History and Proposed Schedule

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Sadly I did hear about the capstone requirement, adds another 1000USD to my total cost! Also not long ago the GRE Test credits were eliminated, man I wish I learnt about all this sooner

My credits were earned at UWO (great school in Canada, should have kept up with my studies, lol) and Athabasca. Athabasca already accepted my credits from UWO and have transferred them onto my transcript there, ie: assigned them other similar courses at their institution.

According to Excelsior's website, Athabasca is listed as an international institution they directly accept transcripts from.

http://www.excelsior.edu/c/document_libr...upId=78666

If I do Liberal Studies, do I still need to have a concentration? I can show you a list of the courses I did at my brick'n'mortar Universities to give you a better idea:
(note: In Canada, first year courses are listed as 0XX, second/third as 1XX and 2XX, fourth as 3XX, and honours as 4XX)

From UWO: Transferred

Calculus 050A L
Calculus 081B L
Computer Science 026A L
Computer Science 027A L
Philosophy 020* L
Physics 020* L
Psychology 020* L
Computer Science 211A U
Statistics 222A L
Writing 101F L
Philosophy 142E* U
Astronomy 121B L
Math 222A U
Math 223B U

Stars denote 6 credit courses, all others are 3 credits

At Athabasca:

Political Economy 230 L
History 307 U
Nutrition for Health 331 U


In total that's 63 Credits
42 Lower Level
21 Upper Level

(I know the 100/200 thing gets very confusing, in that some are upper and lower, but this is how my university (athabasca) evaluates them)

Essentially I need 57 More Credits, my background is quite wide and it seems to fulfill most of the requirements, right? Do I need to do a concentration, as you guys mentioned?

Description of Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies from Excelsior:

Minimum of 120 semester hours. Within that total, at least 60 semester hours must be earned in the arts and sciences with at least 21 of those 60 semester hours earned at the upper or advanced level. The remaining 60 semester hours, of which at least 9 must be earned at the upper or advanced level, may be earned in applied professional courses, additional arts and science courses, or a combination of both.

So, more or less, it's 90 Lower Level and 30 Upper Level Credits.

And that means I'd need 48 lower Level and 9 Upper Level

The Lower Level I'm considering doing:

American Literature CLEP*
Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEP*
College Composition CLEP* (if they accept it now for credit)
English Literature CLEP*
Humanities CLEP*
French CLEP* (haha i'm near fluent in French already)
College Math CLEP* (i'm worried this might overlap what I've already studied in math...I've done Calculus (1 and 2), and Discrete Structures (it's a special math for Computer Programmers)

For the Upper Level I'm considering:

ECE American Dream (it sounds rough, but I'm quite used to essay exams by now, hell at least I can TYPE the essay, in school I'd be writing on that goddamn yellow paper with a semi-broken wrist by the end!)

The last one I guess I can make my capstone course, do you guys know which course that would be for Liberal Studies?


**Edit: ECE Literacy Instruction in the Elementary School is considered Upper Level and Education (I wonder if teacher's college would accept credit for this, or it could also count as an English credit)

Anyways I wanted to do a Major in English or in Math, but it seems impossible to do through tests, a Liberal Studies should be good enough for me.

As I understand, for most teacher's colleges, if you want to teach secondary, you need 30 Credits in one Subject (English) and 18 in another (Math), but it doesn't seem to matter what level they are.

I know I wrote a whole essay here (see, I kinda like them) but I hope you guys can help, any opinions/feedback would be really greatly appreciated!