| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|
| BA101 | Introduction to Business This introductory course provides students with a practical and concrete explanation of the concepts of business. Concepts, principles, and operations of the private enterprise system are identified in this course. Students compare and contrast sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations, and they learn the advantages and disadvantages of each. This course also discusses the functions of modern business management, marketing, and ethics and social responsibility. Human resource management is described as well as how employers can motivate their employees. Bookkeeping, accounting, financial management, and financial statements are also examined. | 3 |
| BA250 | Personal Finance This introductory course provides the student with a basic understanding of personal financial planning. The course is designed to help students understand how to plan for a successful financial future for themselves and their families. The course offers a comprehensive treatment of financial planning to help students understand the complexities of today's financial world and evaluate their financial options through a formal decision-making approach. | 3 |
| CA499 | Professional Strategies Professional Strategies is designed as a senior-level capstone course to be taken at the end of the Multidisciplinary Studies program. This capstone course provides an opportunity for students to synthesize and articulate their undergraduate experience by demonstrating knowledge and skills acquired in previous coursework and/or work experience. Professional Studies reviews the fundamentals of research and the utilization of these skills in a professional environment. The course will require two research papers whose topics must be approved by the course instructor. | 3 |
| CS101 | CompConcepts and Office Apps Students explore the fundamentals of Microsoft Office 2010 including a broad understanding of the theories behind the applications. Students gain skills in Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft Access 2010 and Microsoft
PowerPoint 2010. Students achieve an appreciation for the application of these tools and develop a skill set in using the applications. | 4 |
| EN101 | English Composition I This course develops written communication skills with emphasis on understanding the writing process, analyzing readings and practicing writing for personal and professional applications. | 3 |
| EN102 | English Composition II This is a freshman college-level writing course designed to build on skills learned in EN101. The student is expected to complete writing assignments that spring from assigned reading material, which clearly evince an awareness of social issues. Upon successful completion of EN102, students should be competent in reading, reflecting on, and responding to literature using scholarly analysis, organizing clear and effective writing with a thesis statement, anticipating bias by viewing all sides of an issue, performing effective research using library resources, monitoring tone and using appropriate argumentative skills when pursuing a thesis, using MLA formatting guidelines for research papers, and avoiding plagiarism with careful documentation. | 3 |
| EN361 | Technical Writing This course teaches the skills needed to produce such forms as memos, informal reports, proposals, and letters of applications. The course starts with theory and proceeds to skills and applications. Some of the topics studied include the Technical Writing Process, Research, Summarizing, Outlining, and Formatting of various reports. Your knowledge of the subject matter will be evaluated through objective tests, and your writing skills will be evaluated by your performance on writing assignments. | 3 |
| GP210 | American Government I This undergraduate course provides an introduction to American government and politics. Topics include the concept of a constitutional democracy, federalism, first amendment rights, equal rights under the law, political culture, political ideology, interest groups, lobbying, and political campaigns and elections. | 3 |
| GU100 | Student Success This required one-credit hour course introduces Grantham students to various strategies for learning and helps develop skills essential for succeeding in an online education program. Students complete selfassessments to become familiar with their learning styles and how to use their learning styles in online studies. Students successfully completing this course are more proficient in time management, reading skills, writing techniques, memory abilities, and test-taking strategies. Students learn how to navigate within Grantham University's online course learning environment, submit assignments, and where to go for academic assistance. GU100 is normally taken with level 100 or 200 courses that offer the most common challenges in working in an online learning environment. Students complete assignments in both courses simultaneously as a learning strategy for general education and entry-level knowledge acquisition while developing successful online study skills. Successful completion of G | 1 |
| HU260 | Strategies for Decision Making This course is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, and overcome them. Learn how to translate more effective thinking into better decisions, less frustration, more wealth - and above all, greater confidence to pursue and achieve your most important goals in life. | 3 |
| MA105 | College Algebra An introductory level course on the fundamental concepts of algebra. Topics include equations, polynomial and rational functions and graphing, and exponential and logarithmic functions. | 3 |
| PA301 | Intro to Public Administration Public administration is a broad-ranging and amorphous combination of theory and practice; its purpose is to promote a superior understanding of government and its relationship with the society it governs, as well as to encourage public policies more responsive to social needs and to institute managerial practices attuned to effectiveness, efficiency, and human requirements of the citizenry. | 3 |
| PL401 | Philosophy of Sci & Technology This course provides an introduction to philosophy and its relationship to technology. An anthology of scholarly and popular articles explores the positive, negative, ethical and unethical issues faced by society as technology changes the world that we live in - on a personal, national, and international level. Interactive activities encourage the student to think critically, analytically, and creatively, and challenge him/her to develop new ideas and map solutions to current technological and sociological issues. Topics include ethics and technology, history of technology, energy, ecology, population, health and technology, technology and the Third World, and technology of the future. | 3 |
| Program and core: | 38 |
| Electives (28): | 84 |
| Total: | 122 |
