New TECEP

[sanantone]

I'm thinking TECEPS that would cover topics like:

Women in the 20th Century

History of Film,Theatre, & Performance Art in Americaa

Native American Culture

Criminal Justice Through History

International Culture of the Internet

Public Policy & Advocacy

Design, Aesthetics, & Sustainability

International Crimes & Justice

Human Trafficking (possibly part of the above suggestion)

Okay. Humanities and social science. Sorry. I have a pet peeve for people calling the social sciences humanities. It started with the people on the City Data forum.

[SweetSecret]

I'm wishing for more upper-level Music and Natural Science TECEPs. Right now, most of the UL TECEPs are concentrated under the Business category.

By the way, are TECEPs cheaper than PLAs?

I'd also love if the brought out a "Jazz & Blues History" TECEP, but it's highly unlikely.

If you go through TESC's PLA-100 & PLA-200 course, then submit a portfolio for 12 credits, it would basically cost you $59.20/credit because you'll also get 3 credits (lower level) for the PLA courses. However, if you only need upper-level credits & go that route then you really are paying $74/credit versus $37/credit for a TECEP.

The alternative is to go through either Kaplan's PLA course online, which is free & will give you transferable ACE credits, but its not specific to TESC. Or use the free Saylor PLA course work, which is more specific to the TESC PLA process, but I believe will not give you the lower level ACE credits for the PLA course itself. I believe if you go through Saylor you need to sign-up for the ePortfolio so you can send your Saylor transcript to TESC proving you took a PLA course. If you go one of these two alternative routes & apply for 12 credits the cost would be $30.25/credit versus $37/credit for TECEPs. So it would be slightly cheaper, but involves writing a lot (Sanantone has previously mentioned about 5 pages per credit attempted). Its also not as guaranteed as the TECEPS, so PLAs are probably best used by someone who has a lot of advanced experience in a some-what uncommon topic.

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I'd also love if the brought out a "Jazz & Blues History" TECEP, but it's highly unlikely.

If you go through TESC's PLA-100 & PLA-200 course, then submit a portfolio for 12 credits, it would basically cost you $59.20/credit because you'll also get 3 credits (lower level) for the PLA courses. However, if you only need upper-level credits & go that route then you really are paying $74/credit versus $37/credit for a TECEP.

The alternative is to go through either Kaplan's PLA course online, which is free & will give you transferable ACE credits, but its not specific to TESC. Or use the free Saylor PLA course work, which is more specific to the TESC PLA process, but I believe will not give you the lower level ACE credits for the PLA course itself. I believe if you go through Saylor you need to sign-up for the ePortfolio so you can send your Saylor transcript to TESC proving you took a PLA course. If you go one of these two alternative routes & apply for 12 credits the cost would be $30.25/credit versus $37/credit for TECEPs. So it would be slightly cheaper, but involves writing a lot (Sanantone has previously mentioned about 5 pages per credit attempted). Its also not as guaranteed as the TECEPS, so PLAs are probably best used by someone who has a lot of advanced experience in a some-what uncommon topic.

Just to clarify, if I were to take the Kaplan or Saylor PLA and submit the transcript to TESC as prove, then the cost of 12 TESC PLA credits would be $30.25/credit?