Here's to your health only a free elective at TESC

[walternc3]

I just got this email back from TESC when I asked them why HTYH was put into the free electives area.

"HEA-103 is not considered to be a Humanities, Social Science or Natural Science course. As such, it will remain in the Free Elective area. Should you have more questions, please contact our office again. Thank you."

So if you're one of those people like me that did this test because it was listed in one of the older degree plan templates that are floating around this forum be warned. You'll have to do something else to fill that slot. If anyone knows if this was previously accepted at TESC as a Gen'l Elective and then they changed thier minds I'd be curious to know when that happened as perhaps it occured after I enrolled in February 2012 and I can fight it. I guess I'll have to go back to Straighterline and knock out American History I in two days to cover it.

[cooperalex2004]

I just got this email back from TESC when I asked them why HTYH was put into the free electives area.

"HEA-103 is not considered to be a Humanities, Social Science or Natural Science course. As such, it will remain in the Free Elective area. Should you have more questions, please contact our office again. Thank you."

So if you're one of those people like me that did this test because it was listed in one of the older degree plan templates that are floating around this forum be warned. You'll have to do something else to fill that slot. If anyone knows if this was previously accepted at TESC as a Gen'l Elective and then they changed thier minds I'd be curious to know when that happened as perhaps it occured after I enrolled in February 2012 and I can fight it. I guess I'll have to go back to Straighterline and knock out American History I in two days to cover it.

Substance abuse (DSST) would fit, but HTYH doesn't since it is a "human services" course in the health category. A reminder to everyone, unless you make a prearranged deal with an advisor, expect that courses will only match the areas listed on the transfer grid and always double check if you see something listed on a degree plan from here or elsewhere. It is possible to get some courses to move around in many cases, but some courses like HTYH have a specific match that TESC doesn't like to change. That course has been listed this way for at least the past year if not longer, someone may have gotten an advisor to switch it once or twice but it remains a health course and health (HEA) is not in any of the general education areas.

Note that "Human Services" courses from the grids in the links below don't work for general education areas unless you can convice an advisor to move them or preapprove a different coding for the exam.

CLEP grid:
CLEP - College-Level Exam Program

DSST grid:
DANTES

TECEP exam grid:
About TECEPÂ Exams

[sanantone]

Here's to Your Health is the only human services test that is not regularly transcribed as something that would fit under general education (social science, natural science, mathematics, and humanities). Dozens, if not hundreds, of people have had the other human services tests transcribed as social sciences with ease. You may have to ask an advisor to move them, but you usually don't have to put up a big fuss to get them to do it. It's always good to email advisement beforehand. The people on the advisement hotline are often clueless. A person on the advisement hotline told me Fundamentals of Counseling wouldn't count as an UL social science. I knew that was wrong because so many people on this forum have had it transcribed that way. I don't remember having it pre-planned. If I did, I did it after I took the test. I was pressed for time and took my chances.

I want to stress something that is repeatedly brought up here. TESC would not code Intro to LE and Intro to CJ the same as it does its equivalent courses that are counted as social sciences if those tests were not counted as social sciences too. That wouldn't make any sense. If those tests did not include social science content while their courses do, then TESC wouldn't code them as equivalents. They would be given a different code because they do not have the same content. Fundamentals of Counseling and Here's to Your Health are different because they are not listed as being coded the same as any general education courses at TESC.

TESC is prone to making mistakes, even on its webpage. Their BA in Social Science page used to say that some humanities courses would count as social sciences if they contained social science-related content. They even went on to list examples. When I tried to challenge some transfer courses under those grounds, they told me no humanities courses would be counted as social sciences and promptly removed that disclaimer from the page.

[walternc3]

Well thank heaven for ALEKS. Now I have two courses that don't fit at the last minute before graduation and I'll fill those slots with College Algebra and Statistics through ALEKS. Cheap credit