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TESU - Study.com upper level classes - PPR - 07-01-2025
With advice I got from this board, my teenager is going to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from TESU, as his fastest path to graduation. He only lacks 4 upper level classes to take before applying. I am trying to determine what study.com courses TESU would consider to meet the UL BALS needs. Do the criminal justice courses count? What about anything in the healthcare management courses? Otherwise, he will be taking the history, psychology, and sociology classes. He would really like to do one of the criminal justice upper levels if it counts, so I appreciate if anyone has any insight.
RE: TEMU - Study.com upper level classes - Jonathan Whatley - 07-01-2025
Study.com maintains a list of how their courses are expected to transfer to TESU here:
https://study.com/college/school/thomas-edison-state-university.html
There’s a search box underneath the heading “Find your courses.”
RE: TEMU - Study.com upper level classes - PPR - 07-01-2025
(07-01-2025, 02:20 PM)Jonathan Whatley Wrote: Study.com maintains a list of how their courses are expected to transfer to TESU here:
https://study.com/college/school/thomas-edison-state-university.html
There’s a search box underneath the heading “Find your courses.”
Thank you. I have looked at that but I guess I am pretty obtuse. I cannot determine which of those approved courses are appropriate to meet the specific requirements for the upper level requirements of the specific Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies. For example, I have heard from others that the upper level business course would not satisfy that requirement. I hope my question makes sense.
RE: TESU - Study.com upper level classes - jg_nuy - 07-01-2025
Check the Upper Level section on the page below:
https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sample_TESU_BA_Liberal_Studies_Degree_Plan
RE: TESU - Study.com upper level classes - PPR - 07-01-2025
(07-01-2025, 03:14 PM)jg_nuy Wrote: Check the Upper Level section on the page below:
https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sample_TESU_BA_Liberal_Studies_Degree_Plan
Thank you! That is exactly what I needed.
RE: TESU - Study.com upper level classes - bjcheung77 - 07-01-2025
My suggestion is to a mix/match of alternative credits, what I mean by that is, you want to have a balanced trifecta set of certs, degree, experience, and using another trifecta of cost, ease, speed. Your final trifecta is to get the Associates/Bachelors combo, ROI/Value, customize or personalize the pathway.
Here's an example, you can add an associates or two, use a combo of Coursera to get UL credit (along with the respective professional certs), use Law Shelf (voice proctor, not video) to get GOV-202 Basics of Environmental Law transferred as ENS-360 Environ Sustainability & Social Justice as an additional option if you need more classes.
Here are some cheapies/freebies from Coursera and other providers such as Law Shelf: You can use ACE/NCCRS credits to max your transfer to TESU, you just need 30 RA credits total, and, if you want to skip the Edison Accelerate Fee, you need 15 residency credits. You can decide if you want to pay or take the classes from them. I suggest max the ACE/NCCRS credits first, you can go past 120+ credits, it's all personal preference.
Coursera: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Coursera
Cheapies/freebies: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Free_Sources_of_Credit
Law Shelf Transfers: https://www.lawshelf.com/partnersview
RE: TESU - Study.com upper level classes - PPR - 07-02-2025
I wasn't sure if I should continue this here or not, but I have made an outline of requirements for TESU BALS - non concentration and plugged in what courses my son has already taken. Since he was originally going down a business track, he has more electives than he needs. From what I can see, he needs one more UL AOS, and 5 more level 2000 classes in AOS. Plus the two TESU required courses. Would anyone look over this and see if I have missed anything or put a class where it doesn't belong?
