Please Critique my Plan for Psych BA at TESC

[anonymouse]

Having relied heavily on all of the excellent information on this site, the wiki, and the most recent course layout from TESC, this is the plan I have devised for obtaining my BA by Spring 2015. Underlined credits I have already completed. The FEMA classes are currently approved by TESC for credit.
I am not yet enrolled in TESC.

Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions! I recently learned about testing out of college and am insanely excited.

I hope the list below is coherent.


Thanks,
Belle


BA in Psychology Credit Distribution

I. General Education Requirements 60

A. Intellectual and Practical Skills 15
3 English Composition I (ENC-101) (3)- univ
3 English Composition II (ENC-102) (3)- univ
3 College-Level Math Course (3)- univ
 Electives in Intellectual and Practical Skills 6
3 Creative Writing (3)- univ
3 Writing and Dig Media (3)- univ

B. Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World 18
Humanities 3
o Acting I (3)- univ

 Social Sciences 3
o Am History I (3)- CLEP

 Natural Sciences 3
o Intro Computing (3)- univ

 Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences or Interdisciplinary 9
o Theater Production (3)- univ
o American Lit (3)- univ
o Rhetoric writing class(3)- univ

C. Personal and Social Responsibility 9
 Diversity/Global Literacy 3
o Intro Socio (3)- CLEP

Responsible Ethical Leadership 3
o Business Ethics (3)- DSST

 Other Ethics or Diversity Course 3
o General Anthropology (3)- DSST

D. General Education Electives 18
o Spanish (12)- CLEP
o Costume Design (3)- PLA
o Set Design (3)- PLA

II. Area of Study: Psychology 33
A. Required Courses 9

- Introduction to Psychology 3
o Intro to Psychology (3)- CLEP

- Statistics 3
o ALEKS Statistics (3)- ALEKS

- Experimental Psychology 3
o Research Methods in Psychology (3)- ECE

B. Capstone 3
 LIB-495 Liberal Arts Capstone (3)

C. Psychology Electives 21

o DSST Organizational Behavior (UL)
o DSST Fundamentals of Counseling (transcribed as PSY 331)
o DSST Substance Abuse (UL)
o CLEP Introduction to Educational Psychology
o CLEP Human Growth and Development
o ECE Abnormal Psychology (UL)
o ECE Social Psychology (UL)

D. Requirements
 Courses transferred to Thomas Edison State College are equated to the following levels: 100, 200, 300 or 400. A minimum of 18 credits equating to 300 or 400 are required.

III. Free Electives 27
o Principles of Marketing (3)-CLEP (1/5)
o Principles of Management (3)- CLEP (1/5)
o How to make a portfolio (2)- TESC
o Persuasive Writing (3)- univ
o Analyzing Lit (3)- CLEP
o FEMA (12)

Total 120

[sanantone]

Were those PLAs pre-approved for general education? TESC is picky about what will count as a liberal arts subject. It's all about theory vs. applied. I'll use criminal justice for example because it's what I'm most familiar with. A criminal justice course that focuses on the theories of human behavior would count as a social science, thus, a general education course. A criminal justice course that teaches law enforcement techniques is considered applied, therefore, it would not count as a social science or general education course.

[anonymouse]

I contacted TESC to learn if the school would accept these credits, and it will. I didn't ask about how they would be applied. That is good info, sanantone. Thanks.
I can make the PLAs Free Electives and move the writing and Lit courses from the Free Elec to Gen Ed.