Ok guys I'm going with Sanantone's BSBA degree plan! still need a lil help

[tonywantsadegree]

I'll be honest I'm still a bit lost, but at least I can start testing right away and knock some of these credits out. There was mention of FEMA credits but Sanantone does not list any FEMA exams on this plan. Can someone (Sanantone) fill me in on which of these courses I can use FEMA exams for? IN the Area of Study section how did you know exactly which courses to take Sanantone? It's a pretty expansive list on the TESC BSBA. Can I choose any course I want from the list as long as they give me the 18 credits required? One last thing, I don't see English Comp or other humanities listed on the plan, but they show as being required by TESC. As I said I'm still a tad bit lost so hopefully you guys can help me with clarity.

THanks again!



BSBA in General Management degree plan:

Humanities Requirement
Managerial Business Communications: Straighterline (Business Communications)

Social Science Requirements
Macroeconomics: Straighterline and CLEP
Microeconomics: Straighterline and CLEP

Math Requirements
Precalculus or Quantitative Analysis: ALEKS (Trigonometry or Precalculus), Straighterline, and CLEP
Principles of Statistics: DSST, Straighterline, ALEKS, and UExcel

Business Core
Principles of Finance: DSST
Business Law: CLEP (Introductory Business Law), DSST Business Law II
Business in Society or International Management: TECEP or DSST (Business Ethics and Society)
Business Policy: TECEP (Strategic Management)

Computer Requirement: CLEP (Information Systems and Computer Applications) or DSST (Introduction to Computing or Management Information Systems)
Introduction to Marketing: CLEP
Principles of Financial Accounting: DSST, CLEP, ECE, or Straighterline (Accounting I)
Principles of Managerial Accounting: ECE or Straighterline (Accounting II)
Principles of Management: CLEP

Area of Study Options
DSST Management Information Systems
DSST Money and Banking
DSST or ECE Organizational Behavior
DSST or ECE Human Resource Management
ECE Labor Relations
Straighterline Managerial Accounting (transcribed as Cost Accounting)
TECEP Federal Income Taxation
TECEP Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
TECEP Financial Institutions and Markets
TECEP Marketing Communications
TECEP Sales Management
TECEP Advertising
TECEP Operations Management

Business Elective Options
DSST or Straighterline Introduction to Business
DSST Business Mathematics
DSST Principles of Supervision

[sanantone]

I did not include all of the general education requirements; there are just too many options. I only included the general education requirements that are specific to the BSBA. The BSBA allows for 6 free elective credits; that's where the FEMAs can go. For the 18 credits in the area of study, they have to be in at least 3 different subjects. You can't complete all 18 in marketing, for example. The subjects you can choose from are finance, marketing, management, and accounting. Cost Accounting and Federal Income Taxation fall under accounting. Human Resources, Labor Relations, Management Information Systems, and Organizational Behavior fall under management. I believe the rest fall under either marketing or finance.

Here are the BSBA requirements in full.

BSBA in General Management Degree Program

You can pretty much figure out how to fill in the general education requirements with these links. Just remember that Intro to Criminal Justice, Intro to Law Enforcement, and Fundamentals of Counseling are counted as social sciences even though they are listed as human services.

DANTES
CLEP - College-Level Exam Program
TECEPs
Thomas Edison State College: Course Offerings
Transfer College Credits To Thomas Edison State College (TESC) - StraighterLine
ECEs and Uexcel
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This link can also help you figure out how TESC classifies various subjects.

Thomas Edison State College: General Education Electives

[tonywantsadegree]

I did not include all of the general education requirements; there are just too many options. I only included the general education requirements that are specific to the BSBA. The BSBA allows for 6 free elective credits; that's where the FEMAs can go. For the 18 credits in the area of study, they have to be in at least 3 different subjects. You can't complete all 18 in marketing, for example. The subjects you can choose from are finance, marketing, management, and accounting. Cost Accounting and Federal Income Taxation fall under accounting. Human Resources, Labor Relations, Management Information Systems, and Organizational Behavior fall under management. I believe the rest fall under either marketing or finance.

Seriously Sanantone you're probably one of the most helpful strangers I've met in the past two years! Since I posted your business and spoke with my wife (who's enrolled in a B&M right now) it all clicked! Well maybe not all but I feel a greater since of understanding since posting this thread.

[tonywantsadegree]

After a few revisions and looking at Levi's plan I think this is my plan moving forward. Only exception is I don't think I want to go with a SL course for Managerial Accounting but I haven't found a CLEP or DSST to substitute. Also, Managerial Business Communication is there an alternate to the TESC course? I have Intro to sociology and Western Europe in blew because I'd like to substitute those with course more interesting to be but are available in CLEP or DSST. I will continue looking into that this week.

Good news is I'm already 3 credits into the BSBA as I've knocked out 3 FEMA exams and will finish the rest possibly tonight but no later that tomorrow.