General Education Requirements 45 Hours
A. Intellectual Practice and Skills (15 hours)
1. English Composition 101 ASU
2. English Composition 102 ASU
3. Intro to Human Communication ASU
4. Introduction to Information Technology SOPHIA
5. Calculus I SOPHIA
B. Civic and Global Leadership (9 hours)
1. Intro to Ethics SOPHIA
2. Intro to Sociology ASU
3. Bus. 302 – Foundations of Leadership STUDY
C. Knowledge of Human Culture (15 hours)
1. American History I SOPHIA
2. American History II SOPHIA
3. Business Ethics SOPHIA
4. Art I SOPHIA
5. Art II SOPHIA
D. Scientific Knowledge (6 hours)
1. Human Biology SOPHIA
2. Anatomy and Physiology I SOPHIA
Areas of Study (42 hours)
A. 15 Upper-Level Courses
1. Victimology STUDY
2. Sociology of Work STUDY
3. Psychology of Personality STUDY
4. Death Investigation TEEX (still need)
5. ?
B. Level 2000 Classes (21 hours)
1. Civil War and Reconstruction STUDY
2. Criminal Law STUDY
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
6. ?
7. ?
C. Level 1000 Classes (max 6 hours)
1. Lifespan Development SOPHIA
2. Ancient Greek Philosophy SOPHIA
Remaining
A. Electives (30 hours) -have 46 hours
1. Intro to Psychology ASU
2. Microeconomics SOPHIA
3. Macroeconomics SOPHIA
4. Financial Accounting SOPHIA
5. Business Law SOPHIA
6. Managerial Accounting SOPHIA
7. Principles of Finance SOPHIA
8. The Living World/Lab – 4 hrs ASU
9. Environmental Science SOPHIA
10. Introduction to Nutrition SOPHIA
11. Introduction to Meteorology STUDY
12. Introduction to Health and Wellness ASU
13. Project Management SOPHIA
14. Cloud Foundations ASU
15. Medical Terminology STUDY
B. TESU
1. SOS-110
2. LIB-4950 Cornerstone
RE: TESU - Study.com upper level classes - Jonathan Whatley - 07-02-2025
LIB-4950 Capstone counts as upper-level credit in the area of study, so you can move that up from the bottom to fill position A5 on your list.
Business Ethics comes to TESU as PHI-285, so if he could take an ethics course somewhere that would come in as at least 1000-level (e.g., Sophia Introduction to Ethics which comes in as PHI-180), he could place that new course into Civic and Global Leadership and bump Business Ethics into the AOS list B.
Would they accept BUS-302 Foundations of Leadership in the AOS? A few business courses that have enough social science content are so accepted. If it’s accepted in gen ed, that suggests a chance it’ll be accepted in Liberal Studies. If so you could bump that to the AOS and fill that spot in Civic and Global Leadership with an easier-to-find lower-level course.
RE: TESU - Study.com upper level classes - PPR - 07-02-2025
(07-02-2025, 03:18 PM)Jonathan Whatley Wrote: LIB-4950 Capstone counts as upper-level credit in the area of study, so you can move that up from the bottom to fill position A5 on your list.
Business Ethics comes to TESU as PHI-285, so if he could take an ethics course somewhere that would come in as at least 1000-level (e.g., Sophia Introduction to Ethics which comes in as PHI-180), he could place that new course into Civic and Global Leadership and bump Business Ethics into the AOS list B.
Would they accept BUS-302 Foundations of Leadership in the AOS? If so you could bump that there and fill that spot in Civic and Global Leadership with an easier-to-find lower-level course.
So helpful! Thank you. I had the Business Ethics from Sophia under the Knowledge of Human Culture GE section. If I move it to AOS, could I replace it with Intro to Psychology - moving that from Electives to the GE human culture requirement? I already have Intro to Ethics in the Civic Section.
I was wondering if Foundations of Leadership would work for AOS but I just can't figure if it does or not. That GE spot would be easy to replace.
RE: TESU - Study.com upper level classes - bjcheung77 - 07-02-2025
For your UL requirements, you want to make sure they're still UL, if I recall correctly, TEEX Death Investigation got downgraded by ACE, thus, do the LawShelf class I mentioned to take the place of it, or something similar from another ACE/NCCRS provider...