My TESC BALS degree plan

[Daithi]

Here is my degree plan. I primarily selected courses that I thought would be the easiest and quickest for me to complete. However, there are several other courses I plan on taking even after finishing this degree, because I'm interested in the courses, e.g. calculus and physics at StraighterLine, but those will take longer, and I wanted to concentrate on quick and easy to get the degree out of the way first. Hopefully, if someone else is interested in a quick and easy degree plan this may help them too.

BA in Liberal Studies at Thomas Edison State College

I. General Education Requirements__________________60
__A. English Composition_________________________________________6
_____CLEP ENC101/102 College Composition w/Essay________________-6
__B. Humanities_________________________________________________12
_____CLEP HUM101/102 Humanities_________________________________-6
_____CLEP LIT111/112 American Literature________________________-6
__C. Social Sciences (2 subject areas)__________________________12
_____CLEP SOS101/102 Social Sciences and History________________-6
_____CLEP PSY101 Introductory Psychology________________________-3
_____CLEP SOC101 Introductory Sociology_________________________-3
__D. Natural Sciences and Mathematics___________________________12
_____CLEP MAT101/102 College Mathematics________________________-6
_____ALEK MAT121 College Algebra________________________________-3
_____DSST COS101 Introduction to Computing______________________-3
__E. General Education Electives________________________________18
_____CLEP BIO111/112 Biology____________________________________-6
_____ALEK MAT115 Intermediate Algebra___________________________-3
_____ALEK MAT129 Precalculus____________________________________-3
_____ALEK STA201 Intro to Statistics____________________________-3
_____SLINE AOJ102 Introduction to Criminal Justice______________-3

II. Area of Study: Liberal Studies_________________33
__A. Lower Lever Courses (100 & 200 level; 2 @ 100 max.)________15
_____DSST ART166 Art of the Western World_______________________-3
_____CLEP LIT291/292 Analyzing and Interpreting Literature______-6
_____CLEP LIT208/209 English Literature_________________________-6
__B. Upper Lever Courses (300 & 400 level)______________________15
_____DSST REL405 Introduction to World Religions________________-3
_____DSST CIS301 Management Information Systems_________________-3
_____DSST SOS305 Drug & Alcohol / Substance Abuse_______________-3
_____DSST PHI384 Ethics and the Business Professional___________-3
_____DSST PSY361 Organizational Behavior________________________-3
__C. Liberal Arts Capstone_______________________________________3
_____LIB495 Liberal Arts Capstone_______________________________-3

III. Free Electives________________________________27
__A. Free Electives_____________________________________________27
_____FEMA courses______________________________________________-27

TOTAL CREDITS: 120

[sanantone]

Is Ethics and the Business Professional the Business Ethics and Society DSST?

[Daithi]

Yes it is. There is another post on this site that indicated TESC counted DSST Business Ethics and Society as PHI384, but it is normally counted as BUS311, so I'll get it pre-approved right before I take it just to be safe. By the way, I believe the DSST Ethics in America is counted as PHI287, which isn't upper level, so it won't work for my degree.

[NAP]

It's nice to see a new plan for this degree.

Since you are taking the Biology CLEP, consider the Natural Science CLEP, too, which is 50% Biology.

[Daithi]

It's nice to see a new plan for this degree.

Since you are taking the Biology CLEP, consider the Natural Science CLEP, too, which is 50% Biology.

That's funny, as I actually had this in my plan originally, but I took all the ALEKS math courses, so I took out.

[NAP]

Yes, I wasn't sure if it would be the best fit for you either. It could bump out SL CJ and DSST Computing, if you haven't taken them already. Also, double-check CJ; sometimes it counts as Social Science and sometimes as a free elective. I'm not sure which one in this case.

[walternc3]

Could you post your degree plan again with the courses completed in bold or highlighted?

[Daithi]

It looks like the edit button disappears after a while because it doesn't look like I can edit my original post.

I've just started the testing process, so I don't have many done. These are the ones I have done so far---

CLEP ENC101/102 College Composition w/Essay <-- Still waiting to get my score back
ALEK MAT115 Intermediate Algebra
ALEK MAT121 College Algebra
ALEK STA201 Intro to Statistics
FEMA -- 30 courses

I'm currently doing this one now
ALEK MAT129 Precalculus

I'll do the CLEP MAT101/102 College Mathematics next and be done with math for a while. I plan to do the Humanities/Literature items after that as I have done some studying on these subjects, but I tried one of the ALEKS courses and got side tracked.