Exams to Complete Degree?

[creationstory]

I already received a reply:

Dear Alissa,

The following are all lower level exams:
DSST Environment & Humanity: The Race to save the Planet
DSST Intro. to World Religions
CLEP Calculus

Sincerely,

Jodi Bernstein
LA Advising Team

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Previous Message:
Are these exams lower level or upper level?

DSST Environment & Humanity: The Race to save the Planet
DSST Intro. to World Religions
CLEP Calculus

I thought they were all lower level, but I just wanted to check. Thanks for your time!

~Alissa

ok... exchange those for

Business Statistics* (aleks)
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences* (aleks)
Clep Language - if you get 12 credits at least 3 will be upper level.

I know for thomas edison state college . this program will work .


Thomas Edison State College | BA in Liberal Studies Credit Distribution

BA in Liberal Studies Credit Distribution

Subject Category
I. General Education Requirements 60
A. English Composition 6
B. Humanities 12
Must include at least two subject areas
C. Social Sciences 12
Must include at least two subject areas
D. Natural Sciences and Mathematics 12
One college-level mathematics course required (3)
One computer science course recommended (3)
Other natural sciences/mathematics (6)
Must include at least two subject areas
E. General Education Electives 18

II. Area of Study: Liberal Studies 33
A. REQUIREMENTS
1. Students complete 33 credits in the liberal studies concentration
2. At least two or more different subjects must be included to provide breadth of knowledge in the liberal studies concentration.
3.Courses transferred to Thomas Edison State College are equated to the following levels: 100, 200, 300 or 400. A maximum of two college-level courses equating to the 100 level can be applied toward the liberal studies area of study. A deeper knowledge of subjects is provided by requiring the remaining liberal studies concentration college-level courses equate to levels 200, 300 or 400.


33 credits TOTAL

III. FreeElectives 27
Total 120


27 FREE Electives can be FEMA's

you can also add

DSST Environment & Humanity: The Race to save the Planet

as a 200 level

[Joel]

TESC allows your depths to be in Social Science and Humanities? That's great. I asked EC about this and was told:
"Unfortunately, a Depth/Area of Focus (AoF) is designed to be more specific than just Social Sciences/Humanities and would require that you choose a specific discipline (ie. Psychology, Sociology).

[alissaroot]

TESC allows your depths to be in Social Science and Humanities? That's great. I asked EC about this and was told:
"Unfortunately, a Depth/Area of Focus (AoF) is designed to be more specific than just Social Sciences/Humanities and would require that you choose a specific discipline (ie. Psychology, Sociology).

Excelsior told me basically same thing when I wanted to use CLEP Social Sciences and History exam toward an Area of Focus in History. "That exam is too general, it must be more specific." TESC seems a bit more lenient in their acceptance policy, as far as upper vs. lower level, and they accept 200-level courses as upper level? I think that is what caused the confusion here, is that Excelsior considers 300+ courses upper level. That plan does look good for a TESC road map, though.

I also think that Excelsior gives all twelve credits possible from the foreign language exams as lower level, but creationstory is on the right track by thinking foreign language for upper level there. I could be wrong on this, and please correct me if I am, but rather than CLEP, the ACTFL (OPI) exam is a better way to go for foreign language upper level credits at Excelsior. This says they award six lower and six upper level, depending on the score and the language: http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Se...entID=6913 I cannot recall off the top of my head, but I think there are a few different foreign language exams out there that yield a lot of credit. But I'd rather take an ECE or a GRE than learn a whole language that I was completely unfamiliar with. Not that I wouldn't like to learn another language, it's just something that would take me a great deal of time.