Thomas Edison Free Electives

[kimberose]

Okay, not to sound stupid, but how do I fulfill my TESC free electives requirements? I am majoring in music. I noticed some of you mentioned taking "FEMA" and using that towards your free electives.

What exactly do I put in my free electives. Can that just be CLEPs or DSST, should it be stuff regarding music, like music electives, or what?

Kimberly

[kimberose]

p.s. I'm not enrolled in TESC yet, just taking my CLEPs for general ed requirements.

[cookderosa]

Okay, not to sound stupid, but how do I fulfill my TESC free electives requirements? I am majoring in music. I noticed some of you mentioned taking "FEMA" and using that towards your free electives.

What exactly do I put in my free electives. Can that just be CLEPs or DSST, should it be stuff regarding music, like music electives, or what?

Kimberly

Free electives are credits in any subject that you want. Here's a rough run down of how credits work.

Generally speaking, you have 2 types of credit- your general education credits and your major. In general education credit, everyone has to take these. This is your English and math, etc. How many and which ones you have to take vary a little from degree to degree, but they are spelled out on your credit distribution sheet for BA Music. In a general education credit, if you fill it and then OVERFILL it, it overflows into general education ELECTIVE credit. So, if you take extra history courses, these overflow into gen ed electives.

Next is your major. Refer to the exact requirements on your credit distribution sheet. Extra credits in your major sometimes go into general education electives (if your major is a humanity - like music- a math, a science, or a social science).

Now the bottom rung is free electives. Anything from gen ed can trickle down into free electives, and any extra major credit can trickle down into free electives. SOMETIMES a credit is neither in your major or a general education credit, and those are automatically designated into free electives- they never move "up" into anything. Credit like business for a non business major, trade occupation credit, or FEMA go here.

FEMA costs nothing- it's 100% free. Free to take, free to transfer in, that's why people here use it. For music majors, all FEMA credit is only free electives, so once you cap out you're full. In other words, you can't rack up 50 FEMA credits. Find out how many slots you have open (27 if you're starting from scratch) and you can fill those with FEMA. If you have some credit already, you may not have that many slots- find out first before earning credit you can't use.


Hope that helps get you started!

[kimberose]

Thankyou so so much! I was only planning to take CLEPs/ DSSTs enough for my general ed, so I should have all 27 credits open for FEMA. Could you send me the link for FEMA so I can find out more about it?

[rebel100]

Emergency Management Institute - FEMA Independent Study Program