Excelsior BS in Business Degree Plan

[jackbanta]

UPDATED DEGREE PLAN:
Arts and Science – 60 Needed
CLEP History of the United States I 3
CLEP History of the United States II 3
CLEP College Composition 3
CLEP Humanities 6
CLEP Biology 6
CLEP College Mathematics 6
CLEP Introductory Psychology 3
CLEP American Government 3
CLEP Social Sciences and History 6
CLEP Microeconomics 3
CLEP Macroeconomics 3
ALEKS College Algebra 3
ALEKS Introduction to Statistics 3
DSST Foundations of Education 3 *
DSST Environment and Humanity 3 *
DSST Technical Writing 3 *


Career Component – 45 Needed (12 Upper)
Accounting I, straighterline 3 (Financial Accounting)
Accounting II, straighterline 3 (Managerial Accounting)
CLEP Intro to Business Law 3 (Introduction to Business Law)
CLEP Information Systems 3 (Computers)
CLEP Principles of Management 3 (Principles of Management)
CLEP Principles of Marketing 3 (Principles of Marketing)
DSST Principles of Finance 3 (Financial Management)
311 MGMT at CSU Pueblo 3 (Production/Operations Management)
BUS 495 at Excelsior (Business Policy)
DSST Business Ethics 3 U (Ethics Requirement)
DSST Organizational Behavior 3 (Organizational Behavior)
DSST Business Law II 3 U
DSST Management Information Systems 3 U
DSST Money and Banking 3 U
DSST Intro to Business 3

Electives – 15 Needed
Information Literacy 1
DSST Principles of Supervision 3
DSST Human Resource Management 3
DSST Fundamentals of Counseling 3*
CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 6

What I've changed is I've decided to take Accounting I in addition to Accounting II from straighterline and I took Statistics and College Algebra from ALEKS. Business Statistics DOES duplicate at Excelsior (and I'm not even sure if it fulfills the requirement, although if it duplicates, you'd think it would), so really, College Algebra and Intro to Statistics are the only courses one can use there if pursuing this particular degree from Excelsior.

I also dropped the American Literature test from my plan in favor of the DSST Principles of Supervision and DSST Human Resource Management due to the extensive crossover inefficiencies with CLEP Principles of Management and DSST Organizational Behavior. This thread says that you can't take DSST Principles of Supervision and CLEP Management at Excelsior, it is mistaken. However, Substance Abuse cannot be used as an upper level business class... Money and Banking needs to be substituted there.

*I'm personally not taking the Natural Sciences and Chemistry CLEPs now, as I want to take some more examinations that are graded in their place to raise my GPA, but one could substitute any combination of two six credit CLEPs instead of the four DSSTs I've selected.