English BA from TESC--help!

[Jonathan Whatley]

I do have a dumb question tho,

Not at all!

most of the courses from Western Washington University give 4 to 5 credits for the course. Would I get all 4 or 5 credits when they transfer to TESC or would TESC only take 3 of them? Just curious...

Ah, here's something important: Western Washington University awards credits in quarter hours, not semester hours. Each quarter hour is converted to about 0.66 semester hours at TESC. There's a full chart in Appendix II to the TESC Degree Planning Handbook [pdf] (search for "credit conversion table".)

5 quarter hours becomes 3.33 semester hours at TESC; 4 quarter hours becomes 2.66 semester hours at TESC.

In other threads, TESC students report instances of TESC advisors accepting 2.66 semester hour courses from a quarter-hour-granting source to meet specific requirements within a degree plan that are otherwise 3 semester hours. I expect you would still need an absolute hard total of 120 semester hours for a bachelor's degree, etc.

[af2012]

Ok cool. Thanks for clearing that up. Then I will just go for any class that gives 5 quarter hours so they should translate into over the 3 credits for each upper level class I will need at TESC. No sense in taking anything less & then be short by a 1/4 of a point.

[af2012]

Another test you can put towards the major is the DSST technical writing.

Ok another dumb question about DSST Technical Writing.

In my academic evaluation, there are two sections to the English Major which I think this might fit into. What do you think? Would it go under English Electives Group 1 - this is where I'm seeing one of the higher level courses (J. Austen: One Writer's Vision) that I've already taken, or would it go under Group 2 - this is where I'm seeing a lvl 200 class which I just took (Intro. Children's Lit).

[cooperalex2004]

Ok another dumb question about DSST Technical Writing.

In my academic evaluation, there are two sections to the English Major which I think this might fit into. What do you think? Would it go under English Electives Group 1 - this is where I'm seeing one of the higher level courses (J. Austen: One Writer's Vision) that I've already taken, or would it go under Group 2 - this is where I'm seeing a lvl 200 class which I just took (Intro. Children's Lit).

I've taken that exam and when I tell the system to run an eval on BA in English with my credits it puts it into group 2 of the electives (group one is your 15 UL credits which it mentions are required in the elective section).

Here you go, I'm a Communication major so I'm missing most of those credits!
I) 2: Area of Study (18SH must be at the 300/400 level)
Credits: 9
GPA Achieved/Needed: 4.000 / 2.000
Complete all 4 subrequirements:
N) A: Survey of Literature
> Complete 6 credits of Survey of Literature.
____________________________________________________ 6 credits needed

C) B: Anal & Int Lit
> Complete 3 credits of Analysis and Interpretation
> of Literature.
LIT-292 Analysis and Inter of Lit I 12/01/11 CR 3 *NE

N) C: Non Western Lit
> Complete one Non-Western Literature course (non-British;
> non-American).
____________________________________________________ 3 credits needed

I) D: English Electives
> Complete 21 semester hours of English/Literature/Advanced
> Writing courses as electives. At least 15SH must be at the
> 300/400 level to satisfy the requirement of 18SH of 300/400
> level coursework in the Area of Study. LIB-495 (Liberal
> Arts Capstone) can satisfy 3SH of this requirement.
Credits: 6
N) Group 1
___________________________________________________ 15 credits needed
C) Group 2
Credits: 6
ENG-216 Bus. Letter & Rep. Writing 08/01/11 A 3 *TE
ENG-201 Technical Writing.......... 12/19/11 CR 3 *NE

[af2012]

C) Group 2
Credits: 6
ENG-216 Bus. Letter & Rep. Writing 08/01/11 A 3 *TE
ENG-201 Technical Writing.......... 12/19/11 CR 3 *NE

Thanks so much for checking that for me. :-) I kinda figured they wouldn't make it that easy to get those upper level credits. I still had hope that it would go into Group 1. Oh well, back to the drawing board *lol*