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High School Diploma, GED or equiv. International Education
144 Hours
4 Year (Self-Paced) Program
24
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Courses Description
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Introduction to the Humanities
The course explores philosophic and artistic heritage of humanity expressed through a historical perspective on visual arts, music, and literature. Topics include myth, literature, art, music, television, cinema, and the theater. Also discussed are provocative issues in the humanities - religion, morality, happiness, death, freedom, and controversies in the arts.
6 Credits
Social and Cultural Geography
Social and Cultural Geography considers why geography matters to the analysis and understanding social relations, cultural identity and social inequality. Course examines how social life is structured at a variety of scales with respect to ethnicity, industries, services, urban patterns, and resources of world as a whole.
6 Credits
English Composition
English Composition provides you with rhetorical foundations that prepare them for academic and professional writing. You will learn the strategies and processes that successful writers employ as you work to accomplish specific purposes. You will develop skills in writing unified, coherent, well-developed essays using correct grammar and effective sentence structure.
6 Credits
College Algebra
College Algebra provides an overview of the fundamental concepts of algebra: an understanding of the general concepts of relation and function; and the ability to solve practical problems using algebra.
6 Credits
World Religions
World Religions course offers the broadest coverage of world religions as they exist today; helping you understand the ideology behind the many religions that strive today. While it is impossible to cover all religions, it does cover those of the vast majority of people.
6 Credits
Ethics
Evenly balanced between theory and applications, this course shows you how to establish an ethical theory and how to apply it to a range of specific moral issues. This course examines ethical problems in such areas as mercy killing, personal relations, business, sexuality, medicine, and the environment.
6 Credits
Art Appreciation
This course introduces the origins and historical development of art. Emphasis is placed on the relationship of design principles to various art forms including but not limited to sculpture, painting, and architecture. Upon completion, you should be able to identify and analyze a variety of artistic styles, periods, and media.
6 Credits
Pre-Calculus
This course provides the mathematical foundation for an introductory calculus course. In addition to a brief review of basic algebra, the course covers equations and inequalities; functions, models, and graphs; polynomial and rational functions; exponential and logarithmic functions; trigonometric functions; and trigonometric identities and equations.
6 Credits
Human Biology
This course is an introductory study of the human body, including the basic structure and function of the major organ systems (nervous, endocrine, circulatory, reproductive, etc.) and the effects of diet, exercise, stress and environmental change on human health.
6 Credits
World History
World History course present the big picture, to facilitate comparison and assessment of change, and to highlight major developments in world's history. This course emphasizes the global interactions of major civilizations so that you can compare and assess changes in the patterns of interaction and the impact of global forces.
6 Credits
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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