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Originally Posted by LatinTea

Plan for an English major, emphasizing History and some variety in Business (also satisfying 12th grade required classes and electives – American Government, Economics, English (of course), Health, Science, and Computer Applications). All CLEP unless otherwise stated. Online classes referred to are from Thomas Edison as Excelsior’s site isn’t as user friendly. This is from scratch with no college having been earned yet. Any major glitches that you see?

General Requirements (60):

English Composition w/essay
Humanities
2 more Humanity type subjects (?)
U.S. History I and II
Intro to Psychology
American Government
College Math or Algebra
Here’s to Your Health (DSST)
Info/Computer Applications
Principles of Statistics (DSST)
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Business Law (DSST)
Astronomy
World Religions

English Required Courses (12):

Survey of Lit I & II (online)
Analyzing Lit
Nonwestern Lit (online)

English Electives (21):

American Literature
English Literature
Shakespeare (TECEP)
Technical Writing (DSST)
This is where I need help. Are there any other tests that could qualify as English Electives? If not, then we will need to take 3 more online classes here.

Free Electives (27):

W. Civ. I and II
Rise and Fall of S. Union (upper)
Money and Banking (upper)
Civil War and Recon. (upper)
4 more electives of choice

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I think your business law will count as a free elective rather than a gen ed elective, but you could easily switch out the western civ you have under free. Did you find the page in the college catalog that lists the course/exam equiv?
Also- the social science and history exam (6) is VERY easy once you have taken a few classes in social science (psych, history, economics). Be flexible once he gets going- a lot of information overlaps, and he can take advantage of that. Also, he may find some subjects less interesting (more interesting!) or harder than planned. (science is much harder for me than I anticipated)

As for planning English classes- you should wait until he is enrolled-even if you save those until later. Reasoning is that he might have to transfer in classes from another college, and he will want (in writing) to work this out with his adviser. (I had a sociology 200 class transfer in as a sociology 174 which meant it didn't meet the requirement I planned for it to meet!) Also, you may remember someone suggested taking courses vs tests for those inside your major- I don't know if that is necessary, but it's worth looking into at a few colleges that offer masters in English degrees.

If you work it efficiently- he should be able to take many CLEPs in high school, and do his bachelor degree in 2 years of classes post highschool (with a few more CLEPs thrown in to pick up the slack).