Nice to Meet you from an English Major! (Degree Plan help?)

[livelovelaugh91897]

Hello Everyone,
I'm 19 year old English major(TESU).
Since 2015 I've been contemplating this path, and have decided to take it seriously. The goal is to test 80 credits by the end of August (hopefully sooner), and then enroll into TESU. Once enrolled (pay-by-credit) all the other credits would be earned with self-paced classes, and the end result would be to graduate in 2 years or less. This is a really rough plan, so I would appreciate any help/feedback.


Intellectual & Practical Skills
General Education-60 Credits
Written communication: English Comp 1&2 (Straighterline)
Oral Communication: Intro to communication (Straighterline)
Quantative Literacy: College Algebra (Straighterline)
Information Literacy: Technical Writing (DSST)

Civic & Global Learning
Diversity: Introduction to Sociology (CLEP)
Ethnics: Business Ethics & Society (DSST)
Civic: American Goverment (Straighterline)

Knowledge of Human Cultures
Social Science: World Geography (Any recommendations)
Natural Science: Marriage and The Family (CLEP)
Humanities: World Religions (DSST)
Humanities 2 : Intro to Philosophy (Staighterline)

Understanding the Physical and Natural World
Intro to Astronomy (DSST)
Intro to Biology (Recommendations?)

General Education Electives General Chemistry I (Recommendations?)
General Chemistry II (Recommendations?)
Global Environmental Changes (Recommendations?)
Human anatomy & Physiology (Recommendations?)
Human Anatomy & Physiology II (Recommendations?)

English
Required Courses
Survey of Literature 1&2(School)
Analysis and Interpretation (CLEP)
Non Western Literature(School)

English Electives
Children's Literature (School)
Comic & Satiric(School)
Creative Lit.(School)
Mythology(School)
Poetry(School)
Women's Lit. (School)

Free Electives
I really need help in this category! So any ideas will be welcome!

Thank you for reading! eeya:

[dfrecore]

Shmoop will be offering ACE-recommended Lit courses soon (they say), so that might be a great way to get a bunch of Lit courses under your belt before you enroll. It's $85/mo for unlimited courses, which is a price that can't be beat.

Also, Marriage & Family is not a CLEP but a TECEP exam. If you want to take it, that would be a great way to get enrolled at TESU.

[Synicaal]

Shmoop will be offering ACE-recommended Lit courses soon (they say), so that might be a great way to get a bunch of Lit courses under your belt before you enroll. It's $85/mo for unlimited courses, which is a price that can't be beat.

Also, Marriage & Family is not a CLEP but a TECEP exam. If you want to take it, that would be a great way to get enrolled at TESU.

All the Shmoop Lit Courses have been ACE Approved. ACE CREDIT | The National Guide to College Credit for Workforce Training

[livelovelaugh91897]

Thank you for that, I can add it in

[TrailRunr]

TESU does not have self-paced classes. Your homework and exams will be due periodically or you'll lose points (or get a zero for late discussions). It will cost money to get an extension for a class you can't finish on-time. The TESU classes are 12 weeks, which is both good and bad depending on how fast you want to get through the class.

You will need to make sure you have the 15 credits of upper level in the English area of study. The Shmoop classes might not be upper level. It depends on whether the equivalent TESU course is upper level or not. For example, the bible course is going to be lower level because my UL bible course from another school transferred in as LL.

[livelovelaugh91897]

I appreciate your response, as for the self pace classes, I was talking about epack courses and guided study courses, I definitely don't want take any longer than I have to
Also how would I figure out the equivalency to TESU? All the course that I have picked say college next to them on Shmoop, is there a specific website or calculator?

[dfrecore]

I appreciate your response, as for the self pace classes, I was talking about epack courses and guided study courses, I definitely don't want take any longer than I have to
Also how would I figure out the equivalency to TESU? All the course that I have picked say college next to them on Shmoop, is there a specific website or calculator?

At this point, we don't have the equivalencies from TESU on the Shmoop courses. It would certainly be nice if Shmoop could arrange to get those and post them on their website, like SL and Study.com do.

If you were to take the Shmoop Lit courses, you could send them to TESU (on an ACE transcript) and then report back here as to what they were all given for course equivalencies. I'm sure they will all transfer, and they shouldn't duplicate, but we just don't know what they'll come in as.

If anyone else wanted to take the Math courses to see, that would be awesome too!

We do know what the 3 History courses come in as (HIS-113, HIS-114, and HIS-221).

[livelovelaugh91897]

I look into it and so far they say college level, and I correlated the courses by names. I'm also taking College algebra, but unfortunately I won't know until June. I'll update on both math and literature. Hopefully updates before then.:willynilly: