COSC BS in General Studies with Business Concentration

[KayV]

Who knew that Charter Oak accepts CLEP College Math to fulfill their math requirement? Not me, until I called to confirm this morning. : )

Since we have had a few people wondering about COSC's Business concentration, I thought I would post this for general information. COSC requires 12 more upper level credits than TESC, and also requires 2 courses you must take with them (Cornerstone and Capstone). They also require speech and two science courses, one with with lab. You can still use "raw" FEMA credits at this writing to fill up the free electives, though, unlike TESC; however, since you also have to earn 60 liberal arts credits for a BS, that only leaves a spot for 4 FEMA hours.

Also, many thanks to Burbuja0512, whose excellent plan I modified to update with the current general education requirements and current upper level offerings from TECEPs, now that several DSSTs have been retired.

Charter Oak State College
Bachelor of Science in General Studies
Business Concentration

I. General Education Requirements 47
1. CLEP College Composition 6
2. DSST/SL Principles of Public Speaking 3
3. CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 6
4. CLEP/ SL Intro to Sociology 3
5. DSST Business Ethics and Society 3UL
6. CLEP American History I or II or American Government 3
7. DSST Human Cultural Geography 3
8. CLEP College Mathematics 6 (yes, I called to verify this on 12/30/14)
9. DSST/SL Environment or Nutrition 3
10. SL Science with Lab 4
11. COSC IDS-101 Cornerstone 3
II. Area of Concentration: Business 42
12. DSST/SL Principles of Financial Accounting 3
13. DSST/SL Principles of Financial Accounting 3
14. SL Principles of Managerial Accounting 3
15. DSST Principles of Finance 3
16. DSST Management Information Systems 3
17. DSST Organizational Behavior 3
18. CLEP Principles of Management 3
19. CLEP Principles of Marketing 3
20. COSC MGT-499 Strategic Processes Capstone Course 3UL
21. (DSST Business Ethics and Society from above 3UL)
22. TECEP Business in Society 3UL
23. TECEP Advertising 3UL
24. TECEP Marketing Communications 3UL
25. CLEP Macroeconomics 3
26. CLEP Microeconomics 3
III. Upper Level Credits 15
27. DSST Cybersecurity 3UL
28. DSST Substance Abuse 3UL
29. TECEP Managerial Communications 3UL
30. TECEP Operations Management 3UL
31. TECEP Negotiations and Conflict Management 3UL
IV. Free Electives 16
32. Liberal Arts electives 12
33. FEMA 4

[topdog98]

I was able to utilize 26 FEMA credits in the plan below. You can do this by doubling up on some requirements. For example, Sociology is not needed because Macroeconomics counts as a social science in general education and for a business pre-req. US history can be replaced with The Civil War DSST which is upper level. Organizational Behavior is best taken as the Uexcel because it is upper level. Etc.


Plan for BS with a concentration in Business Administration at COSC:
Requirements: 120 credits (CR) 60 liberal arts (LA) 30 upper level (UL) 15 business upper level (BUL)

General Education:
College Comp. CLEP 6CR 6LA
Public Speaking DSST 3CR 3LA
Business Ethics DSST 3CR 3LA 3UL 3BUL
Civil War DSST 3CR 3LA 3UL
Soviet Union DSST 3CR 3LA 3UL
Analyzing Int. Lit CLEP 6CR 6LA
Macroeconomics CLEP 3CR 3LA
College Algebra ALEKS 3CR 3LA
Natural Sciences CLEP 6CR 6LA
Science Lab 1CR 1LA

Business Administration Concentration:
Financial Acc. CLEP/DSST 3CR
Managerial Acc. Uexcel 3CR
Finance DSST 3CR
Information Sys CLEP/DSST 3CR
Org. Behavior Uexcel 3CR 3LA 3UL 3BUL
Management CLEP 3CR
Marketing CLEP 3CR
Capstone COSC 3CR 3UL 3BUL
UL Business Elective 3CR 3UL 3BUL
UL Business Elective 3CR 3UL 3BUL
UL Business Elective 3CR 3UL 3BUL
Microeconomics CLEP 3CR 3LA

UL Liberal Art Elective 3CR 3LA 3UL
UL Liberal Art Elective 3CR 3LA 3UL
Beg. Algebra ALEKS 3CR 3LA
Int. Algebra ALEKS 3CR 3LA
Trig ALEKS 3CR 3LA
Stats ALEKS 3CR 3LA
Cornerstone COSC 3CR
FEMA 26 CR

Total 120CR 61LA 30UL 18BUL

[KayV]

Sweet! Thanks Topdog. Some of those tests are being retired, but this is great.

[topdog98]

Sweet! Thanks Topdog. Some of those tests are being retired, but this is great.

To my knowledge, I don't think any of these are being retired. If you scroll down, the ones being retired are marked with notes in red here:Test Preparation | DSST | Get College Credit

I know that some of these tests have been/are being refreshed. If you have information that some of these listed are discontinued, please let me know which ones. Thanks!