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Eligibility Criteria

High School Diploma, GED or equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

84 Hours

Course Duration

1 Year (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

14

Courses Offered In ASSOCIATE TO BACHELORS DEGREE

  • Courses Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Introduction to Political Science

  • Political Science course offers an unbiased and thorough introduction to basic concepts and theories of political science. Major theories expose you to many ways of thinking. Emphasizing both U.S. and comparative politics, will provide you with a solid foundation of knowledge and the analytical skills necessary to understand modern politics in historical context.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Mass Communication

  • This course explores system-wide view of the interacting social, historical, economic, and technological forces at work in today's rapidly evolving mass media. The course combines concrete practice of journalism with empirical research, enabling you to comprehend the impact of dynamic media that are an integral part of our lives today.

  • 6 Credits

  • World Literature

  • With classic and contemporary selections from a wide range of racial and ethnic groups, World literature course will introduce you to important literary works and help you explore critical themes of our times, such as gender and identity, the effects of war and violence, race and culture, and more.

  • 6 Credits

  • Foundations of Sociology

  • Foundation of sociology course helps you explore how you learn and use learning strategies for more effective study. It covers topics: perspective and method, social inequality, social institutions, and working for change. Focus on deviance and crime includes an extensive discussion of crime, crime rates, and criminal justice system. 

  • 6 Credits

  • English Rhetoric

  • English Rhetoric course concentrates on using processes and skills common to all good academic writing. Course comprises of five major parts: discussion of writing process; guidelines for writing essays in each rhetorical mode; a look at writing with sources; anthology of reading selections; and complete introduction of grammar and usage. 

  • 6 Credits

  • Essentials of General Psychology

  • This psychology course focuses on development of critical thinking skills crucial to your success. This course provides details of tradition integrating gender, culture, and ethnicity throughout, biology and behavior, learning and conditioning, Social Forces, Culture, and Behavior, thinking and intelligence, memory, emotion. motivation, theories of personality, health and disorder. 

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to World History

  • This World’s history course provides an engaging overview of human civilization. It provides you with most help available in reading, thinking about, and applying the material they learn about world’s history. In-depth information presented in such a way that you will have a feeling that course made history come alive.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Economics

  • This course will motivate you to learn economics through real business examples. You all can relate to businesses they encounter in their everyday lives. Course provides an introduction to methodology and analytical tools used by economists. Economic theory, policy and history are examined with major emphasis on macroeconomics and microeconomics.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to English Linguistics

  • This course present you with the basic elements of linguistics in a clear and concise style that any beginner will understand. The course illustrates major concepts in an easy-to-read style, giving you an introduction to the essential principles and methods of linguistic theory.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to English Grammar

  • This English grammar course you to think critically about grammar and exposes them to a variety of linguistic theories. The course aims to give insight into a standard description of the English language and into the relationship between meaning and grammatical form.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to English Literature

  • An enriching introduction to the diverse and exciting world of literature, this anthology offers broad collection of short fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction selections written by a diverse group of writers who represent different social classes, races, genders, cultures, and sexual orientations. Explains the ways in which literary form creates meaning.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Theatre

  • Focusing on the collaborative and creative processes that go into productions, course introduces you to theatre through plays themselves and people who write them, create them, and act in them. Rich context is provided for each play with discussion of playwright’s other works, sources for the play, historical timelines.

  • 6 Credits

  • Fundamentals of Fiction

  • A collection of carefully chosen, interesting stories, best-selling Fiction 100 ignites your curiosity, imagination, and intelligence. This outstanding course of 131 stories represents a wide variety of subject matter, theme, literary technique, and style. Course contains fiction from early 19th century to present day; features 131 traditional and contemporary works.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Poetry

  • This course is designed to provide a background in analyzing poems, applying literary theory, forming opinions and offers approaches to discussing and writing about poetry. The course teaches you how a writer works so that they can feel more comfortable reading poems. Course examines how a poem is built. 

  • 6 Credits
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Introduction to political science

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    A science of politics?
    Theories: classic and modern.
    Nations, states, and governments.
    Individuals and constitutions.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Democracy, totalitarianism, and authoritarianism.
    Political ideologies.
    Political culture.
    Public opinion.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Political communication and the media.
    Interest groups.
    Political parties and party systems.
    Elections.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The basic institutions of government.
    Legislatures.
    Executives.
    Administration and bureaucracy.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Legal systems and the courts.
    Political economy.
    Violence and revolution.
    International relations.
    The global system.

Introduction to mass communication

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    We the people: media and communication.
    Books.
    Newspapers.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Magazines.
    The movies.
    Radio.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Television.
    Music and the recording industry.
    Computers and the internet highway.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Journalism: information and society.
    Public relations.
    Advertising.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Ethics.
    Regulation.
    Mass communication research: from content to effects.

