COSC AS using FEMA for around $2000 Total

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Worked this up for my cousin, thought someone might find a use for it,

Charter Oak State College AS Degree (2 year pre-bachelors)

Literature and Fine Arts (a) (3cr): Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEP (3cr) $100

Social/Behavioral Science (b) (3cr): Criminal Justice DSST (3cr) or Psychology CLEP (3cr) $100 or Sociology CLEP (3cr)

Ethics (d) (3cr): Ethics in America DSST (3cr) DSST Business Ethics (3cr) should satisfy AND is Upper Level, Saylor BUS205 Business Ethics/law may work (3cr) $25

Information Literacy (y) (1-3cr): COSC cornerstone will satisfy

Communication (6cr and 3cr): College Composition CLEP (credit for English 1 and 2 for 6cr) and DSST Public Speaking (3 cr) note two separate tests here!...you can probably get the speech requirement waived if you can demonstrate any history of public speaking or teaching. $100-$200

US Gov (u) (3cr): US Government CLEP (3cr) $100 or either CLEP US History (1 or 2) $100

Non US History/Culture (n) (3cr):
Global Understanding (g) (3cr): DSST Human Cultural Geography (3cr) Satisfies BOTH $100 world religions DSST also $100 and also satisfies both.

Mathematics (q) (3cr): College Math Clep (6cr) or Straighterline College Algebra (3cr) or ALEKS College Algebra (3cr) if ALEKS doesn’t look like it will work just do the Straighterline option to complete this. ALEKS $60(3 months)

Natural Science (s) (7 cr): CLEP Biology or Chemistry, DSST Natural History, DSST Astronomy, CC Science with Lab, Straighterline Science with Lab, Saylor. Straighterline is an excellent choice for this requirement…likely the least painful way! Perhaps College Biology with a lab for non-majors? Local CC is a great source for this one as well. You must complete two courses in science; one of those must be a science course with a lab. Saylor.org has a couple of options that might be doable, at least they would be cheap. Complete one of the ACE approced Saylor Sciences at $25, plus any SL Science with a lab $150 TOTAL $175

Using the above you would roughly have about 31 credits via CLEP,DSST, Saylor, or Straighterline,. Another 30 or so credits would be completed via FEMA IS courses for FREE. Saylor also has several cheap courses (less than $30) that can be applied to the degree…this are preferable, perhaps, to FEMA as they offer more utility in your bachelors later on.

Cornerstone course (3cr) COSC $1200

Rough Cost:
CLEP/DSST Exams @ $100 each = $800
2 Straighterline Courses approx. $300 (if finished in 30 days, Math/Science requirements)
COSC Matriculation/Graduation Fee’s, and the cost of the Cornerstone Course (3cr) roughly $1200
TOTAL = $2180

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With the above completed you would be halfway to a Bachelors degree. We can then re-assess where we are and where you wish to go.