[New][Help needed] Need some insight/help planning BACS/BSCS

[TalentlessOlympian]

I looked at your spreadsheet. I am only going to comment on the Gen Eds & Free Electives since I don't know a ton about the Area of Study well. I also am guessing that all of your math credits will work, but I'm not sure that TESU will not consider some duplicates (Trig & Precalc Algebra). If they do, then you would need an additional course.

Here's what you still need:

1) Cornerstone - must take at TESU, $300 - this will get your enrollment going for a year

2) Public Speaking/Speech - DSST or SL's Intro to Comm

3) Info Lit - A&I Lit CLEP*, Intro to Religions SL or DSST, Technical Writing DSST or TECEP*
* the TECEP is good because it's easy and will get your enrollment going for a year, the CLEP is good because it's 6cr

4) Diversity Requirement - Sociology (CLEP, TECEP*, SL), Anthropology (SL)
* TECEP will get your enrollment going for a year, and is all multiple choice

5) Civic Engagement Requirement - American Government CLEP or SL

6) And additional Gen Ed of any kind, whatever is easiest for you (Saylor has a couple of POLS courses that might be easy to study for if you already have to study for Am Govt, or the CLEP from above will put extra credits here instead)

7) In the Free Electives section, the Student Success course you already took will be here - you can add the free Ethics course (2cr), free TEEX courses (6cr), free NFA courses (3cr), ALEKS Statistics (3cr), most of the Saylor courses will work here

Also, you have some notes to the side of some, I'm not quite understanding them, and most will not work. Here's the problems with those:
1) Quant Lit Req: any of the other math courses you have taken will work here, so you don't need ALEKS Stats if you don't want it
2) Info Lit Req: English won't count here, and it's already in the Written Comm Req anyway
3) Diversity Req: American History won't count here, but it will go in Knowledge of Human Cultures area
4) French 1 & 2 in HS - if these were HS courses, they don't count as college courses so you won't get credit for them
5) Understanding the Physical & Natural World - Intermediate Algebra won't fit here, it will go into Quant Lit area or Gen Ed Electives, you have other science that will fit

I have a couple problems with the notes you left at the end. Nothing personal...
Quant Lit Req: That should be covered by a math. (Precalc for ex)
Info Lit Req: That should be covered by a general literature course. (American lit. for ex)
Diversity Req: I feel like that should be covered by Human Development.
Language: French 1 n 2 were supposed to transfer from HS to College as an equivalency for their language credits. So, I would assume that I would be given credit for it even now.
Understanding the Physical & Natural World: High maths/sciences should fit in here. Just as you stated.


I'm a bit annoyed with the process. I don't want to sell myself short of credits due to being arrogant but I don't want to waste time in subjects that won't help me.

I am quite excited to start and cash in on these free credits. Currently I enrolled into Cyber 101, but I was hoping these courses could be cut shorter. They want 10 hours of my time. How do people get these credits so quickly?