BA in Criminal Justice

[momoikapor]

Looking for advise how to complete BA in Criminal justice as fast as possible using CLEP, DSST Straight. I have 50+ FEMA courses and 12 credits of German language. Looking to use TESC and trasfer all CLEP DSST FEMA to them. Can someone post outline of courses I need broken down to general edu, selective, etc....thanks for all your help.

[KayV]

TESC no longer accepts FEMA, but Charter Oak does, so that might be your best bet.
Criminal Justice - Charter Oak State College

Penn Foster offers a lot of the classes you will need to complete that major.

I bet Sanantone will be along soon to offer better advice about CJ degrees. : )

[momoikapor]

thanks so much. I just need a starting point to build my plan. IF someone has it already please let me know or post it. I would like to use as much as I can CLEP and DSST.

[KayV]

COSC accepts FEMA as follows:
Printable Course List

But they accept it "raw," so you do not have to pay the $80 per credit.

[sanantone]

As KayV said, COSC will be your best option for utilizing your FEMA credits. COSC's degree will technically be in General Studies with a concentration in Criminal Justice, but their concentrations are equivalent to majors. What is it that you want to do with a criminal justice degree? It is not a test friendly program. Also as KayV said, Penn Foster offers a lot of ACE-approved CJ courses that will be cheaper than courses at any of the Big 3. Propero offers some CJ courses too, but the reviews for them so far have not been good. Excelsior and COSC will mostly follow ACE's recommendations for upper and lower level credit. TESC is more about matching degree titles to what they offer or have evaluated in their PLA database.

[KayV]

Short Story: Are you sure a BSBA in General Management or a BA in Social Science from TESC won't work for career goals? It would be considerably cheaper and much more test-friendly.

Long Story: Here is an attempt at a degree plan for you below. As you can see, once you have fulfilled the upper-level/ major requirements, you will only be able to use 26 of the FEMA classes plus the CLEP German for 12. That's a great start, but CJ is not a test-friendly major at all and you will have to take a bunch of classes. See what you think.

Charter Oak BS Criminal Justice
(including 60 Liberal Arts hours, 30 upper level hours, and 36 hours in concentration)
I. General Education Requirements
1. CLEP College Composition 6
2. DSST Principles of Public Speaking 3
3. COSC IDS-101 Cornerstone course (no test) 3
4. DSST Business Ethics in Society 3UL
5. DSST Civil War and Reconstruction 3UL
6. CLEP German Language 12
7. CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 6
8. (DSST Criminal Justice 3)
9. (ALEKS Statistics 3)
10. DSST Environment and Humanity 3
11. Straighterline Science with Lab (no test) 4
12. DSST Substance Abuse 3UL
13. CLEP Intro Psychology 3
14. TECEP Abnormal Psychology 3UL
15. UExcel Cultural Diversity 3UL
16. UExcel Social Psychology 3UL

II. Concentration: Criminal Justice
1. DSST Criminal Justice 3
2. Penn Foster (PF) Criminology 3UL
3. PF Ethics in Criminal Justice 3
4. PF Multicultural Law Enforcement 3
5. ALEKS Statistics 3
6. PF Applied Research Skills 3 or UExcel Research Methods in Psych 3UL
7. DSST Intro to Computing 3
8. PF Criminal Law 3
9. PF Criminology 3UL
10. UExcel Juvenile Delinquency 3UL
11. PF Victimology 3 (or other CJ elective)
12. COSC CRJ-499 Criminal Justice Capstone 3UL

III. Free Electives
26 FEMA