Help...Employer says I must have a degree completed by 8/15

[alleycat]

I have been lurking for years but finally registered. My employer has informed me that I must have a degree completed by August 15th to keep my job. I am now rushing to find the best option to do this. I think a BA in liberal studies may work from TESC. It looks like I may be a little short and some of the classes may not fit where I put them. I would really appreciate any input on if something is out of place, how to complete in time and is there a better degree option for me.

TESC BA in Liberal Studies
General Ed – 60 Credits

English Comp – 6 Credits
• Eng 100 – 1 credit – Fundamentals of English - Indiana State
• Eng 101 – 2 credits – Fundamentals of English - Indiana State
• Eng 105 – 3 credits – Freshman Writing - Indiana State

Humanities - 12 Credits
• Mus 106 – 3credits - Art of Rock Music – Umass
• Com 105 - 3credits - History of speech & decision making – Indiana State
• Mus 125 - 3credits – Jazz: Listener Guide – Umass
• TAR 101 – 3 credits – Theatre Workshop II – Umass

Social Science – 12 Credits
• Com 101 – 3 credits – Intro to speech communications – Indiana State
• Geo 111 - 3credits – Man’s physical environment (Geogrophy) – Indiana State
• Com 102 – 3 credits – Communication theory – Indiana State
• HPER F255 – 3 credits - Human Sexuality – Indiana University

Natural Sciences and Mathematics – 12 credits
• Phys 101 - 3credits – Intro to physical science – Indiana State
• Lifs 112 - 3credits – Human Aspects of Biology – Indiana State
• Mmt 110 - 3credits – Environmental science & business - UMass
• Math class needed

General Education Electives – 18 credits
• Geo 113 – 3 credits – Intro to earth & sky science – Indiana State
• Coun 135 – 2 credits – Career & Life planning – Indiana State
• RLS 160 – 3 credits – Leisure & Society – Indiana State
• Need 10 hours

Liberal Studies – 33 credits
• Libs 306 - 2 credits – Libraries & their use – Indiana State
• Eng 330N - 3 credits – American Litature & Film I – Indiana State
• Coun 317 - 2 credits – Student Leadership Education – Indiana State
• BUS R300 - 3 credits – Principles in real estate – Indiana University
• BUS Z302 - 3 credits – Managing & behavior in organizations – Indiana Univ
• Edu 409 - 3 credits – Sociology of education - UMass
• Edu 451 - 3 credits – Contemporary topics: multicultural education - UMass
• Edu 350 - 3 credits – Educational research - UMass
• Edu 205 - 3 credits – Human development & learning - UMass
• Com 261 - 3 credits – Small group communications - Indiana State
• Hlth 111 - 3 credits – Personal health & behavior - Indiana State
• Hper A361 - 2 credits – Coaching of football – Indiana University

Free Electives – 27 credits
• Completed with FEMA courses

Unused classes
• PE 137 - 1credit – Racquetball – Indiana State
• PE 155 - 1credit – Softball – Indiana State
• PE 133 - 1credit – Bowling – Indiana State
• PE 103 - 1credit – Jogging & fitness walking – Indiana State
• PE 104 - 1 credit – Weight training – Indiana State
• RLS 124 - 1 credit – Basic sailing – Indiana State

Wow you have alot going on. They will not take your Health, Business (not the real estate credit, they will probably tranfer the other business credit as Org Behavior) , Education, HPER, or Library credits in your area of Liberal Studies. Those will go under free electives. Same goes for your Gen Ed's they will not take the aboved mentioned for those either. PE credits could go under Gen Ed's. I only see three courses in the area of study that will probably come in. Don't take my complete word for it have an eval done and that take 4 to 6 weeks.

You still have alot to do. You will have to start testing right away. Now the problem is going to be for Sept graduation you have to have everything in by July 1. You probably will not be able to make that. The next graduation would be Dec 1. Everything needs to be in by Oct 1.

Math can be done with Aleks. If you are fairly good at math then you could do Aleks Interm Alg, Alg, and what ever other math classes you can manage. My son did 3 in less then a month.

For upper level classes in your area you will need 18 credits, 9 credits in 200 and 6 credits in 100. You have a possible 6 credits done in upper level which leaves you 12 more. DSST Substance Abuse will fit, DSST Business Ethics, DSST World Religion and one other upper level history exam or upper level social science.

9 credits in 200 or above could be A&I lit for 6 credits and DSST Tech
Writing for 3 credits. 6 credits in 100 can be anything that is a math, natural science, art, humanities, lit, or social science.

You are looking pretty good in your general electives. It is really just your area of study.