Masters degree without bachelors

Social Science instead of psych is because psych requirements are specific- in other words, you'll have to hunt down exact classes. TESC does NOT offer every class needed for the degree. Social Science, OTOH, allows you to take classes with them and combine that with testing. That said, I can direct you to a few folks who have done the psych degree and could point you in the right direction.

I completed my degree before "the change" in upper level requirements, so my degree plan technically wouldn't work now. I'm still up on what's required and could help you assemble a workable plan.

For my degree, I started with zero. I used CLEP/DSST exams to test out of my gen eds. I did that for roughly 50something credits- spent 6 months doing that. Then, I enrolled at TESC. I used financial aid, so I took classes for all 4 terms to get the max amount of $. (TESC has 4ea 12 week terms per year) In my case, I had a pell grant, which paid for almost 100% of my TESC classes. I also took classes at local colleges for my "in major" classes. I did all of these online and rocked out 21 credits in one term (7 classes) and spaced out the others. So, my transcript shows I tested out of all my gen eds and took classes in my major. For my free electives, TESC allows you to use FEMA (100% no cost) but I am a teacher at a community college and they have this cool program that anything you teach which is not on any of your student transcripts you can submit for credit- I did this for 27 credits.

You also asked about my degree. For social science, you can choose ANY of the social sciences (minimum 2) and pull from those. For me, I had psychology and sociology (and social psychology) for the bulk of my credits, then I took 1 class in anthropology and 2 in criminal justice. While I didn't, a person could also use government, economics, and history in there too.

Do you have your transcript handy? If you post what you've already taken I can help you plug it in and fill in a few blanks.

 

First off I have to say incase you dont hear it enough, Cook you are AWESOME and a great assest to degreeinfo.

I was mostly interested in a BA in Psych just because thats where my interest lies and plan to do further graduate study in the field be it b&m or dl, idk yet. My only concern with a degree in social science is that it is so broad that it may be looked upon on by academia negatively. Also I should note as you said you used grants I have my full GI bill to use but I wanted to save that for graduate studies.

CC courses taken
HIS-114 American History II=3.00 A
HIS-113 American History I=3.00 A
REL-199 Spec. Stud. in Selected Topics=3.00 A
PHI-180 Introduction to Ethics=3.00 A
PSY-101 Introduction to Psychology=3.00 A
SOC-101 Introduction to Sociology=3.00 A

Free electives
30ish Fema/NFA credits=all 1.00
HEA-195 First Aid=1.00
MSC-101 Military Science=2.00
MSC-131 Marksmanship=1.00
PEA-199 Spec. Stud. in Selected Topics=1.00

Starting in Oct. I plan to take these classes at the local CC
PHR-107 Intro to the Philosophy of Art
SOC-113 Social Problems
HSE-101 Intro to homeland security
PSY-102 Intro Abnormal Psych
CRJ-107 Criminology
PSY-201 Child Psychology

Thanks for your help

 

A BA/BS in Psych (with an excellent GPA) will give you a better chance of landing a spot in a competitive graduate psych program. if you are looking to get into a top school, I would suggest completing your undergrad through a well known school (B&M if you can manage it). There are several good schools with online bachelors in psych programs Drexel and Univ of Washington come to mind.

Best of luck.

 

Good advice japhy although a top school would be awesome and look good. Time & money and idk how many DL,clep,dsst credits would transfer to a 4yr b&m. My thinking was being a NJ resident earn my ba from tesc than apply to graduate school at one of the many NJ state schools.