Plan and Costs for Associate in Science Degree at Excelsior College

[NAP]

For this Associate Degree template, I used the Bachelor’s degree template made for you by Alissa: http://www.degreeforum.net/general-educa...#post74710

Associate in Science at Excelsior College – 60 credits

General Education for AS – 9 credits in two areas and 6 credits in one area

Humanities - DONE
eng comp 2
spa 1103 spanish 1
phi 1113 intro to philosophy

Social Sciences/History - DONE
pos 1113 american fed gov't
soc 1113 intro to sociology
his 1493 american history civil war era - ore

Math/Natural Science – NEED 3 credits
bio 2123 human ecology

Written English Requirement – 3 credits - DONE
eng 1113 freshman comp 1

Information Literacy – 1 credit - NEED

Arts and Sciences – 3 credits - NEED

Arts and Sciences/Applied Professional – 29 credits - NEED

An optional Area of Focus is awarded with 15 credits in a single discipline.

It appears that you have all of your General Education credits completed except for 3 more needed in the Natural Science/Math category. (This would be a good place to get the math credits you will need for the Bachelor’s degree.)

Then you need 3 credits in Art & Sciences (same categories as Gen Ed) and 29 credits in Arts & Sciences or Applied Professional (free electives), plus Information Literacy to complete an Associate in Science Degree.

If you are interested in an Associate in Arts, this would be a little different since more Arts & Sciences are required.

The degrees have been designed so that all of the credits used for the Associate degree can be used toward a Bachelor’s degree.

It is my understanding that Psychology and History majors can be completed mostly through exams.

I am not sure how much of a Literature major can be completed through exams, but I think there are lots of correspondence courses available. (The Literature GRE did not duplicate the A&I Lit CLEP for Ruddigore. That could mean that you could take the A&I Lit exam for credit, even if you are going for the Literature major at EC.)

I think that TESC offers a degree in Social Science, but I do not think EC offers one.

I am not sure if your American History course for the Civil War Era will duplicate the US History I CLEP for 1500 through Reconstruction.

Since we do not know what is happening with the GRE policy, keep an eye on that thread for new announcements. There may be a way for those of us who would still like to take that exam for credit to be able to do so.

I hope this helps!