I'm new and could use some advice and help.

[Attie]

Charter Oak will allow a "dual concentration" that's what I did. I mention History because it does have the two UL exams that are well vetted on this forum and easy to study for. Plus you can find plenty of online UL History classes to fill the remaining 6 credits....done via LSU or University of Idaho these would only be around $100/credit....keeps your costs down. You can almost certainly substitute some other exams for this if your so inclined too..like

Your 30 UL credits might look like this:

English Concentration (18 needed at UL)....$900 or so for the Capstone, then 5 classes ranging from $300-$500.....about $2000:
(3UL) Capstone COSC
(15UL) From any UL English/Writing course BYU/LSU, there are 2 courses at University of Idaho.

History (12 needed at UL)....this can be done as low as $400 or so:
(3) DSST Civil War
(3) DSST Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
(3) ECE Cultural Diversity
(3) ECE World Conflicts since 1900
......or sub classes from the usual suspects: LSU/UofI/BYU


So around $3000 to finish out the UL requirement another $500 or so in fee's and another $900 for the Cornerstone, If your Gen Eds are done the rest can likely be FEMA.....this is a $5000 degree you can finish by the end of the year. What will it cost at AMU/APU?

That is very interesting, but I’m still not sure. I just wonder if having a degree like history/English would be a bad thing when it comes to getting a job. I hope to eventually make my living as a freelance writer, but if I needed to get a job elsewhere... Say I want to teach English to middle schoolers (I absolutely don’t want to teach, but it’s an example), would I qualify for that job with a dual concentration? Or if I wanted to work at a museum or something on the history side of things, would I qualify for that job? Those are just top of my head examples, but that is one worry that comes to mind when I think about having a dual concentration. If that likely wouldn’t be an issue, then it might be great, especially since I am interested in both subjects! Thank you very much for breaking things down for me like that. It is way cheaper than what my degree at APUS would cost.

If I were to stick with just one concentration, do you think getting a history degree would be easier to get than an English degree?