AOJ 102 at TESC and thought it was a great class, highly recommend it and it would lay a basic foundation for CJ. I took the DSST Intro to Law Enforcement which was easy. I would think TESC would allow you to test out for both for CJ majors but I'd call to make sure. There's an overlap in the information so you probably could take both on the same day and pass.

[PonyGirl93]

My daughter took most of her CJ courses for TESC through Penn Foster. She took the 2 Dantes exams, the Cultural Diversity ECE, a public policy course through UoP, and Research Methods in the Social Sciences through TESC. Everything else was from Penn Foster and she enjoyed all of the PF courses.

Did she decide to take those at PF based purely on price, or did they seem like better courses to you??

Oh, & I do know that you can test out of several things, but I only wanted to test out of gen-eds. I didn't want to waste my time in classes I wasn't interested in, but testing is definitely not my preferred method of learning, so I'm looking forward to soaking up my classes when they're on something that I love

[cookderosa]

Not a CJ major, but I earned 9 CJ credits.

Gangs- good class, I did a fun hands on project as part of my final paper- including photographing local gangs (lol really), tons of writing though. Text was really a grad school text but overall I would give that a thumbs up. We studied a lot about the studies done on gangs. In other words, we analyzed the demographics/stats of gang members. (age, gender, religion, location, parents, income, etc)

Juvenile Delinquency- not bad, but again, lots of writing. Text was good, easy to understand with lots of pictures. Online quizzes were nice and counted for a good chunk of my grade if I remember. A lot of law/court process was covered. I had the same teacher for gangs, and he was a pretty hard grader. That was in 2007, not sure who is teaching now.

CJ DSST exam- slam dunk. A "must" for anyone needing social science credits.

[a4tunatemom]

Did she decide to take those at PF based purely on price, or did they seem like better courses to you??

She chose them based on time and price. They were only $270 including books but the big plus for her was being able to work at her own pace. She didn't like to have everything drug out over 12 or 16 weeks when she could learn it so much faster. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "better" courses. The information covered in the TESC classes and the PF classes seemed to be the same.

Danielle

[PonyGirl93]

@cookderosa: Those are two that I'm definitely taking. And I love to write, so that's great that they have a lot of writing.

@a4tunatemom: are PF courses like Guided Study or what? I read the description on their site but it wasn't very clear to me what exactly you do?

[killerkitty]

Hi a4tunatemom! I'm so glad to hear your daughter is knockin' out her courses, I just finished my CJ degree from PF, I know her and I were doing kinda the same thing, planning on transferring to TESC and all....

PonyGirl,
the Penn Foster courses are great. You really do learn what you put into it. The textbooks are up-to-date, I've already re-sold a few of them on amazon for $40 to $50 each, so my tuition is getting paid for much faster. The classes aren't easy, they require a lot of reading and a lot of critical thinking. But they are totally at your own pace and you can't beat your price. I've learned so much, I really am glad I chose to sign up with PF. You get your materials in the mail, and you're off! When you get close to the end of the course, you receive a proctor form in the mail. It can be anyone with an associate's degree or higher. The proctored exams are hard, lots of writing, no multiple choice.....they are open book but your time is restricted, so you pretty much have to know your stuff, or you're gonna end up with questions unanswered...which happened to me on a couple tests, but I still did pretty good. The whole process is so painless and hassle free, I never ran into a problem once with PF. Good luck with whichever method you choose.

[a4tunatemom]

@a4tunatemom: are PF courses like Guided Study or what? I read the description on their site but it wasn't very clear to me what exactly you do?

For most of the courses you have reading assignments, online open book quizzes, and a proctored final. Some of the courses also require a research papers or project.

Danielle