07-11-2006, 10:41 PM
Susitna1,
Just so you can put this into prospective, I'm 36 as well and started out this year (Jan 1 2006) with zero credits under my belt.
Six months later via clep, dantes, community college classses and the fema credits (DO NOT forget to load up on the FEMA credits!!! Especially if you are already in law enforcement. All the information for that is over at degreeinfo forums) I now have 55 credits while working full time (50 hours a week)
What I did was focus on getting credits in what I know. I would suggest that you do the same. You are in Law Enforcement, go with the CJ degree because half of the stuff that you are studying will either be second nature or you will already be familiar with it and you'll breeze right through.
Same with the general ed stuff.You like history? There are tons of history cleps and dantes. Psychology is your bag? Same deal.
The thing that you want to do is get a degree. As CJ degree is a great base degree for a number of grad programs.
Good luck.
pavlc
Just so you can put this into prospective, I'm 36 as well and started out this year (Jan 1 2006) with zero credits under my belt.
Six months later via clep, dantes, community college classses and the fema credits (DO NOT forget to load up on the FEMA credits!!! Especially if you are already in law enforcement. All the information for that is over at degreeinfo forums) I now have 55 credits while working full time (50 hours a week)
What I did was focus on getting credits in what I know. I would suggest that you do the same. You are in Law Enforcement, go with the CJ degree because half of the stuff that you are studying will either be second nature or you will already be familiar with it and you'll breeze right through.
Same with the general ed stuff.You like history? There are tons of history cleps and dantes. Psychology is your bag? Same deal.
The thing that you want to do is get a degree. As CJ degree is a great base degree for a number of grad programs.
Good luck.
pavlc
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