Please review my General Management degree plan TESC

[UniKitty]

Hello Everyone!
Firstly I want to thank everyone for all the great information provided in this forum. I've been reading and devouring the information for hours, I hope I can soon contribute and be a bigger part of this great community.
I have been composing a degree plan (a big thank you to Sanantone for his degree sample page). I'm hoping I can get some feedback on how I can simplify it, add, rearrange, etc my degree plan so as I can start this new adventure. Going the TECEP route is not an option for me (if I understood how it works correctly) because I'm so far away. As of right now, this is what I have have planned:

GENERAL ED
1. College Composition with Essay CLEP (6 credits)
2. College Algebra ALEKS Algebra (3 credits)
3. Managerial Communications *Straighliner Business Communications (3 credits)

-Intellectual and Practical Skills
Technical Writing DSST (3 credits)

-Human Cultures and the Physical World (9 credits)
1. Microeconomics CLEP
2. Macroeconomics CLEP3
3. Statistics ALEKS

-Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Science or Interdisciplinary studies (9 credits)
1. Social Sciences Introductory Psychology CLEP
2. Natural Sciences Astronomy DSST
3. Humanities Art of the Western World DSST

-Personal and Social Responsibility (9 credits)
1. Diversity/Global Literacy Introduction to World Religions DSST
2. Responsible Ethical Leadership Ethics in America DSST
3. Ethics or Diversity Elective Introduction to Sociology DSST

-General Education Electives (18 credits)
1. Physical Geology DSST
2. General Anthropology DSST
3. Here's to your health DSST
4. Environment & Humanity DSST
5. Human/Cultural Geography DSST
6. ???

PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
BUSINESS CORE (27 credits)
-Principles of Finance
Principles of Finance DSST

-Business Law
Introduction to Business Law CLEP

-Business in Society and International Management
Business Ethics & Society DSST

-Strategic Management
(Penn Foster)

-Computer concepts & Applications/Introduction to computers
Intro to Computing DSST

-Introduction to Marketing
Principles of Marketing CLEP

-Principles of Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting CLEP *or Straightliner Accounting I

-Principles of Management
Principles of Management CLEP

-Principles of Managerial Accounting
(Straighliner-Accounting II)

-Area of Study: BSBA General Management (18 credits)
1. Money & Banking DSST
2. Human Resources Management DSST
3. Organizational Behavior DSST
4. Management Information System DSST
5. ???
6. ???

-Business Electives (9 credits)
1. Business Mathematics DSST
2. Principles of Supervision DSST
3. Intro to Business DSST

-Free Electives (6 credits)
1. Personal Finance DSST
2.Fundamentals of Counseling DSST

Any feedback I can get is greatly appreciated. I'm very new at this and although I'm reading and researching, it's nice to know I'm heading in the right track. Again, thanks everyone!

[KayV]

Welcome! You are off to a good start. Several people here would suggest is substituting TECEPs for at least 24 hours' worth of CLEPs/DSSTs in order to drop the enrollment fees. Also, do you have any previous college experience? Even just a few classes from a long time ago? TESC accepts even Ds for most classes as a credit (CR) on your transcript, so you might be further along than you think if you have any credits already. Good luck!

[bricabrac]

UniKitty,

Actually, you are in a perfect position to use 8 TECEPs to fill your degree plan. You could actually enroll now by registering for the first TECEP exam using the pay per credit tuition plan. From what others have said, your enrollment begins approx 2-3wks after registration. (One person said 10 days others have taken longer.)

Refer to my post for BSBA General Management degree plan. Multiple TECEP exams are listed in different areas. You pick and choose which are best for you.


Good luck!

[LaterBloomer]

KayV,

Be still my beating heart. I'm enrolled in TESC, I'm pursuing my BSBA-GM, AND I'm about to start Col. Alg. Are you saying that if I get a "D" TESC will accept it? Please, let it be so. Don't get me wrong. I'll try for an "A," but I'd fall to my knees in gratitude if I got a "D," and if TESC would let me graduate.

[bricabrac]

Just take a look at your academic evaluation. English Comp I & II and Area of Study requires grade C or above. Any other area a D grade would be accepted. Though in general, I would be careful with the too many D grades.

[KayV]

Yes, they would accept a D in College Algebra as long as you are not a math or natural science/ math major, LaterBloomer. D for Diploma. You are going through Penn Foster for College Algebra, aren't you? After having tried ALEKS? If College Algebra goes through PF, you would end up with CR on your TESC transcript if you earn a D (or an A, for that matter).

[LaterBloomer]

Ahh, yes, D for diploma. That sounds good to me.

Does PF have college algebra? I'll have to look into that in case LSU doesn't work out. ALEKS just didn't work for me either for stats or for col. alg. PF's stats course is killing me. I did okay for the first two exams as they let you take them over a second time within 30 days, and take your best score. The first two tests were on subjects that I managed to do well on due to prior studying for the Intro to Stats test, ALEKS, and a previously failed attempt at PF. Now? Null looks more like my grade for a test than a hypothesis. I'll study and re-take the third exam. Study and take (and probably re-take) the fourt exam, and pray for either a miracle or the end of the world before I have to take the final.

[KayV]

LaterBloomer, I'm trying to send you a PM, but you've used up all your storage space. Anything you could clear out?

[Drakemoore]

Welcome! You are off to a good start. Several people here would suggest is substituting TECEPs for at least 24 hours' worth of CLEPs/DSSTs in order to drop the enrollment fees. Also, do you have any previous college experience? Even just a few classes from a long time ago? TESC accepts even Ds for most classes as a credit (CR) on your transcript, so you might be further along than you think if you have any credits already. Good luck!

I don't mean to thread steal, but what do you mean taking 24 hours worth of credits to drop enrollment fees? I tried checking on the TESC website some but couldn't find much.

[KayV]

At the very end of post #5 on this thread, Bricabrac explains how to use the Pay Per Credit tuition plan at with TECEPs (and explains it better than I ever could!).