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First off I'm enrolled at TESC and have finished an associates degree. I'm about 42 credits away from completion of the Liberal Studies Degree. I'm interested in the PLA for my last 33 or so credits, basically my area of study. I know that you have to have two different subjects in your AOS and I have that taken care of. I'm totally prepared to do all the writing/work associated with the PLA.
My issue is this..... I have a huge background in Tennis. I was a college tennis player, college tennis coach, a professional teacher and administrator for the last 6 years, including some pretty high profile work. Now you may ask... how would you turn that into credit?
Well the following schools, have PTM programs, where you learn the ends and outs of the tennis industry, applied, practical, business, science.
Hampton University Hampton University : School of Business : Undergraduate Program : Professional Tennis
Tyler Junior College
Ferris State University Professional Tennis Management - College of Business - Ferris State University
Methodist University Methodist University - Professional Tennis Management
Issue is these are all business degrees, but the minor courses(the tennis ones) are considered science or applied physical education(non activity).
I'm trying to apply these to a LS degree, so I need 33 Gen ed credits.
I can clearly explain how I already have the acquired knowledge of the tennis courses.
Ok, thanks. If anyone wants to take a crack at it, I'd greatly appreciate it. I know it's an odd one. Thanks
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tennis isnt going to fall into liberal arts. Your only shot of turning those into credit is using another degree plan. I'm not sure where they would fit best, perhaps an advisor would answer that in a phone call. That said....
Not to be discouraging, but I think trying to do this is going to cost you months of work with poor yield. Gen eds (liberal arts) are exactly where the tests are. Also, PLA credit is full cost- over $150 per credit. That's over $5000 just for your major. Even if it WERE liberal arts, that's soooo expensive. Testing those same 33 credits will run you about $1000. Do a board search for PLA credit before you make up your mind. This has been visited before.
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I concur with cook on this one. PLAs are widely considered a waste of time and money -- you pay $450 for 3 credits when you could get 18 for the same cost via CLEPs.
HOWEVER... here is a writeup at the other forum that seems to line up with what you want to do and has a solid strategy for doing it.
Whether what you want to do is what you actually need to do may be two different things though. Caveat emptor.
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Complete: TESU BA Computer Science
2011-2013 completed all BSBA CIS requirements except 4 gen eds.
2013 switched major to CS, then took a couple years off suddenly.
2015-2017 finished the CS.
CCAF: AAS Comp Sci
CLEP (10): A&I Lit, College Composition Modular, College Math, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Management, Microecon, Sociology, Psychology, Info Systems
DSST (4): Public Speaking, Business Ethics, Finance, MIS
ALEKS (3): College Algebra, Trig, Stats
UMUC (3): Comparative programming languages, Signal & Image Processing, Analysis of Algorithms
TESU (11): English Comp, Business Law, Macroecon, Managerial Accounting, Strategic Mgmt (BSBA Capstone), C++, Data Structures, Calc I/II, Discrete Math, BA Capstone
Warning: BA Capstone is a thesis, mine was 72 pages about a cryptography topic
Wife pursuing Public Admin cert via CSU.
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I've been thinking about this a bit more.
While I'm certain your PLA would get dumped into Free Electives for the BA liberal studies, you should call and ask about this degree: Thomas Edison State College | Learner Designed Area of Study (LDAS) This is their learner designed area of study, and there have not been many people here who have looked into it. I think this might be a perfect situation to consider it! It's still going to be expensive, but you certainly might be able to design your area of study to use your career work, which I know you were hoping for.
Let us know if you find out more.
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That's an interesting idea. You could do an LDAS and essentially build your own business administration degree based around how to create (entrepreneurship) and run (management) a tennis camp / tennis school. Just add the gen eds and business core that you would need to create and run a tennis organization and make the proposal. Can't hurt to give it a shot. I'd be really interested if this succeeded because we could add it to the wiki as an example for others to think outside the box.
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Complete: TESU BA Computer Science
2011-2013 completed all BSBA CIS requirements except 4 gen eds.
2013 switched major to CS, then took a couple years off suddenly.
2015-2017 finished the CS.
CCAF: AAS Comp Sci
CLEP (10): A&I Lit, College Composition Modular, College Math, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Management, Microecon, Sociology, Psychology, Info Systems
DSST (4): Public Speaking, Business Ethics, Finance, MIS
ALEKS (3): College Algebra, Trig, Stats
UMUC (3): Comparative programming languages, Signal & Image Processing, Analysis of Algorithms
TESU (11): English Comp, Business Law, Macroecon, Managerial Accounting, Strategic Mgmt (BSBA Capstone), C++, Data Structures, Calc I/II, Discrete Math, BA Capstone
Warning: BA Capstone is a thesis, mine was 72 pages about a cryptography topic
Wife pursuing Public Admin cert via CSU.
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Here is how my LDAS would work, if I chose to do it, don't know what to call it yet.
English- English 101, English 102 (6) credits
Humanities- A&I CLEP, Humanities CLEP (12) credits
Social Science- (3) Labor Studies Courses, Psych 101 (12) credits
Math- Math 105, Math 110, Math 200, (ALEKS-Intro to Stats) (12) credits
Gen ED- Economics 101, Economics 102, (1) Labor Studies Course, Criminal Justice,
Western Civilization (Straighterline), Sociology (Straighterline) (18) credits
Free-Fema Credits (27) credits
LDAS-3 credit TESC Liberal Arts Capstone (3) credits
Business Core-Intro Management, Business Law, Intro to Business, Accounting 201, Business Stats (ALEKS)...if they let me duplicate. (15) credits
PLA- 15 credits of PLA Tennis courses (15) credits ...most of which are upper level at their respective universities
So that would be 120 credits. It would meet the 18 upper level credit requirements. The only courses I would need to take are the (15) pla courses, Western Civ/Sociology (SL), and A&I and Humanities CLEP. Also, the TESC liberal arts capstone.
Wonder if it'll work, I'd hate to do all this work and they tell me no. But I might try.
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