Mahaganapati's TESU BACS Plan

[mahaganapati]

Here is my plan to finish my remaining 96 credits. I have 12 AP credits (ACE) and 12 RA credits marked with Done and I have marked the others with Need for what I plan to take.

Edit: The Done credits are from my academic evaluation in the TESU student portal.

Remaining Questions and Considerations
- What is the latest regarding Study.com and CS AOS credits? The wiki and forums contradict. I.e. the Wiki used to list SDC as an option for Comp. Arch. but now doesn't. However I thought I saw a thread that someone recently got credit for this.
- I need to plan 9 more RA credits in place of some of the ACE credits below.
- I can speak German really well, so maybe it would be worth getting credit from ACTFL or TLI for that?

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1. BA General Education

A. Intel and Pract. Skills

Written Communication
Done - AP Exam - ENC-101 - English Composition I

Written Communication
Done - Previous college - ENG102 - First Year Comp

Oral Communication
Need - Study.com - Communication 120

Quantitative Literacy
Need - Sophia.org - Introduction to Statistics

Information Literacy
Need - TESU   - SOS-110

B. CIV & GLOBAL LDRSHP

Diversity Intercultural Literacy
Done - Previous college - GER411 - Advance Grammar and Conversation

Ethical Leadership
Need   - Sophia.org - Introduction to Ethics

Civic Engagement and Awareness
Need   - InstantCert.com - American Government

C. KNOWLDG HUMAN CULTRS

Social Sciences
Done  - AP Exam - ECO-111 - Macroeconomics

History
Need   - Sophia.org - US History

Humanities
Done  - Previous college - FLA400 - Linguistics

Social Sciences, History, and/or Humanities
Done  - Previous college - ENG494
Need   - Sophia.org       - Microeconomics

D. SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Need -   Sophia.org - Environmental Science
Need   - Sophia.org - Intro to Human Biology

2. Additional General Education - Waived

3. Computer Science

A. Programming

Need -    Unsure - options are Study.com, OnlineDegree, or ASU EA

B. Data Structures
Need -    Study.com - CS201

C. Calculus I
Done  - AP Exam - MAT-232 - Calculus II

D. Discrete Math
Need   - Sutdy.com - Math 108

E. Operating Systems
Need   - Study.com - CS105

F. Cmp Architecture
Need   - Study.com - CS306

G. AOS Electives
Need - Study.com - CS302
Need -    Study.com - CS303
Need -    Study.com - CS310
Need -    Study.com - Business 303
Need -    TESU      - CIS-351


H. Add'l Electives
Done  - AP Exam    - Calculus I
Need   - Sophia.org - Introduction to IT

4. Liberal Arts Capstone

Need -   TESU   - LIB-495

5. Electives

All Sophia.org

Need -

- Macroeconomics
- Principles of Finance
- Introduction to Relational DB
- Introduction to Web Dev
- Discover the Writer in You
- Visual Communication
- Ancient Greek Philosophers
- Approaches to Relgion
- Art History I
- Art History II
- College Algebra
- Introduction to College Maths
- Introduction to Chemistry

[dfrecore]

First, you need to put your AP credits here, as they change over time. List the exam, the year you took them, and the score; we can double-check your credits. Also list the credits you got for your previous college, as you may or may not have them in the right places.

Second, I think easy (for you) RA credit is as follows:
MTH 117 - Finite Math (ONU)
MTH 120: Intro to Statistics (ONU)
MAT-105: Applied Liberal Arts Mathematics (TECEP)
MAT-121: College Algebra
STA-201: Principles of Statistics
CIS-107: Computer Concepts & Applications (TECEP)

Last, I would definitely do ACTFL/LTI exams for German, since it's a lot of credit very quickly. Just choose which one you want, based on how many credits you'd like to get out of it.
OPI/OPIc - up to 12cr
WPT - up to 12cr
LPT - up to 6cr
RPT - up to 6cr
Your current credits will have a tiny bit of overlap with the WPT, but only 3cr worth if you scored the highest.

[mahaganapati]

First, you need to put your AP credits here, as they change over time.  List the exam, the year you took them, and the score; we can double-check your credits.  Also list the credits you got for your previous college, as you may or may not have them in the right places.

Second, I think easy (for you) RA credit is as follows:
MTH 117 - Finite Math (ONU)
MTH 120: Intro to Statistics (ONU)
MAT-105: Applied Liberal Arts Mathematics (TECEP)
MAT-121: College Algebra
STA-201: Principles of Statistics
CIS-107: Computer Concepts & Applications (TECEP)

Last, I would definitely do ACTFL/LTI exams for German, since it's a lot of credit very quickly.  Just choose which one you want, based on how many credits you'd like to get out of it.
OPI/OPIc - up to 12cr
WPT - up to 12cr
LPT - up to 6cr
RPT - up to 6cr
Your current credits will have a tiny bit of overlap with the WPT, but only 3cr worth if you scored the highest.

Thanks for the advice on the RA credits and German. Are there any prior experiences on ACTFL vs TLI and the costs, process of transferring credit?

Sorry for not making it clear - the RA credits and AP exams I have marked as done are from my academic evaluation from the TESU dashboard due to sending my previous transcripts.

