Sample TESU BA Foreign Language - Spanish Degree Plan

Please get an advisor to pre-plan your UL courses before purchasing them. TESU may have other ideas about what works for this degree.

Due to the lack of alternate credit available for this degree, this is not necessarily one of the cheapest degrees available. If money is a concern, students may wish to choose a degree in Liberal Studies or something else more cost-effective.

=Generic BA Foreign Language (Spanish) Degree Plan= This is a generic degree plan that applies to Thomas Edison State University for a Bachelor Arts in Foreign Languages (Spanish) as of approximately August of 2022. Please make sure that the suggestions are still valid before beginning to follow this plan.

General Education Requirements
See the GE Requirements Roadmap for details and suggestions on courses that will fill this requirement. As of 2021, students are required to have a minimum of 30 RA credits to complete their degree. Due to the nature of this degree, many/most of the required RA credits will fall in the AOS.

Spanish AOS
42 credits are in the AOS. 15 credits need to be UL, plus the capstone.

Part A. Intermediate Language I & II
6 credits.

Part B. Advanced Language I & II
6 credits.

Part C. History & Civilization
3 credits. Must be taught in Spanish. Must be 200-level or better.

Part D. Major Writers of Literature
6 credits. Must be taught in Spanish. Must be 200-level or better. Topics can include Major Writers and/or Masterpieces of Literature.

Part E. AOS Electives
9 credits. Must be taught in Spanish. Excess ACTFL credits not used above can go here.

Part F. Additional AOS Electives
12 credits. Humanities (History, Communications, Art, etc.). If insufficient UL credits above, these should count towards the UL credit requirement.

Liberal Arts Capstone
Must be taken at TESU. There is an alternative 6-credit capstone available that provides hands-on experience.

Electives
30 credits required. These electives can be on any topic.

See the GE Requirements Roadmap for suggestions.