Has anyone put together degree plans for the new TESC requirements?

[FallingWaters]

My sister is working on Social Science and I'd love to see someone else's ideas.

[KayV]

Here are the new General Ed requirements, which also complete an Associate of Arts degree. You can look on the wiki for Social Science concentraition ideas.
NEW TESC General Education Requirements
Effective July 1, 2013
1. Intellectual and Practical Skills (15 credits)
CLEP College Composition (ENC-101/102)- 3 Composition, 3 Writing Intensive Coursework
ALEKS Intermediate Algebra- 3 Math
ALEKS College Algebra, ALEKS Trig or Precalculus, ALEKS Statistics, SL Business Communication, SL Intro to Speech, DSST Technical Writing, and/ or Saylor Corporate Communication- pick 2 for 6 hours of electives

2. Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World (18 credits)
Three 6-hour CLEPs fulfill the 3 required hours each in Social Science, Humanities, and Natural Sciences, as well as the 9 elective hours required.
CLEP Social Science – 6 Social Science
CLEP Humanities or CLEP Analyzing/ Interpreting Lit – 6 Humanities
CLEP Natural Science, Biology, or Chemistry -6 Natural Sciences

3. Personal and Social Responsibility (9 credits)
I don’t see any 6-hour CLEPs to fulfill these requirements.
CLEP Introductory Sociology, DSST General Anthropology, and/ or DSST Human/ Cultural Geography – pick any 2 for 3 Diversity/ Global Literacy and 3 Elective
DSST Ethics in America or SL Business Ethics- 3 Responsible Ethical Leadership
4. General Education Electives (18 credits)
Pick any 18 hours from the areas listed above.

[JBtesc]

"and/ or Saylor Corporate Communication"

Can you give me a good link that explains how we get credit for Saylor courses? Everything I read makes it seem like it's just test prep and then you have to take a CLEP or something to get any credit anyway?

I wish Coursera courses gave credits, those courses are so great.

[sanantone]

Saylor has 3 NCCRS approved courses that require a proctored final exam. Saylor will send a transcript to TESC. Coursera offers a few ACE approved courses, but they have specific start dates, and some of the courses haven't been offered since they received approval.

[KayV]

Here is the page that explains how to put Saylor courses on an NCCRS transcript to send to TESC/EC/COSC/ etc.:
National College Credit Recommendation Service (NCCRS) « Saylor.org – Free Online Courses Built by Professors

And here is the one that explains how Saylor courses are aligned to TECEP exams:
Thomas Edison State College TECEP Exams « Saylor.org – Free Online Courses Built by Professors
Currently they have aligned one course (CMP-354-TE Networking Technologies) to a TECEP and have several others in progress.

And while we are at it, they have several more courses aligned with Excelsior exams (Macroeconomics, Calculus, Intro to Psych, with Microeconomics and Comp I/ College Writing in the works.
Excelsior College Examinations/UExcel « Saylor.org – Free Online Courses Built by Professors

[sanantone]

The credits aren't put on an NCCRS transcript. NCCRS does not issue transcripts.

Contact the Registrar at the organization that sponsored the course or learning experience and obtain an official transcript and/or have an official transcript sent to the college or university of your choice. (NCCRS does NOT issue transcripts.)

http://www.nationalccrs.org/students/Student_Steps.html