Rough draft for degree plan

[lemonsama]

Okay so I have a rough draft for a degree I wanted to see what you guys thought and if you had any advice especially for the literature requirements which you see have nothing as I'm still thinking up a game plan for them.

[Photog]

It is looking good so far

I don't think tests are available for a lot of the BA English credits, so you will need to complete quite a few courses.

There are English courses available at: (thanks to KayV, Sanantone, and Westerner)

BYU
Adams State University
Western Washington University
Fresno Pacific
University of Idaho
Colorado State Pueblo

and TESC have a few too.


ALEKS can be used to get 12 math credits for $20 if you prepare in advance and complete them in one month. These can fill out some gen ed.
There are quite a few credits available at Saylor for free, or very low cost, that will help fill out gen ed. and free electives.
NFA 3 free credits for free electives.
TEEX 6 free credits for free electives.
Kaplan PLA course 3 free credits for free electives.

Also consider Straighterline.

[KayV]

I just posted some ideas for you on the other thread.

[KayV]

TESC BA Humanities
(for teaching ESL)
I. General Education Requirements
1. CLEP College Composition 6 (or 2 TECEPs)
2. TECEP Applied Liberal Arts Mathematics 3
3. TECEP Technical Writing 3
4. TECEP Computer Concepts and Applications 3
5. CLEP Humanities 6
6. CLEP Social Sciences 6
7. SL Intro to Environmental Science or TECEP Nutrition 3
8. DSST or SL Human/Cultural Geography 3
9. SL Cultural Anthropology 3
10. SL/CLEP Intro to Sociology 3
11. TECEP Environmental Ethics or DSST Ethics 3
12. LIT-205/206-CE American Literature 6
13. DSST ART-166-DE Art of the Western World 3
14. Any General Ed TECEP 3
15. Any General Ed TECEP 3
16. Any General Ed exam 3


II. Area of Study: Humanities (33 credits, 18UL)
A. Literature (12)
1. LIT-208/209-CE English Literature 6
2. LIT-291/292-CE Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 6
B. Communications (12, 9UL)
3. TECEP Public Relations Thought & Practice (COM-210-TE) 3
4. SL Business Communications (COM-300) 3UL
5. Saylor Managerial Communications (COM-373) 3UL
6. Penn Foster Interpersonal Communication (COM-330) 3UL
C. Philosophy (3UL)
7. SL PHI-384 Business Ethics 3UL
D. Religion (3UL)
8. SL or DSST REL-405 Intro to World Religions 3UL
E. Liberal Arts Capstone LIB-495 3UL


III. Free Electives (in which we impress the TEFL recruiter)
1. CLEP Spanish Language 12 using spanishhour.com (any language will look good)
2. SL/CLEP Intro to Psychology 3
3. CLEP Human Growth and Development or DSST Lifespan Psych 3
4. CLEP Intro to Educational Psychology 3
5. DSST Foundations of Education 3
6. UExcel Literacy Instruction in the Elementary School 6
If you don’t want to take the Spanish exam, you could finish those 12 credits with anything, including the no-cost TEEX Cybersecurity series for 6 hours, NFA for 3 hours, and Kaplan PLA for 3 hours.

Also, if you wanted to avoid the Penn Foster class, you could switch to a BA in Liberal Studies and take the TECEP in Abnormal Psychology (PSY-350) or DSST Fundamentals of Counseling (PSY-331) for those last three upper level hours.

[happydayruth]

Lemonsama, here is my degree plan for my BA in English at TESC. I purposely chose to take a couple grammar/linguistic-leaning courses because of the direction I want to head post degree. Also, please note that I haven't completed all of this yet, but it is approved by TESC and listed on my academic evaluation with them (with the exception of the UExcel exam - I haven't asked them to add that yet) .

TESC BA English

I. General Education Requirements (60)
1. CLEP College Composition 6
2. Saylor or ALEKS algebra 3
3. Intro to Computing DSST 3
4. Public Relations Thought & Practice TECEP 3
5. CLEP Humanities 6
6. Intro to Sociology CLEP 3
7. Ethics in America DSST 3
8. General Anthropology DSST 3
9. Human/Cultural Geography DSST 3
10. Environment & Humanity DSST 3
11. Intro to Psychology CLEP 3
12. Human Growth & Development CLEP 3
13. Educational Psychology CLEP 3
14. Intro to Technical Writing DSST 3
15. Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union DSST 3
16. Intro to World Religions DSST 3
17. Analyzing and Interpreting Lit CLEP 3 (split)
18. Descriptive Grammar of the English Language LSU 3


II. Area of Study: (33 credits, 15UL)

1. American Literature CLEP 6
2. Analyzing and Interpreting Lit CLEP (split)
Non-Western Literature
3. Russian Literature APU 3
English Electives
4. English Literature CLEP 6
5. Shakespeare APU 3 UL
6. The English Language SNHU 3 UL
7. One Writer’s Vision: Jane Austen TESC 3 UL
8. Studies in Literature: Fantasy of Tolkien & Lewis BYU 3 UL
9. Liberal Arts Capstone TESC 3 UL


III. Free Electives (27 credits)
1. Intro to Marketing CLEP 3
2. Here’s to Your Health DSST 3
3. Kaplan PLA course 3
4. TEEX Cybersecurity courses 6
6. UExcel Literacy Instruction in the Elementary School 6
7. Prior music course credits 6

Also, check out APU's literature courses. They offer quite a few. I really enjoyed the Russian Literature course and I'm in the middle of taking Shakespeare from them right now as well.