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The Per Credit Tuition Plan lets you avoid the high enrollment fee under the Enrolled Options Plan. The caveat is that it has a 24-credit residency requirement for bachelors degrees. However, portfolio assessments and TECEPs are cheap ways of fulfilling the residency requirement. 24 credits from TECEPs will cost $888, and you get the bonus of filling in areas for which you would have used CLEP, DSST, or something else. The enrollment fee is $3,154 under the Enrolled Options Plan, and that doesn't cover any credits.

As of now, there aren't enough tests to complete the history area of study. So, yes, you do have to take at least one course or submit a portfolio assessment. I recommend completing one of Saylor's free courses and using it to develop a portfolio. It's a lot cheaper than taking an UL course just about anywhere.
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Ok that helps me out a lot! I put together a degree plan that includes 24 TECEP credits based on that information. Does this look like it would work? I can't tell which courses/tests would be redundant.

1 course (3 credits) - Responsible Ethical Leadership
TECEP Environmental Ethics

3 courses (9 credits) - General Education Electives
TECEP Introduction to News Reporting
TECEP Technical Writing
TECEP Introduction to Political Science

1 course - HIS-101 (3 credits) - Western or World Civ
CLEP Western Civi. I

2 courses - HIS-113/114 (6 credits) - American History
CLEP American History I
CLEP American History II

1 course (3 credits) - Non-Western/Non-US History
DSST Introduction to the ME (UL)

5 courses (15 credits) - History Electives
DSST Civil War & Reconstruction
DSST Rise & Fall of the Soviet Union (UL)
DSST History of the Vietnam War (UL)
ECE World Conflicts Since 1900 (UL)
Saylor Greece, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire (UL)

1 course - LIB-495 (3 credits) - Liberal Arts Capstone (UL)

8 courses (24 credits) - Free Electives
TECEP World History from 1600 to Present
TECEP Public Relations Thought & Practice
TECEP Introduction to Comparative Politics
TECEP Computer Concepts and Applications
DSST Introduction to World Religions
DSST Human/Cultural Geography
DSST Western Europe Since 1945
CLEP American Government