COSC Degree Plan

[BohdanH]

I have been lurking this site and the degree forum wiki for a few years now waiting until I completed an industry designation to begin the process of getting a degree by testing out. So far I've decided Charter Oak would be my school of choice and I've started putting my degree plan together but I ran into a couple snags and was wondering if the more experienced here could help me out.

A couple of things before I get to the plan. The degree forum wiki has been a great help but I did not see any courses on there related to the concentration now required by COSC. Also, there were a couple courses that the degree forum wiki said were worth 6 credits but for which the COSC master exam list only shows 3 credits. I've created an account with ACE Credit and have added all of my courses from my designation to my transcript with them. Since COSC will accept ACE approved courses/exams I've tried to stick with those where possible.

I started with COSC's site to get this ball rolling and have tried to back fill from there using the degree forum wiki, the COSC master exam list, and the ACE site for approved courses. COSC is stating that 30 credits must be in the upper level and that 60 of the 120 credits be in Liberal Arts subjects.

Major Requirements (45 credits) - Major (27 Credits)
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[tr]
[td]COSC Course[/td]
[td]Credit[/td]
[td]Source[/td]
[td]U/L[/td]
[td]Libaral Arts[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
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[tr]
[td]Financial Accounting[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]CLEP[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]No[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Managerial Accounting[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]StraighterLine[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]No[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Business Law[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]CLEP[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]No[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Principles of Management[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]CLEP[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]No[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Management Information Systems[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]DSST[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]No[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Principles of Marketing[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]CLEP/Saylor[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]No[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Financial Management[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]DSST - Principles of Finance[/td]
[td]U[/td]
[td]?[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Organizational Behavior[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]DSST/UExcel[/td]
[td]L/U[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Capstone - Strategic Management[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]COSC[/td]
[td]U[/td]
[td]?[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
Concentration (9 Credits)
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[tr]
[td]Organizational Behavior[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]?[/td]
[td]?[/td]
[td]?[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Organizational & Group Dynamics[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]?[/td]
[td]?[/td]
[td]?[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Organizational Theory[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]?[/td]
[td]?[/td]
[td]?[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
Prerequisites (9 Credits)
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[tr]
[td]Macroeconomics[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]CLEP/Saylor - Principles of Macroeconomics[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microeconomics[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]CLEP/Saylor - Principles of Microeconomics[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Business Statistics[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]ALEKS[/td]
[td]U[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

General Ed (40 Credits)
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[tr]
[td]Cornerstone[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]COSC[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Written Communication[/td]
[td]6[/td]
[td]CLEP - College Comp[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Oral Communication[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]DSST - Principles of Public Speaking[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Information Literacy[/td]
[td]0 (satisfied by Cornerstone)[/td]
[td]COSC[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]U.S. History / Government[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]DSST - Civil War and Reconstruction[/td]
[td]U[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Non-U.S. History or Culture[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]DSST - Intro To World Religions[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Global Understanding[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]DSST - Environment & Humanity[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Literature & Fine Arts[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]CLEP - Humanities[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Social / Behavioral Sciences[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]UExcel - Social Psychology[/td]
[td]U[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Mathematics[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]CLEP - College Mathematics[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Natural Sciences[/td]
[td]12[/td]
[td]Saylor/CLEP - Intro to Molecular Biology/Gen Chem 1/Natural Sciences [/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]Yes[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

Please critique what I have so far. As you can see I still need to put together 35 credits for electives and I have not found anything for the concentration courses. I only have 15 possible upper level credits so far and I need 30.

Also, on the wiki page it shows 6 credits for CLEP - Analyzing and Interpreting Literature and CLEP - Humanities, but the COSC master exam list only shows 3 credits for each of these courses.

Finally, below are my courses approved for credit through ACE. Does anyone know where these would fit or possibly replace COSC required courses?

Business Law for Insurance Professionals
American Institute For Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Insurance Institute of America
AICP-0054 Course 01/15/2014
Commercial Liability Risk Management and Insurance
American Institute For Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Insurance Institute of America
AICP-0052 Course 01/31/2016
Commercial Property Risk Management and Insurance
American Institute For Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Insurance Institute of America
AICP-0051 Course 12/15/2015
Ethics and the CPCU Code of Professional Conduct (online course)
American Institute For Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Insurance Institute of America
AICP-0121 Course 01/09/2013
Finance and Accounting for Insurance Professionals
American Institute For Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Insurance Institute of America
AICP-0056 Course 03/10/2015
Foundations of Risk Management and Insurance
American Institute For Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Insurance Institute of America
AICP-0122 Course 02/28/2013
Insurance Operations
American Institute For Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Insurance Institute of America
AICP-0053 Course 05/06/2013
Strategic Underwriting Techniques
American Institute For Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Insurance Institute of America
AICP-0142 Course 04/30/2016
Survey of Personal Insurance and Financial Planning
American Institute For Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Insurance Institute of America
AICP-0097 Course 03/14/2016