I AM FINALLY DONE: TESU BA PSYCHOLOGY and ASBA.

[Yana]

Thank you for your support everyone. I am planning to continue onto masters degree after this.

[alleycat]

Congrats! You did it!

[frostedfire]

Hello everyone,
I am finally done. Finished all coursework end of Jan, just got a confirmation from TESU that I am cleared for graduation. Thank God, Alhamdellah. YAY!!!!! This degree took me 16 years!!! I originally started studying Psychology as a transfer student at American College of Dubai (ACD) in 2001. Time flew, things got in the way. Later I got married and had 3 kids. Then decided to finish the degree and I I transferred to Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) online (my college was once affiliated with them so I already had some credits from there). This was financially draining, so I saved by taking classes from my old college in Dubai as this would save me at least 50% on tuition. It also went on and off. Then I hoped to save by taking CLEPS but SNHU would only accept 5 of them (15 credits). I had much more to go so I ended up not taking any at all. I was stuck. They changed their residency requirements and I could not take any classes in the "last" 24 credits (despite already having met the minimum 30 credits required for residency). I really didn't want to do another degree as I had already satisfied the concentration requirement in Child and Adolescent Developement, but I didn't have the required $12,000 to finish my degree. This is how I started looking for cheaper colleges and came across the big 3. It took me a long time to decide to settle for one and it was TESU (TESC back then). I had a lot of free credits to fulfill and so I also decided to do ASBA. In summer 2015 I tested out for the first time, by taking a TECEP in financial accounting. At that time I only needed to 8 tecep's to take advanted of the old requirements. I procrastinated and that rule changed. I felt discouraged again. Then my husband started pushing me to finally finish this degree. Thank God finances were right as well, so in summer 2016 I went into this intensive study mode and finished 35 remaining credits. And now I am officially DONE.
Here is the breakdown of my classes (I will not list classes at ACD when they were affiliated with SNHU, instead I'll put them in as ACD classes):

American College of Dubai (67 credits):


Intro To Anthropology
College Composition I
College Algebra
Intro To Psychology
Intro To Biology
College Composition II (had to repeat it as I had a D and TESU wouldn't accept it).
Developmental Psychology
Social Psychology
Contemporary Health
Intro To Sociology
Public Speaking
Worl Literature
Abnormal Psychology
General Chemistry
General Chemistry Lab
Intro To IT
Statistics
World Religions
Macroeconomics
Business Communications
Intro To Critical Reading
Intro To Business
Finite Maths

Southern New Hampshire University (18 credits):

Cognitive Psychology
Psychology of Child/Adolescent Adjust
Educational Psychology
Child and Adolescent Development
Psychology of Personality
Disorders of Child/Adolescent

Thomas Edison State University (6 credits)

Introduction to Financial Accounting
Liberal Arts Capstone

STUDY.COM (6 credits)

Intro To Managerial Accounting
Research Methods in Psychology

TEEX (2 credits)

Cyber Security for Everyone

Straighterline (9 credits)

Business Law
Principles of Management
English Composition II

Shmoop (9 credits)

US History I
US History II
Modern European History

NFA ( 2 credits)

Fire Service Supervision
Hydrualics Calculations... (was not given credit due to expiration date)
Self-Study for Community Educators

The Institutes (3 credits)

Ethics and the CPCU Code of Professional Conduct

Saylor Academy (through alternative credit project) (3 credits)

Principles of Marketing


I would like to dedicate this degree to my late father, brother and grandma. I would also like to aknowledge that without the support from my entire family this would be impossible for me. Thanks to my Mom, sister, kids and of course my husband. I would also like to thank the people on this forum for the wealth of information and for their answers (direct and indirect) in time when I needed them and didn't know where to look. I would also like to encourage those who are stuck or still in the beginning, and those who are near: YOU CAN DO IT!!!

CONGRATS! This is such an inspiration!
I'm wondering what you used to fulfil the ETHICS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES course for the Psychology degree? I'm interested in finding alternatives to the TESU course and notice that you didn't take it through TESU for your degree.

[jsd]

Yana was lucky enough to have enrolled in the degree plan before Ethics in the Soc Sci was added to the psych degree map, therefore not having to take it.

There's no cheap option for that course, unfortunately. Try finding it at a local CC if possible, otherwise you're stuck with TESU's expensive course for now.

[longtermstudent]

Congratulations!

[Yana]

CONGRATS! This is such an inspiration!
I'm wondering what you used to fulfil the ETHICS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES course for the Psychology degree? I'm interested in finding alternatives to the TESU course and notice that you didn't take it through TESU for your degree.

I used the free ethics course from the "The Institutes". I am under the 2015 catalog. Hope this helps. Maybe you could contact them and ask if the free course could satisfy this.

[jsd]

I used the free ethics course from the "The Institutes". I am under the 2015 catalog. Hope this helps. Maybe you could contact them and ask if the free course could satisfy this.

This is for the general education ethics requirements, which is different than the Psychology AOS "Ethics in the Social Science." That Ethics in SocSci was not in the 2015 degree requirements, only general ed ethics was (the degree requires both now).

The free course will still satisfy the gen ed requirements. It will not satisfy SocSci.

[kalishakti]

Congratulations OP! I am grateful to my faith, husband, parents, extended family and this forum as well

[Yana]

This is for the general education ethics requirements, which is different than the Psychology AOS "Ethics in the Social Science." That Ethics in SocSci was not in the 2015 degree requirements, only general ed ethics was (the degree requires both now).

The free course will still satisfy the gen ed requirements. It will not satisfy SocSci.

Oh, I didn't know about this new requirement.