Considering a career change...

[dfrecore]

Dfrecore, thanks for that degree plan. I downloaded it and am looking at it now. I do have Intro to Psych and Psychology of Personality (both transferred from my university days). So I am going to replace one of the electives with the Personality course, probably Educational Psych.

Also, there is a Marriage and Family TECEP. I like marriage and family issues--family systems has a lot of overlap with child issues. I looked at the Psych page at TESU and it is not listed as an elective. Do you know if it works as an elective here? This is considered a SOC course rather than PSYCH, so no it won't work.

Next question: I love the InstantCert format for studying and want to use it as much as possible if I decide to get the BA. It shows a few ECE psych exams, such as: I'm sure you can still use it for Study.com, but I'm not certain you need to.

Abnormal Psychology
Ethics:Theory and Practice (not sure if this is psych related) It's not, and won't count for the requirement.
Foundations of Gerontology SOC - Won't count as an elective.
Psychology of Adulthood & Aging
Research Methods in Psychology
Social Psychology
World Population (probably not psych related) SOC - Won't count as an elective.

I've never taken an ECE exam. Do I have to be an Excelsior student to take them? No. If not, will they work in this plan? Yes, but it will be more expensive. Taking 2 courses/mo at Study.com is less than the $145/exam through UExcel - and you have to go to a testing center for UExcel, but do Study.com at home. You can also get the $199/mo Study.com cost down by taking additional exams in a month ($70 per course for 3rd+ course in a month).

Thank you!

My responses are in bold red above.

Since you haven't taken any Study.com courses yet, I suggest you do that before you write them off and switch to UExcel. Try it on the courses UExcel doesn't offer, and see how it goes. If you find that you still want to take UExcel for the remaining courses, then you would have a good head-start anyway. IC would probably work well at that point.