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[KayV]

Oh that's wonderful! I have had 6 former students go to Japan/Korea/Taiwan to teach, and they all loved it. The one who went to Beijing had to come home early because the air pollution kept landing her in the hospital. Taiwan is celebrating her 7th year there and one of the girls in Japan is in her ninth year, I think.

FWIW, former students in Panama love it there too.

Since you love the arts and also want to teach, here is a degree plan that majors in Humanities. To impress the TEFL recruiter, though, you have lots of literature and communications classes in the major, and you have a bunch of psych and education hours in your free electives. If you ever decide to teach stateside, the 12 hours in education will meet the requirements for most private school accrediting agencies, and will also help with alternate certification for public school.

You also have at least 24 credit hours of TESC TECEP exams and the Capstone so that you can enroll using the Pay Per Credit option, thereby avoiding the enrollment fee.

This obviously can be tweaked when you find out which AP credits you have, or if you just really don't want to take one of these exams.

Good luck and please keep us informed.
TESC BA Humanities
(for teaching ESL)
I. General Education Requirements
1. CLEP College Composition 6 (or 2 TECEPs)
2. TECEP Applied Liberal Arts Mathematics 3
3. TECEP Technical Writing 3
4. TECEP Computer Concepts and Applications 3
5. CLEP Humanities 6
6. CLEP Social Sciences 6
7. SL Intro to Environmental Science 3
8. DSST Human/Cultural Geography 3
9. SL Cultural Anthropology 3
10. SL/CLEP Intro to Sociology 3
11. TECEP Environmental Ethics 3
12. LIT-205/206-CE American Literature 6
13. DSST ART-166-DE Art of the Western World 3
14. Any General Ed TECEP 3
15. Any General Ed TECEP 3
16. Any General Ed exam 3


II. Area of Study: Humanities (33 credits, 18UL)
A. Literature (12)
1. LIT-208/209-CE English Literature 6
2. LIT-291/292-CE Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 6
B. Communications (12, 9UL)
3. TECEP Public Relations Thought & Practice (COM-210-TE) 3
4. SL Business Communications (COM-300) 3UL
5. Saylor Managerial Communications (COM-373) 3UL
6. Penn Foster Interpersonal Communication (COM-330) 3UL
C. Philosophy (3UL)
7. SL PHI-384 Business Ethics 3UL
D. Religion (3UL)
8. SL or DSST REL-405 Intro to World Religions 3UL
E. Liberal Arts Capstone LIB-495 3UL


III. Free Electives (in which we impress the TEFL recruiter)
1. CLEP Spanish Language 12 using spanishhour.com (any language will look good)
2. SL/CLEP Intro to Psychology 3
3. CLEP Human Growth and Development or DSST Lifespan Psych 3
4. CLEP Intro to Educational Psychology 3
5. DSST Foundations of Education 3
6. UExcel Literacy Instruction in the Elementary School 6

If you don’t want to take the Spanish exam, you could finish those 12 credits with anything, including the no-cost TEEX Cybersecurity series for 6 hours, NFA for 3 hours, and Kaplan PLA for 3 hours.

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Sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm going to be a high school senior. I've taken a few AP classes, but I'm unsure how much I have accumated. When school starts I'm planning on talking to the guidance counselor.

TESC has an age requirement that applicants be 21 years of age or older. If you're applying soon, you may need to request for special admission. I'm not sure what the chances of getting in are.... but students who enter through one of TESC's affiliates are able to get the age requirement waived.

[Nine]

Thanks, I already read a few threads on here regarding the issue. A few users received admission rather easily by e-mailing a page length essay to the admissions director.

[Nine]

I would love to travel and teach in other countries, but decided on Korea to rekindle family connections. It's reassuring to hear about the positive experiences your students received, although unfortunate in Beijing's case. Did they ever try relocating to another country or a more rural area in China?

Thank you so much for providing this detailed roster! Are there specific exams I should study and take first, like the general education requirements, or I can just pick and choose? I might group together similar subjects to study for and take the exams together.

[benjenkinsv95]

I Are there specific exams I should study and take first, like the general education requirements, or I can just pick and choose? I might group together similar subjects to study for and take the exams together.

There isn't any real order you need to take the exams, unless the exam has a prerequisite. Such as taking Calculus after Precalculus. I would suggest taking your general education requirements first in case you decide you want to switch your major at any point during your degree. I believe the general education requirements are either the same or very similar for different TESC majors so those credits should be able to transfer in case you decide you want to do something else.

A few users received admission rather easily by e-mailing a page length essay to the admissions director.

Most of those users also had 60 or more credits upon requesting admission. The least I've seen is about 30 from a guy who was about 20 and a half at his time of admission. Just something to keep in mind, as you will need to prove you can handle college work upon requesting your waiver of the age policy. I personally applied with 78 credits at 18, so it is doable of course.