Financial Aid?

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Are you feeling lucky? I sure am.  I would show the academic advising person you usually speak with their website link: https://www.tesu.edu/watson/bs/homeland-security as it only mentions in the B. Civic & Global Learning field, "Diversity, Ethics, Civic Engagement".  It's not like the Info Lit where it specifically lists SOS-110.  

Further to that, I would get them to view TESU Gen Ed Jan 2019 or later: https://www.tesu.edu/academics/courses/2019-and-after and show them the "options" under Diversity.  If you have Intro to Sociology and American Gov, then you can still ask if say World Religions will be accepted.  I would even go beyond and ask to see if it can be escalated up the chain,iIt's worth a shot at least...

And since you're debating on just taking the bare 18 credits OR the comp tuition... do you feel like "learning more?"  
For Study.com members, it's 18 x $375 which is $6750 - you can use the remainder of the $ for a Masters.
For Study.com Comp Tuition, it's $7519 for up to 36 credits - you can also use the remainder for a Masters.

If you are into learning, then I would pony up the $769 for X amount of courses.  One course and you get your $'s worth, if you do more, well - you obviously get more worth!  My advice, you can get the AAS ESST by taking the Associate Capstone the requirements are met with basic science/law/etc courses.  In fact, here's how I would do it...

1) Term 1: Take SOS-110 and the Associate Capstone APS-295.
2) Term 2: Take any two of four Homeland Security & Emergency Management courses
3) Term 3: Take remaining two Homeland Security & Emergency Management courses
4) Term 4: Take the Homeland Security & Emergency Management Capstone

In the event you have to take the SOC-322 course you can try to see if you can take it in Term 1.
If I was in your shoes, that is what I would be doing... the Capstone should be done by itself.

While it isn't listed specifically on that page, in the course catalog, it's definitely specified. 

https://campussuite-storage.s3.amazonaws...log-ug.pdf 

Page 136. 

It also specifies "Research Methods in Social Sciences" which everyone has said is available at SDC but I literally can only find Research Methods in Psychology and Research Methods in Criminal Justice. I don't know if either of those would transfer in and the CJ one has several 3k+ papers. 

My only worry is being able to handle the coursework since all the reviews make it sound like it's too much to do more than 2 courses at a time. 

How does that work with the capstone? Everyone recommends doing the capstone by itself but then you fall below the 6 credit minimum for financial aid? 

I was so nervous to start and then I got into the swing of things and racked up 66 credits in like 6-7 weeks. Now I feel like I'm totally starting over and I don't know where to begin. I was planning on filling most of my free electives with criminal justice courses since they're easy and instead of binge watching law and order or NCIS, I just plan to do the coursework instead. haha!