TESC Humanities Degree Plan - Thoughts?

[defscarlett]

How does this look as a degree plan for Humanities? I still need 6 UL credits in Humanities to fill it out, but everything else is all testing. Does anyone know if the 3 Ethics courses that I have will all apply or do any of those duplicate? You will also note that there is a lack of History and Public Speaking courses, for a reason LOL! If anyone has any suggestions for "easier" tests or classes that aren't history please let me know!

I. General Education Requirements 60
A. English Composition 6
ENGLISH COMPOSITION CLEP 6

B. Humanities 12
Must include at least two subject areas
ECE INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC 3
TECEP TECHNICAL WRITING 3
DSST ART OF THE WESTERN WORLD 3
DSST ETHICS IN AMERICA 3

C. Social Sciences 12
Must include at least two subject areas
CLEP INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY 3
CLEP INTRO TO SOCIOLOGY 3
DSST HUMAN/CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY 3
DSST SUBSTANCE ABUSE 3


D. Natural Sciences and Mathematics 12
One college-level mathematics course required
(3) ALEKS INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA
One computer science course recommended
(3) DSST INTRO TO COMPUTING
Other natural sciences/mathematics
(6) CLEP BIOLOGY


E. General Education Electives 18
CLEP NATURAL SCIENCES 6
ALEKS COLLEGE ALGEBRA 3
ALEKS STATISTICS 3
DSST ASTRONOMY 3
DSST ORGANIZATIONA

II. Area of Study: Humanities 33
A. REQUIREMENTS
1. Students complete 30 credits in the humanities concentration
30
2. At least three different subjects must be included, which provides for breadth of knowledge in the humanities. Also, students must earn at least 12 credits in one subject area. A maximum of 18 credits can be earned in any one subject area in order to have a balanced interdisciplinary concentration.
3. Courses transferred to Thomas Edison State College are equated to the following levels: 100, 200, 300 or 400. A maximum of two college-level courses equating to the 100 level can be applied toward the area of concentration. A minimum of 18 credits equating to 300 or 400 Thomas Edison State College courses are required.
4. LIB-495 Liberal Arts Capstone is required

CLEP SPANISH LEVEL 1 6
CLEP SPANISH LEVEL 2 12

CLEP ANALYZING & INTERPRETING LIT 6
CLEP AMERICAN LIT 6
CLEP ENGLISH LIT 6

DSST INTRO TO WORLD RELIGIONS 3
ECE Ethics: Theory & Practice 3
ECE BIOETHICS: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES 3
UL 3
UL 3
LIB 495 CAPSTONE 3

III. Free Electives 27

FEMAs

[sanantone]

According to the PLA database, Bioethics is a biology course. You could probably convince TESC, however, to transcribe it as Biomedical Ethics which is a philosophy course or to just code it differently. This would most likely not duplicate Ethics in America or Ethics: Theory and Practice. I do not know if Ethics in America and Ethics: Theory and Practice will duplicate each other.

I listed humanities options here.
http://www.degreeforum.net/excelsior-tho...post137308

[Lady Grace of Pemberley]

If anyone has any suggestions for "easier" tests or classes that aren't history please let me know!

B. Humanities 12
TECEP TECHNICAL WRITING 3

One thing that I noticed is that you may want to replace the Technical Writing TECEP with the Technical Writing DSST. I would think that the DSST would be a lot easier than the TECEP, as the DSST is all multiple choice (the essay at the end is not required at TESC) and there will be a lot more study materials available for the DSST. Futhermore, if you take the computerized version of the DSST, you will get your scores back immediately, as opposed to the TECEP, where you have to wait a very long time to hear if you passed or not (I'm currently going through this for the Introduction to News Reporting TECEP!). Just something to consider. Overall, your degree plan looks great -- good luck on your degree!!