WGU Teaching, English Education M.A. <- Need a plan to meet eligibility requirements

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Hello all, 

In the next few weeks, I'll be done with my AA from a local community college. I'm slated to start with my English teaching degree in January at the nearby state university. However, when I saw that the program would take a minimum of 2.5 additional years (likely 3), I got very discouraged. Thankfully, that disappointment led me here, where I've discovered all these options that I never knew existed.

Problem 1: I haven't found a self-paced, competency-based program for a bachelor's in teaching secondary English.  
But WGU offers it as a master's and so that's the goal; to maneuver myself into a position where I can begin with this program and do it as quickly as possible. 


To be eligible, the master's program requires a "content-related" graduate/undergraduate degree or any graduate/undergraduate degree with 24+ hours of "content-specific" coursework. 

Problem 2: I've spoken to an enrollment counselor at WGU and they said they don't publish the specific prerequisites but that when I send in my transcripts they would tell me what additional courses, if any, were still needed. That makes this a bit of a shot in the dark but I could either:

1.) > Complete a bachelor's wherever and in whatever major - one that I could zoom through the quickest (mostly just testing through courses?). >Then send my transcripts to WGU, > they would tell me what I still needed, > then I would take those classes. 

Or

2.) Go for the Bachelor of Liberal Studies - Educational Studies Minor at UMPI. This degree has a lot of electives and I could fill those up with English/Lit courses. The thing about this route is that I don't want to take more Eng/Lit courses than I have to. Those classes take longer to complete than others that could just be tested through (am I wrong about this?).

Here are the credits I will have going forward:
(Associate of Arts degree)

ENG-105 Composition I                       3
ENG-106 Composition II                      3
LIT-101 Intro to Literature                   3
EDU-246 Including Diverse Learners         3
EDU-920 Field Experience                        1
EDU-240 Educational Psychology              3
PSY-121 Developmental Psychology          3
PEH-111 Personal Wellness                      3
SOC-205 Diversity in America                   3
SPC-101 Fundamentals of Oral Comm       3
SDV-108 The College Experience              1
POL-111 American National Government    3
HIS-117 Western Civ I-Ancient & Med       3
ENV-116 Environmental Science Lab         1
PHI-101 Introduction to Philosophy          3
ENV-115 Environmental Science               3
GEO-121 World Regional Geography         3
MAT-110 Math for Liberal Arts                  3
BIO-154 Human Biology                          3
CLS-164 Japanese History and Culture      3
SOC-110 Intro to Sociology                      3
ECN-120 Principles of Macroeconomics      3
AGH-221 Principles of Horticulture            4



 If anyone has any other suggestions I would love to hear them. Thank you for reading, this is an amazing community!