Need help developing a plan

[SirTeacherGuy]

I am developing a plan for completing the program whose information page I have linked to below.

Thomas Edison State College Undergraduate Certificate in Marketing
http://www.tesc.edu/business/Marketing.cfm

I used Sanantone's BSBA in Marketing at TESC plan to help me develop my plan.

Here is my plan so far.

[table="width: 500, class: grid"]
[tr]
[td]TESC Required Courses[/td]
[td]Credits[/td]
[td]Means of Obtaining Credit[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Introduction To Marketing[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]CLEP, Saylor, and Uexcel ECEP[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Marketing Research[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]Marketing Research (UL) – Penn Foster (verify current ACE approval)[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Marketing Communications[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]TECEP Marketing Communications (UL)[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Students select nine (9) credits from the following:

1. Advertising (3)
   
2. Channels of Distribution (3)
   
3. Marketing Management Strategy (3)
   
4. Sales Management (3)
   
5. Principles of Sales (3)
   

[/td]
[td]9[/td]
[td]Possible options for fulfilling nine (9) credit requirement:

1. TECEP Advertising (UL)
   
2. ???
   
3. ???
   
4. TECEP Sales Management (UL)
   
5. ???
   

[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Total[/td]
[td]18[/td]
[td][/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

As can be seen, I am not sure if there is any way, other than taking the actual courses at TESC, I can earn the last three credits remaining that I haven't found some sort of course or exam for.

Also, is there an alternative to taking the Penn Foster College course for the Marketing Research course?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[SirTeacherGuy]

Accidental post. Please delete.

[bricabrac]

Recommendations:

Intro to Marketing - CLEP (very easy)
Marketing Communications - TECEP

It would be best to take Marketing Research with Penn Foster than at TESC. The PF courses are much, much easier and you only need pass at 70% for ACE credit. Transfers to TESC transcript as CR. If you receive anything below a B grade at TESC it does not help your GPA. (Overall, I took 33cr at TESC and it wasn't easy holding a 3.8GPA. Midterms, at least for the courses I took, would be considered difficult. You really needed to study and apply yourself.)

Marketing Electives (9cr):

1. Sales Management - TECEP
2. Advertising - TECEP
3. Retail Management - Penn Foster (TESC Equivalency # REM-301)[INDENT]ACE Guide - attach course description to an email to TESC advising to ask if this course could be used to meet a marketing elective requirement. [/INDENT]


If TESC will not accept PF Retail Management, an alternate:
TESC Online Course-
Principle of Sales (MAR-310)[INDENT]*Note: Sales is also usually offered at the community college level. You could quite possibly take it as a CC Online course and transfer it in. Testing is much easier at the CC level than at TESC.[/INDENT]

[sanantone]

Those elective options TESC gives don't seem to be very popular as online courses at other colleges. I don't know why TESC chose to require such a short list of specific marketing courses other than they might be trying to get people to take one of their courses. MIT offers an open course in marketing management that goes over strategies. You could possibly use that to create a portfolio through TESC or Learning Counts.
Marketing Management | Sloan School of Management | MIT OpenCourseWare