Hi All, First, thanks very much for the wealth of information that I've already gotten off of this site. It has saved me lots & lots of running around. I'm aiming for a BA in Liberal Arts at TESC. Here's what I plan on doing. * Rough draft of my portfolios before I enroll to save time during enrollment. * Enroll, then send in credits from FEMA & a technical school I attended about 9 years ago. * Wait to see what they give for credit. * Then send in the portfolios. * Then when I know what I'm left with, take TCEPs & DANTES for the rest. I imagine I'll get between 30 & 60 credits for FEMA, tech school & portfolio combined. Any input on my approach mentioned above would be very helpful. Some other things that concern me are: 1. If I'm doing a portfolio assessment, how do I know where the credit will be applied to in my degree? For instance, the liberal arts have 18 general electives & 33 other electives. Do I tell them specifically which electives area I'd want those credits plugged into? Or, say they were computer courses, could I tell them I want them plugged into the math/science area, instead of the electives? Or would they be telling me this. 2. One other concern is that I'll have to wait until I do my assessment & send in my transcripts from FEMA & the tech school, in order to get started on my DANTES & TECEPs. I'd like to start on those now, but I'm kinda, "IFFY" about what ones I could take, & I certainly don't want to take any that will be useless or have an overlap occur from some things that were covered in my assessment. 3. Also, I don't see any info on upper versus lower credit requirements for the Liberal Arts degree at TESC. Any info that any of you can provide would be tremendously appreciated. thanks, Mark
Hi Mark, Sounds like a pretty good plan. As far as upper vs. lower level credits, I remember seeing literature on TESC's website explaining this but, because I haven't seriously considered them, I can't remember what their policy was exactly. You should be able to find this info with a simple search of their website. Good luck, Tony Maybe some of the people here who have more experience with TESC can help you?
This may help. Download or view the TESC catalog (.pdf) and look at the CLEP and DANTES courses beginning on page 101. The courses are listed with TESC course numbers. Funky version: CLEP EXAMINATION TITLE* PASSING SCORE ENGLISH COMPOSITION ENC-101/102-CE English Composition with Essay (General) (6) ............................50 ENC-101/102-CE Freshman College Composition with Essay (6) ..........................50 HUMANITIES FRE-101/102-CE College-Level French Language-Level 1 (6) ..............................50 FRE-101/102-CE College-Level French Language-Level 2 (12) ............................52 201/202 GRM-101/102-CE College-Level German Language-Level 1 (6)..............................50 GRM-101/102-CE College-Level German Language-Level 2 (12)............................63 201/202 HUM-101/102-CE Humanities (General) (6) ..........................................................50 LIT-111/112-CE American Literature (6) ..............................................................50 LIT-121/122-CE English Literature (6)..................................................................50 LIT-130/131-CE Analyzing and Interpreting Literature (6)......................................50 SPA-101/102-CE College-Level Spanish Language-Level 1 (6) ..............................50 SPA-101/102-CE College-Level Spanish Language-Level 2 (12) ............................54 201/202 SOCIAL SCIENCES ECO-111-CE Principles of Macroeconomics (3) ..............................................50 ECO-112-CE Principles of Microeconomics (3)................................................50 HIS-101-CE Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648 (3) ..................50 HIS-102-CE Western Civilization II: 1648 to the Present (3)............................50 HIS-113-CE History of the United States I: Early Colonizations to 1877 (3) ....50 HIS-114-CE History of the United States II: 1865 to the Present (3) ................50 POS-110-CE American Government (3) ........................................................50 PSY-101-CE Introductory Psychology (3) ........................................................50 PSY-211-CE Human Growth and Development (3) ........................................50 PSY-230-CE Introduction to Educational Psychology (3)..................................50 SOC-101-CE Introductory Sociology (3) ..........................................................50 SOS-101/102-CE Social Sciences and History (General) (6) ..................................50 NATURAL SCIENCES/MATHEMATICS BIO-115/116-CE General Biology (nonlab) (6) ....................................................50 CHE-115/116-CE General Chemistry (nonlab) (6)..................................................50 MAT-102/103-CE College Mathematics (General) (6) ............................................50 MAT-120-CE College Algebra-Trigonometry (3) ..............................................50 MAT-121-CE College Algebra (3) ..................................................................50 MAT-122-CE Trigonometry (3)........................................................................50 MAT-231/232-CE Calculus with Elementary Functions (6) ......................................50 NAS-101/102-CE Natural Sciences (General) (6) ..................................................50 BUSINESS ACC-101/102-CE Principles of Accounting (6)........................................................50 COS-101-CE Information Systems and Computer Applications (3) ..................50 LAW-201-CE Introductory Business Law (3) ....................................................50 MAN-301-CE Principles of Management (3) ....................................................50 MAR-301-CE Principles of Marketing (3) ........................................................50 DANTES EXAMINATION TITLE* PASSING SCORE HUMANITIES ART-166-DE Art of the Western World (3) ..................................................48 ENG-201-DE Technical Writing (3) ..............................................................46 PHI-281-DE Ethics in America (3) ............................................................46 REL-405-DE Introduction to World Religions (3) ..........................................49 SOCIAL SCIENCES ANT-101-DE General Anthropology (3) ......................................................47 ECO-332-DE Money and Banking (3)** ......................................................48 GOG-120-DE Human/Cultural Geography (3)..............................................48 HIS-222-DE Contemporary Western Europe: 1946-1990 (3) ......................48 HIS-252-DE The Civil War and Reconstruction (3) ......................................47 HIS-309-DE An Introduction to the Modern Middle East (3) ........................44 HIS-351-DE A History of the Vietnam War (3) ............................................49 HIS-386-DE Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (3)........................................45 PSY-211-DE Lifespan Developmental Psychology (3)....................................46 PSY-361-DE Organizational Behavior (3)** ................................................48 SOS-305-DE Drug and Alcohol Abuse (3) ..................................................49 NATURAL SCIENCES/MATHEMATICS AST-101-DE Astronomy (3) ........................................................................48 COS-101-DE Introduction to Computing (3) ................................................47 ENS-201-DE Environment and Humanity: The Race to Save the Planet (3) ....46 GEO-151-DE Physical Geology (3) ..............................................................46 MAT-114-DE Fundamentals of College Algebra (3) ......................................47 NAS-131-DE Principles of Physical Science I (3)............................................47 STA-201-DE Principles of Statistics (3) ........................................................48 BUSINESS ACC-101-DE Principles of Financial Accounting (3) ......................................49 BUS-101-DE Introduction to Business (3) ....................................................46 BUS-161-DE Business Mathematics (3)........................................................48 CIS-301-DE Management Information Systems (3)......................................46 FIN-301-DE Principles of Finance (3)..........................................................46 FIN-332-DE Money and Banking (3)** ......................................................48 LAW-202-DE Business Law II (3) ..................................................................52 MAN-201-DE Principles of Supervision (3) ....................................................46 MAN-311-DE Organizational Behavior (3)** ................................................48 MAN-331-DE Personnel/Human Resource Management (3) ..........................48 HUMAN SERVICES AOJ-101-DE Introduction to Law Enforcement (3) ........................................45 AOJ-102-DE Criminal Justice (3) ................................................................49 COU-262-DE Fundamentals of Counseling (3)..............................................45 HEA-103-DE Here’s to Your Health (3) ........................................................48 FREE ELECTIVES BUE-101-DE Personal Finance (3) ..............................................................46 EDU-102-DE Foundations of Education (3) ..................................................46 The following DANTES examination is not administered at Thomas Edison State College. However, Thomas Edison State College will accept it for credit if it has been taken elsewhere. COM-201-DE Principles of Public Speaking (3)..............................................47
Is that the # of answers you need correct to pass, or the percentage? For example:HIS-252-DE The Civil War and Reconstruction (3) ......................................47 I believe that this test had about 120 questions.
Friendly advice: don't get your hopes high for Tech School credit unless it is a regionally accredited (RA) inst'n... which, it seems, would be a real contradiction. I've been trying to get my two years of tech school RA'd for two year and portfolio assessment is the only viable option that I've found from talking with mariad accrediting inst's and colleges, one of which I used to teach at. On the other hand, if you learn of any "secret" methods for transferring national accredited cred's to RA ones, PLEASE, do let us know!
Don't know. That's been discussed here by those who do know but I don't recall how the different schools evaluate these things.
The possibility of ACE credit is the only secret I'm allowed to reveal. The Grand Members can reveal more but their identity is secret.