World literature

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Roots and rebellions
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Gender and identity
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    War and violence
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Race and culture
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Individualism and community

Foundations of Sociology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    What is sociology?
    Research methods
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Culture, society, and social change
    Socialization
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    ; deviance and crime
    Interaction, groups, and organizations
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Inequalities of social class
    Inequalities of race and ethnicity
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Inequalities of gender
    The economy
    The political order
    Marriage and family

English rhetoric

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Reading and writing in college
    The reading process
    Reading critically
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The writing process
    Preparing to write
    Writing effectively
    Revising and editing
    Describing
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Narrating
    Illustrating
    Analyzing a process
    Comparing and contrasting
    Dividing and classifying
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Defining
    Analyzing causes and effects
    Arguing
    Recognizing a research paper
    Avoiding plagiarism
    Finding sources
    Writing a research paper
    Documenting sources
    Introduction
    Subjects and verbs
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fragments
    Fused sentences and comma splices
    Regular and irregular verbs
    Verb tense
    Subject-verb
    More on verbs
    Pronoun problems
    Pronoun reference and point of view
    Pronoun agreement
    Adjectives
    Adverbs
    Modifier errors
    End punctuation
    Commas
    Apostrophes
    Quotation marks
    Other punctuation marks
    Capitalization
    Abbreviations and numbers
    Varying sentence structure
    Parallelism
    Combining sentences
    Standard and nonstandard english
    Easily confused words
    Spelling

Essentials of General psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The science of psychology.
    How psychologists do research.
    Evolution, genes, and behavior.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Neurons, hormones, and the brain.
    Body rhythms and mental states.
    Sensation and perception.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Learning and conditioning.
    Behavior in social and cultural context.
    Thinking and intelligence.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Memory.
    Emotion.
    Motivation.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Theories of personality.
    Development over the lifespan.
    Health, stress and coping.
    Psychological disorders.
    Approaches to treatment and therapy.

Introduction to world history

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    One:
    Two: out of the mud: farming and herding after the ice age
    Three: the great river valleys: accelerating change and developing states
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Four:
    Five: rebuilding the world: recoveries, new initiatives, and their limits
    Six: the great schools
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Seven: the great empires
    Chaptereight:postimperial worlds: problems of empires in eurasia and africa, ca. 200 c.e. to ca. 700 c.e.
    Nine: the rise of world religions: christianity, islam, and buddhism
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Ten: remaking the world: innovation and renewal on environmental frontiers in the late first millennium
    Chaptereleven:
    Chaptertweleve:the nomadic frontiers: the islamic world, byzantium, and china ca. 10001200
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Chapterthirteen: the world the mongols made
    Chapterfourteen: the revenge of nature: plague, cold, and the limits of disaster in the fourteenth century
    Chapterfifthteen:
    Chaptersixteen: imperial arenas: new empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
    Chapterseventeen: the ecological revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
    Chaptereighteen:mental revolutions: religion and science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
    Chapternineteen:
    Chaptertwenty: driven by growth: the global economy in the eighteenth century
    Chaptertwentyone:
    Twentytwo: the exchange of enlightenment: eighteenth-century thought
    Twentythree: replacing muscle: the energy revolutions

Introduction to economics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Economics: foundations and models
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Firms, the stock market, and corporate governance

Introduction to English Linguistics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Pragmatics.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Semantics.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Syntax.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Morphology.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Phonology.
    Language variation.

Introduction to English Grammar

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction.
    Varieties of english.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The morphology of english.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Form-class words.
    Structure-class words.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Phrases.
    Five basic sentence types.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Basic sentence transformations.
    Finite verb clauses, part i: adverbial and adjectival clauses.
    Finite verb clauses, part ii: nominal clauses.
    Nonfinite verb phrases, part i: infinitive phrases.
    Nonfinite verb phrases, part ii: participle and gerund phrases.

Introduction to English Literature

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Literature and the writing process.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Growing up/growing older.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Women and men.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Money and work.
    Peace and war.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Varieties of protest.
    How fiction works.
    How poetry works .
    How drama works.

Introduction to Theatre

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The impulse to perform
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Theatre and society
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The playwright and rsquo;s vision
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The art of the actor
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The director

Fundamentals of Fiction

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    James baldwin, -sonny's blues-
    John barth, -lost in the funhouse-
    Ambrose bierce, -an occurrence at owl creek bridge-
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Jorge luis borges, -the garden of forking paths- new
    Elizabeth bowen, -the demon lover-
    Albert camus, -the guest-
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Raymond carver, -call if you need me-
    Kate chopin, -the storm-
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Sandra cisneros, -the house on mango street-
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Joseph conrad, -the secret sharer-
    Tom drury, -chemistry-
    William faulkner, -a rose for emily-

Introduction to Poetry

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Reading a poem.
    Listening to a voice.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Words.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Saying and suggesting.
    Imagery.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Figures of speech.
    Song.
    Sound.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Rhythm.
    Closed form.
    Open form.
    Symbol.
    Myth and narrative.