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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 History

  • A true exploration of world history, course emphasizes single theme origins, cities, empires, religion, trade, migrations, revolutions, and technology. Geographically, it covers entire globe, though specific topics place greater emphasis on specific regions. It addresses how historians form, debate, and revises our historical understanding of the world.

  • 6 Credits

  • World History I

  • The primary goal of this course is to present a truly global history—since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. This course text emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies, while also assessing the development of major societies.

  • 6 Credits

  • Greek History

  • This course presents complete picture of Greek civilization as a history. It features sections on art, architecture, literature, and thought of each period. This comprehensive, balanced treatment of ancient Greece covers its history from prehistoric through Mycenaean Period, Dark Ages, Classical Period, Hellenistic, and absorption of Greek culture by Rome.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Holocaust Studies

  • This course presents a straightforward, matter-of-fact analysis of encounter between Third Reich and the Jews. This course also clarifies basic facts and explores possible reasons why 5.8 million European Jews died. As with murder investigation, course sifts evidence relating to motives, means and opportunities for the killing of European Jewry.

  • 6 Credits

  • American History

  • The political history of United States is intimately tied with its social, economic and cultural development. This course explores this relationship and shows how it took voices and actions of many peoples to produce this singular political structure - The United States of America.

  • 6 Credits

  • Western Civilization I

  • This course provides an exceptionally balanced survey of political, social, and cultural development of Western civilization-its strengths and weaknesses, and controversies surrounding it. From Birth of civilization to the new directions in thought and culture in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries all are covered in this course.

  • 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 History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The dry bones speak.
    From village community to city-state.
    Rivervalley civilizations.
    A polycentric world.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Dawn of the empires.
    Rome and the barbarians.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    China.
    Indian empires.
    Hinduism and buddhism.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Judaism and christianity.
    Islam.
    Establishing world trade routes.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    European visions.
    The unification of world trade.
    Migration.
    Political revolutions in europe and the americas.
    The industrial revolution.
    Nationalism, imperialism, and resistance.
    Methods of mass production and destruction.
    World war ii and the cold war.
    Cold war and new nations.
    China and india.
    New public identities.
    Regional identities and the twenty-first century.

World History I

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The neolithic revolution and the birth of civilization
    The rise of civilization in the middle east and africa
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
    
    Classical civilization in the eastern mediterranean: persia and greece
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Religious rivalries and india and rsquo;s golden age
    Rome and its empire
    The peoples and civilizations of the americas
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The spread of civilizations and the movement of peoples
    The end of the classical era: world history in transition, 200700 c.e.
    The first global civilization: the rise and spread of islam
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Abbasid decline and the spread of islamic civilization to south and southeast asia
    African civilizations and the spread of islam
    Civilization in eastern europe: byzantium and orthodox europe
    A new civilization emerges in western europe
    The americas on the eve of invasion
    Reunification and renaissance in chinese civilization: the era of the tang and song dynasties
    The spread of chinese civilization: japan, korea, and vietnam
    The last great nomadic challenges: from chinggis khan to timur
    The west and the changing world balance
    The world economy
    The transformation of the west, 14501750

Greek History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction: a small, far-off land.
    The foundations of greek life.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The greeks before history: 10,000-700 bc.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Homer.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Religion and myth.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Archaic greece: the age of experiment, 700-480 bc.
    A tale of two archaic cities: sparta and athens, 700-480 bc.
    The peloponnesian war and its aftermath, 431-399 bc.

Introduction to Holocaust Studies

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Studying the holocaust.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The jews.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Hitler, nazis, germans and jews.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     1933-41 - a twisted road?
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Responding to persecution.
    The transition to killing.
    Responding to murder.
    Humanity, modernity, and the holocaust.

American History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Alien encounters: europe in the americas
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    American society in the making
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    America in the british empire
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The american revolution
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The federalist era: nationalism triumphant
    Jeffersonian democracy

Western Civilization I

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The birth of civilization.
    The rise of greek civilization.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Classical and hellenistic greece.
    Rome: from republic to empire.
    The roman empire.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The early middle ages: creating a new european society and culture -476-1000-.
    The high middle ages: the rise of european empires and states -1000-1300-.
    Medieval society: hierarchies, towns, universities, and families -1000-1300-.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The late middle ages: social and political breakdown -1300-1527-.
    Renaissance and discovery.
    The age of reformation.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The age of religious wars.
    Paths to constitutionalism and absolutism: england and france in the seventeenth century.
    New directions in thought and culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.