BA Psych TESC Roadmap- Bring on the suggestions!

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Welcome! Just a few months ago I was new to this, too, and now have 15+ tests under my belt - you'll be amazed how quickly it goes once you get into the swing of testing out of classes!

A couple of suggestions:

For English, you could take the CLEP English Comp w/ Essay, and knock out your GenEd English requirement.

For Humanities, instead of American Lit (which takes a good bit of study) you could take the CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature, which takes almost no study - just spend a day or so reviewing literary terms and styles, and review MLA formating for research papers (i.e., parenthetical references, works cited, bibliography, etc.) and you'd be good to go for 6 credits in Humanities.

For Social Science, you probably don't want to take CLEP Psych 211 Human Growth & Development if you're putting DSST Psych 211 Lifespan Development in your major, because they're considered duplicates and TESC will only give you credit for one of them. Instead, you might want to consider DSST Anthropology - Anthro makes a nice complement to Psych and Soc. Alternatively, there are lots of CLEPs and DSSTs in the Social Sciences to choose from.

For Experimental Psych, you could choose either the ECE or the TECEP Research Methods in Experimental Psych. If you don't already have Statistics, you could go with ALEKS Intro to Statistics. You likely already know that there's a CLEP for Educational Psych, and then all of the other required Psych electives can be done via TECEPs and/or ECE's.

Welcome again - this is a wonderful, invigorating adventure we're all on, each of us chasing our coveted 'piece of paper' in a non-traditional, 'get it done the fastest & smartest', 21st century kind of way!

- Lia