Locking in a degree plan at TESU?

[bjcheung77]

Question: So, it would be possible to apply know, enroll in a class upon getting accepted, and transfer them all of my completed courses from Sophia before July 31st and I would be in the clear for all of those at least?

Answer: Setup an ACE registry account, Apply to TESU $50, enroll by taking the Medical Terminology TECEP ($50, you don't have to pass the exam to be enrolled and locking your catalog year), complete your courses at Sophia (sign up by July 31, not finish the course by then), lastly transfer them to TESU when you're done with Sophia.

1.) I think I will be making the Ethics switch, considering the Institutes ethics course apparently no longer qualifies according to an individual in a different thread. With that, since I will need to fill one more elective slot due to the switch, do you know if TESU would accept the college readiness course from Sophia (or any other Sophia course) as an elective that I do not already have listed?

Answer #1) I answered that here, they'll move your Sophia Ethics into the Institutes Ethics area: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid305332 But you still have an issue with your degree plan, you have Sociology showing up twice. Change the second one to Sophia Art History II and you're done.

2.) I will certainly keep Saylor and Davar in mind, but personally I feel I would do better taking a course, rather than testing out of a course.

Answer #2) I agree, take the courses over exams if you're feeling that way. Further to that, take ACE credits over NCCRS as NCCRS is less accepted and doesn't have a registry to bank the courses - COSC seems to have stopped accepting some of the NCCRS providers and I think Excelsior/TESU is going to follow.

3.) Is the one credit cornerstone not required in the elective section? I only have it there due to other templates I have seen that also have it. Also, upon reviewing my electives, it looks like I will only need 6x three credit electives, so I should be able to just switch the ethics courses, and do not need to add an additional GE elective to fill that slot. Does that sound correct?

Answer #3) Yes that is correct, the 1 credit cornerstone, in 2018 didn't have it, was only an option for the 2019 catalog, 2020 is now the 3 credit course - this is the significance of "locking" a catalog, as requirements change - see below. Yes, the Sophia Ethics will go properly into the required ethics field and you have 6 gen eds already.

4.) I have been having difficulty finding one more finance course to take to fill that slot. Do you have any suggestions for an additional course that would fill that slot? I have just left it blank while I fill out my GE stuff, and have a plan in General Management as a backup if I think it would be worth switching.

Answer #4) I type slow, so the post of a post of a post in #1 pointed to three possibilities. 1) Take it at community college or do the DSST at an exam center 2) Take an upper level Principles of Finance course (from an ACE/NCCRS provider) or 3) Email TESU and see if Study.com Health Finance & Budgeting will do the job. Your best bet is to do either 2 or 3 as #1 will take longer to complete.

"General Management": You created another thread with both a Fiance/GM template (https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...quirements), I purposely didn't answer the bottom part of that thread until now because, like Accounting, Fiance is a "hard to grasp" area of study. Testing out is fine, but you'll hardly learn the full scope of it in such a short time.

So, I advise and agree to your post in having a GM as the main plan and Finance as the fall back plan, as you get closer to the final courses, you can decide to do either one or both. They are both BSBA with a different concentration, yet it's still just a Business Administration degree. The reason is because once you start on a few Finance courses, it'll be the one that truly weeds out the Fiance Folks from the GM Folks.

"Locking a catalog". Think of this as a membership to a gym, it's only good for one year. You need to pay for another membership the next year to retain your membership rights. Locking the catalog is the same, you take an exam or a course to continue your enrollment. The enrollment entitles you to whatever the catalog year holds, if the year lapses and you miss the enrollment period, you're now on a new catalog year with different course requirements for your degree, example above, the cornerstone.

My feedback in regards to Accounting: Taking the course at Sophia.org would be sufficient enough, Onlinedegree.com would be a duplicate. If you were going for an Applied degree with a focus in Accounting, then knowing your basics better would be recommended. My post about applied degrees: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...rs-Degrees

Natshar has completed her associates and on track to finishing her bachelors, she wants to learn more about Accounting and I would recommend taking both for her. But in your case, it's different as your main goal is the degree not to duplicate your learning. My post: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...Accounting

What I propose is this: Since you're taking Accounting at Sophia.org, instead of doing the same course at Onlinedegree.com, take a different accounting course from StraighterLine or Study.com, in fact, take two. And here is my reasoning, it'll help you finish your BSBA with a GM in addition to your Finance if you choose PLUS hit the Accounting area if you needed.

Your GM courses and your Finance courses have 3 that overlap, 3 courses are the only difference as they only allow a max of 9 credits to overlap the two areas of study. These are the courses you need for your GM - 3 UL Finance, the LL Sophia.org Project Management course, StraighterLine or Study.com Intermediate Accounting I (LL) & Cost Accounting (UL). In fact, it's just two additional courses as Project Management is a given. Just those two courses or two in another Marketing or Management (1 UL/1LL and that's it).