Best options for someone with a bunch of art credits and no degree?

[dfrecore]

In looking at the courses, you're going to have to send the transcripts to TESU (and COSC and EC if you want) to see what they will bring these courses in as. You are limited to the number of 100-level courses you can have in the core (even in the LL section of it), plus, you don't know what they will bring in as LL, and what they will bring in as UL.

At TESU, I would apply for the Art degree, just to see what they say about the courses, and then if you don't get what you want there, you can easily switch to a BALS degree.

The art degree is very specific in what they want, so it's not just a matter of bringing in the Art courses and voila, you've got an art degree. You have to have Survey of Art History I & II, a course in 2-dimensional design, a course in drawing, a course in painting, and then 15cr additional elective in studio art or art history. The electives part is easy, it's the specific requirements that will be harder to meet. This will also (probably) require that you send in the syllabi for each course that is not simple for them to figure out (obviously Drawing I is easy to figure out, but Design II or Resources II might not be an easy one for them to know).

You also want to make sure that they get the course correctly identified as UL if that's what it's considered at that school. This is important, because TESU will want 18cr of UL, while COSC and EC want 30cr of UL. So this part is critical that they get right.

It will probably take you a little time to get all of that together, but it will be worth your time and effort to get the info into the correct hands so that they do this right. And, what you'll need for 1 school, you'll probably need for the others as well.

In the meantime, you can easily take a few other courses that you know you need at TESU - but make sure they will work at COSC or EC if you're thinking about either of those schools. Courses like math, Ethics, sociology, World religions, etc.