The New TESC General Education Requirements- Effective July 1, 2013

[freedegreefree]

Has anyone determined what Penn Foster & Straighterline courses with satisfy the Personal and Social Responsibility 9cr hrs AREA?

[ironheadjack]

Personal and Social Responsibility is broken down into 3 categories.
+Diversity or Global Literacy
+Responsible Ethical Leadership
+Personal and Social Responsibility Elective

All you have to do is match up S.L. courses with the gen ed list.

If you wanted to use all S.L. courses you could do:
+Cultural Anthropology
+Business Ethics
+Sociology or Intro to Religions



General Education Courses

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[jam123]

Until somebody gets actual credit for Personal and Social Responsibility electives using DSST/CLEP/SL on an actual evaluation this is all wishful thinking.

I have CLEP Intro to Sociology, DSST Bus. Ethics and Society and SL Business Ethics on my transcript at TESC yet none of them go towards Diversity/Global Literacy or Ethics electives when I do a self evaluation. Unfortunately I am not enrolled at the moment so I can't get a real evaluation done.

[ironheadjack]

Why wouldn't they apply to that part of the degree? TESC knows that one their most attractive aspects is their acceptance of non-traditional sources of credit, it makes no sense why they would put such a random road block in the way of all of their "test out" students.


@jam123- Do the courses you listed fall into free electives or do they fulfill other degree requirements? I assume that since these requirements(responsibility, ethics) are so new, they might not have synced up the online student services to "plug in" yet.

I have Intro to Sociology and Intro to Ethics from community college, and they didn't automatically plug into these new requirements. I sent an email asking why Intro to Ethics doesn't fulfill an ethics course requirement and three days later it was changed on my transcript.


I should be getting my official evaluation in a few weeks(hopefully), I'll be sure to update once it comes through.

[Prloko]

I should be getting my official evaluation in a few weeks(hopefully), I'll be sure to update once it comes through.

Please do so, this will clear a lot of confusion for many of us.

[ironheadjack]

Please do so, this will clear a lot of confusion for many of us.

And it is confirmed. Just got my evaluation from TESC.

Courses in question Straighterline Anthropology and Intro to Religions, the ethics course I took at CC:

B: Responsibility (Completed)
> Complete 9 semester hours (SH) in Personal and Social
> Responsibility coursework to include:
> *Diversity or Global Literacy, 3SH
> *Responsible Ethical Leadership, 3SH
> *Elective, 3SH
Semester Hours Completed: 9.00
Diversity or Global Literacy (Completed)
Src Course # Title S.H. Grd TESC # Notes
1.. ANT-150... Cultural Anthropology I.. 3.00 CR ANT-150 *NE
Responsible Ethical Leadership (Completed)
Src Course # Title S.H. Grd TESC # Notes
3.. PHR102 Contemp Moral Issues..... 3.00 B PHI-180 *CC *TE
Personal and Social Responsibility Elective (Completed)
Src Course # Title S.H. Grd TESC # Notes
1.. REL-405... World Religions.......... 3.00 CR REL-405 *NE

[ejcompere]

Here's my eval listing. Some of these are still "Planned" meaning I havnt actually done them yet, but they were confirmed as fitting in. So my understanding if that TESC cannot back down on that once they are in the eval (at least for me). But I think what I have in here should work for others too. First is a CLEP, other two are DSST and Excelsior Exam (dont remember right now which is which).

Diversity or Global Literacy (Completed)
Src Course # Title S.H. Grd TESC # Notes
4.. SOC-101... Introduction to Sociology 3.00 CR SOC-101 *NE

Responsible Ethical Leadership (Pending)
Src Course # Title S.H. Grd TESC # Notes
4.. PHI-287 Ethics in America........ (3.00) --- PHI-287 *PL *TE

Personal and Social Responsibility Elective (Pending)
Src Course # Title S.H. Grd TESC # Notes
4.. PHI-384 Ethics & Business Profess (3.00) --- PHI-384 *PL *TE

[Prloko]

Here's my eval listing. Some of these are still "Planned" meaning I havnt actually done them yet, but they were confirmed as fitting in. So my understanding if that TESC cannot back down on that once they are in the eval (at least for me). But I think what I have in here should work for others too. First is a CLEP, other two are DSST and Excelsior Exam (dont remember right now which is which).

Diversity or Global Literacy (Completed)
Src Course # Title S.H. Grd TESC # Notes
4.. SOC-101... Introduction to Sociology 3.00 CR SOC-101 *NE

Responsible Ethical Leadership (Pending)
Src Course # Title S.H. Grd TESC # Notes
4.. PHI-287 Ethics in America........ (3.00) --- PHI-287 *PL *TE

Personal and Social Responsibility Elective (Pending)
Src Course # Title S.H. Grd TESC # Notes
4.. PHI-384 Ethics & Business Profess (3.00) --- PHI-384 *PL *TE

Are you using DSST Busines Ethics? Or are you going to take the actual course.