The Plan: BSBA
I. General Education Requirements - 60 credits

A. English Composition - 6 credits

English Composition w/ Essay - CLEP [the new CLEP is called College Composition] (6)

B. Humanities - 12 credits

Managerial Business Communications - TESC guided study course (3)
Analyzing & Interpreting Literature - CLEP (6)

Humanities - CLEP (3) [partial credit]

C. Social Sciences - 12 credits
Macroeconomics - CLEP (3)

Microeconomics - CLEP (3)
Introductory Sociology - CLEP (3)

Western Europe since 1945 - DSST (3)

D. Natural Sciences & Mathematics - 9 credits

Precalculus - CLEP (3)

Principles of Statistics - DSST (3)
Natural Sciences - CLEP (3) [partial credit]

E. General Education Electives - 21 credits
Intro to Law Enforcement - DSST (3)
College Mathematics - CLEP (6)
Humanities - CLEP (3) [partial credit]

Natural Sciences - CLEP (3) [partial credit]

Social Sciences & History - CLEP (6)


II. Professional Business Requirements - 54 credits
A. Business Core - 27 credits

Financial Accounting - CLEP (3)
Managerial Accounting - Straighterline Accounting II (3) (alt to SL)
Introductory Business Law - CLEP (3)
Intro to Computing - DSST (3)
Principles of Finance - DSST (3)
Principles of Management - CLEP (3)

Principles of Marketing - CLEP (3)
Business Ethics in Society - DSST (3)

Business Policy - TECEP (3)

B. Area of Study: General Management - 18 credits
Money & Banking - DSST (3)

Management Information Systems - DSST (3)

Marketing Communications - TECEP (3)

Advertising - TECEP (3)

Organizational Behavior - DSST (3)

Human Resources Management - DSST (3)

C. Business Electives - 9 credits

Business Mathematics - DSST (3)

Principles of Supervision - DSST (3)

Intro to Business - DSST (3)

III. Free Electives - 6 credits

FEMA Courses

[sanantone]

For social science credit, you have a ton of options. The alternative to the Managerial Business Communications course at TESC would be the Business Communications course at Straighterline. Someone else suggested in another thread to ask TESC about Excelsior's new ECE for Workplace Communication with Computers. There is an ECE for Managerial Accounting as mentioned in the plan I made. You could also look into Penn Foster. These courses were ACE approved the last time I checked.

Administration of an Early Childhood Education Center
Administration of Justice
Advanced Composition
Advertising Principles
Applied Research Skills
Art Appreciation
Art, Music and Movement
Business and Technical Writing
Business Ethics
Business Law I
Business Law II
Business Research Methods
Business Statistics
Child, Family, and Community
Community Corrections
Compensation Management
Computer Applications
Computer Applications in Accounting
Computer-Based Crime
Consumer Behavior
Corporate Finance
Correctional Institutions
Cost Accounting
Courts
Crime Scene Investigation Basics
Criminal Evidence
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedures
Criminalistics
Criminology
Crisis Intervention
Cultural Diversity in the Early Childhood Program
Curriculum for Early Childhood Education
Customer Service
Developing Math and Science Skills in Young Children
Earth Science
Economics I
Economics II
Electronic Circuits
Employee Benefits
Engineering Mechanics
English Composition
Essentials of Psychology
Ethics in Criminal Justice
Financial Accounting
Financial Management
Foundations of Political Science
Fundamentals of Early Childhood Education
Fundamentals of Electricity
Fundamentals of Electronics
Guidance in Early Childhood Education
Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child
Human Resources Management
Infant and Toddler Care
Information Literacy
Intermediate Accounting I
Intermediate Accounting II
International Business
International Relations
Interpersonal Communication
Introduction to Biology
Introduction to Business
Introduction to Computer Programming
Introduction to Criminal Justice
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to Private Security
Introduction to Programming
Introduction to Sociology
Juveniles and the Legal Process
Labor Relations
Language and Literacy Development in Young Children
Legal Environment of Business
Managerial Accounting
Marketing Research
Math for Business and Finance
Merchandise Planning and Buying
Multicultural Law Enforcement
Music Appreciation
Nutrition
Organizational Behavior
Organized Crime
Personal Financial Management
Physical Science
Play in the Lives of Young Children
Police Management
Police Studies
Principles of Management
Retail Management
Securities and Investments
Security and Loss Prevention
Security Management
Speech
Strategic Business Management
Substance Abuse and Treatment in Criminal Justice
Supervision and Leadership
Supply Chain Management
Terrorism
Tool Design I
Tool Design II
Training Concepts
Victimology
White Collar Crime
Women and Criminal Justice
Working with Preschoolers

[Yanji]

Have you considered TECEP Public Relations: Thought and Practice? It's all multiple-choice and will count in a General Management Area of Study. I've taken it and it's very manageable. It's probably easier than Marketing Communications which involves some writing.

[sam_wendt]

From what I've studied here, Statistics from ALEKS does not transfer to the TESC Statistics. You will need to take it via Straighterline or DSST. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

[Tasman]

Statistics does transfer from Aleks

[sanantone]

Statistics does transfer from Aleks

I concur. The only change TESC has made is that business statistics is no longer accepted as operations management, so it duplicates the other ALEKS statistics courses.