Course Equivancelies

[Library2HospitalChaplain]

I am closing in on the completion of my BALS (General Management) at TESU and was curious if I might be able to get some assistance in finding out if the below courses have an equivalency at any of the online providers (study.com, coopersmith, sophia.com, etc.).  If I keep the GM focus I will receive 94 of my 95 credits I have already achieved going in to TESU.  If I drop the focus and continue with just a BALS I will only receive 90 of my 95 previously completed credits.  Would love to take advantage of the extra credits if possible.  Thanks so much for the help and insight!

TESU Course:

MAN 210 Principles of Management - available via Study.com, Sophia (UL), CLEP, Coopersmith
MAN 415 Change Management [b]- NOPE[/b]
NEG 401 Negotiations and Conflict Management [b]- available via Study.com[/b]
PSY 360 Orginizational Theory [b]- available via Study.com[/b]
PSY 363 Industrial Psychology [b]- available via Study.com (as LL)[/b]
MAN 373 Managerial Communications [b]- available via Study.com (UL)[/b]

You can substitute UL/LL, as long as you have the correct number of UL credits in the AoS.  The main issue with this one is that you can't take Change Management anywhere inexpensively via alt-credit.  So, if you are going to take the 16cr single term at TESU using the FT/FR enrollment, then this is not a great option.

I don't know which course you have that will work with this, so I can't give you more info: but there is an undergrad cert in Organizational Leadership that is available via alt-credit.  Only 6cr of it will work in the BALS though.

This is awesome!  Thank you for the feedback.  I am having to take cornerstone and capstone at TESU so may have to bite the bullet and add one more course (MAN 415) to the full price list.  I have reached out to advising to see if any other options exist that would help me mitigate cost for that course.  I will keep the forum informed if I hear of anything.

You are paying a lot to make it so that you have 4cr more - I wouldn't advise that, as I don't think it's worth $1600.  That is a LOT of money when you can just take an extra Sophia course or CLEP for free or a Saylor exam for $5.

Here are your 2 options at TESU (not counting the app fee or grad fee since those are the same for everything):

Per-Credit tuition plan
Cornerstone $1,605
Capstone $1,605
Residency Waiver $3,288
Total $6,498

Adding the additional course would be $8,103

Full-time/Flat-rate tuition plan:
$4,778 for a single term (16cr to get rid of the Residency Waiver fee)

This would include the cornerstone, capstone, MAN-415: Change Management, 2 additional courses of your choice (e-Packs are the favored choice), and PLA-100 (1cr).

To add onto dfrecore's last line:

You can take Industrial Psychology as an e-Pack PSY-363-EP and get UL credit for it, https://www2.tesu.edu/course.php?CourseCode=PSY-363&sem= 
I'd suggest any other 100 or 200 level e-Pack as your other e-Pack, which includes Principles of Management MAN-210-EP.

Negotiations and Conflict Management NEG-401-TE and Managerial Communications MAN-373-TE are available as TECEP exams. They don't count toward the must get 16 credits @TESU to avoid the waiver, but they are another option. Because I had that old AS from TESU, I was looking at the General Management and a few other business certificates as I took my bachelor's degree.

I took the Medical Terminology course APS-100-OL as my single credit course instead of the PLA-100 course, but I plan on working in hospitals as a chaplain so I had some familiarity with both medical language, Latin, and Greek already.