[rachel83az]

Thank you for the reminder that I haven't fixed the wiki yet. I will go do that now!

Are you trying to avoid paying the residency waiver or not? For you and your RA credits, I would suggest:

Intro to Stats from ONU; maybe Finite Math, too. This gets you to 15/18 RA credits.

From TESU, for a 16-credit-term (to avoid residency waiver):
Capstone
Cornerstone
PLA-100
CIS-351
CIS-107 ePack
ART-100 or other class of your choice from https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Th...timization

The ASNSM Math degree requires Calculus + 15 additional credits of Math. It's pretty easy to pick up an ASNSM in Mathematics for FREE (other than the cost of the extra math courses), so I'd suggest doing that. You can get that easily with any/all of the following:
Discrete Math (SDC)
College Math (Sophia)
College Algebra (Sophia)
Statistics (ONU)
Finite Math (ONU)
Linear Algebra (Coopersmith - may also count as an UL credit for comp sci).
You could also grab CSM Learn for $39 if you'd rather go that way.

For Intro to Programming, ASU doesn't seem to be about to offer that again any time soon. It's still listed, but has no start date. Maybe someone should email them to ask if/when it'll be offered again. The SDC course will be much faster than OnlineDegree, but it doesn't hurt to give the OD course a shot since it's free until you take the exam.

[carrythenothing]

The ASNSM Math degree requires Calculus + 15 additional credits of Math. It's pretty easy to pick up an ASNSM in Mathematics for FREE (other than the cost of the extra math courses), so I'd suggest doing that. You can get that easily with any/all of the following:
Discrete Math (SDC)
College Math (Sophia)
College Algebra (Sophia)
Statistics (ONU)
Finite Math (ONU)
Linear Algebra (Coopersmith - may also count as an UL credit for comp sci).
You could also grab CSM Learn for $39 if you'd rather go that way.

For Intro to Programming, ASU doesn't seem to be about to offer that again any time soon. It's still listed, but has no start date. Maybe someone should email them to ask if/when it'll be offered again. The SDC course will be much faster than OnlineDegree, but it doesn't hurt to give the OD course a shot since it's free until you take the exam.

I liked the OnlineDegree course -- it also made the Python programming course on SDC a breeze when I wanted the extra lower-level credits.

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Sorry for not making it clear - the RA credits and AP exams I have marked as done are from my academic evaluation from the TESU dashboard due to sending my previous transcripts.

Depending on how much you remember/like calculus, it might be worth going for the BA with two areas of study -- Computer Science and Mathematics (instead of the BA in Computer Science and ASNSM in Mathematics).

[dfrecore]

Last, I would definitely do ACTFL/LTI exams for German, since it's a lot of credit very quickly.  Just choose which one you want, based on how many credits you'd like to get out of it.
OPI/OPIc - up to 12cr
WPT - up to 12cr
LPT - up to 6cr
RPT - up to 6cr
Your current credits will have a tiny bit of overlap with the WPT, but only 3cr worth if you scored the highest.

Thanks for the advice on the RA credits and German. Are there any prior experiences on ACTFL vs TLI and the costs, process of transferring credit?

Sorry for not making it clear - the RA credits and AP exams I have marked as done are from my academic evaluation from the TESU dashboard due to sending my previous transcripts.

ACTFL is the organization that created the exams, LTI is the exam company.  They work together, and you get your ACE credits from ACTFL.  https://www.actfl.org/center-assessment-...n-delivery

https://www.languagetesting.com/lti-info...-by-credly

OPI - $165
OPIc or WPT - $108
LPT or RPT - $51

https://www.languagetesting.com/lti/prod...nt_id/9053?

[LevelUP]

Some Things to Consider

Intro to programming on OD is Python.

Intro to programming on Study.com is Java.

The assignment on Data Structures is based on Java. 

If you do the 16 flat-rate term, you need 1 more RA course.

You could attempt the Into Stats STA-201 TECEP as this is logic-based with only 55% needed to pass. Or find another easy TECEP such as the Into IT CIS-107.

Your plan looks great.

[mahaganapati]

Thank you everyone for all your help!

Something I am not clear on -
I only need 12 more RA credits (besides the 6 required from TESU) - could 10 of those come from the 16-credit strategy? I.e. 16 credit term minus 6 credits from SOS-110 and LIB-495 leaves 10 RA credits, thus just needing 2 outside RA credits?

[rachel83az]

Yes, exactly. 10 of them can come from TESU courses. I wouldn't waste time on trying to find a 2-credit RA course, though. Take a 3-credit course and be done with it.

[Flelm]

Thank you everyone for all your help!

Something I am not clear on -
I only need 12 more RA credits (besides the 6 required from TESU) - could 10 of those come from the 16-credit strategy? I.e. 16 credit term minus 6 credits from SOS-110 and LIB-495 leaves 10 RA credits, thus just needing 2 outside RA credits?

Yes, that's basically correct. It's going to be easier to find a 3 credit class though, of course, so you end up with 31 RA credits. It's technically 90 maximum alternative credits, not 30 minimum RA credits.