B.S. Organizational Leadership Degree Question

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Hello again.

I have been sitting here reading you guys posts and something occurred to me. I was talking to my stepmother last Thanksgiving about my degree options. I told her that I really wasn't sure what I really wanted to do but I just want a degree. She suggested that I major in Communications. I do enjoy writing and speaking and I believe I do both moderately well so I looked into it on TESC's website.

I know I was looking into the B.S. Organizational Leadership degree but now Communications doesn't sound to bad! I have provided the link below because I will need some assistance from you guys after you have perused the requirements.

Thomas Edison State College | BA in Communications Credit Distribution

It looks to me like the pro's are, I don't have to take Statistics or Precal to meet the math requirements, plus I can use 27 FEMA credits for the Free Electives category. I already have taken 25 FEMA's, I would just need to do 2 more. So once I do the other 2 FEMA's that would put me in total credits at 45 (27 FEMA + 18 CLEP Credits.)

The only downside I see at the moment is that I would need 33 credits to meet the Communications requirement. I browsed through the list and the only 2 courses I saw that I know I can "test out" of is Public Speaking and Technical Writing. Which would still leave me having to take 7-9 classes. The same exact number of classes I need anyway for the Business Administration degree!!!

I'm seriously contemplating the Communications degree for I can take the rest of the courses at my local cc to meet those requirements. What do you guys think?

Look forward to hearing from ya.

Peace be with you always.

From a loyal degree seeker,

Marshall

LOL I think this is the fun part! It's the dreaming part, so enjoy it. You really need to just make one decision first: business or not business. There is not a ton of overlap, so after that one decision, your much closer.

When I looked into sociology, I considered it as a major...but I also liked psychology. I hated to end up with such a specific major since I knew I wanted to study gastronomy in my master's degree, and felt that I needed a little bit of a lot of different subjects. What to do? Well, TESC has the majors, you have discovered them already. They also have liberal arts. For me, I felt that it was to generic. (that's just me) I liked their third option, which is an area of concentration. There are three choices: Humanities, Social Science, or Natural Science and Math. So, within the title of social sciences, I could take ANY social sciences for that concentration. This allows you to mix in a bit of psych, soc, anthro, govt., history, etc. in any ratio* as long as you pull in 3 different subjects. So, if I take a bunch of psych classes and then decide I am interested in more anthropology instead- it still fits. It's kind of like a liberal arts path for people who tend to like one area better than others. This is a very test-friendly option.

So, let's say you like communication. Rather than being a communication major, you could complete an area of concentration in humanities. THEN, you can choose any combination of classes/tests from ALL of these areas. In addition to your local communication classes, you could add in the CLEP literature exams (18 credits) and even the DSST art and religion tests too. If you have even the tiniest hint of foreign language ability, you can clear out the rest of your major in huge credits that way. So, with a humanities major, ANY art classes, ANY communication classes, ANY English classes, ANY writing classes, ANY literature classes, etc. will work. Much nicer than being told specifically WHICH communication classes to take. Plus, you get to use 27 FEMA since it is in the BA track.

Humanities
• Art
• Communication
• English
• Foreign Language
• Journalism
• Music
• Philosophy
• Photography
• Religion
• Theater Arts

*always check with your advisor