Courses

This course is an English preparatory course focusing on the skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exposition, analysis, and argumentation. It also covers reading comprehension. This course was designed to prepare students to be successful in College Composition I courses.

This course consists of videos, interactive discussions with peers and instructors, readings, and quizzes. Students can earn a badge for achieving at least 75% on the final test.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure:

• Module 1: Sentence Sense
• Module 2: Essay Emphasis
• Module 3: Reading Readiness
• Module 4: Rules for Research

This course is designed to help students succeed in college-level math classes. It helps students diagnose their weaknesses and strengths in math and enhance foundational knowledge for college-level math classes. It also teaches students skills to apply math to real-world problems.

This course consists of videos, interactive materials, readings, and quizzes. Students can earn a Certificate of Completion for achieving at least 75% on the Post-Test quiz.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure:

• Module 1: Use of the TI-84 Calculator
• Module 2: Fractions
• Module 3: Algebraic Manipulations
• Module 4: Solving Linear Equations
• Module 5: Factoring
• Module 6: Probability

This course introduces students to academic, life and development skills necessary for their success. Students taking this course will develop an awareness of themselves as learners, learn effective study behaviors, strategies, and habits, and establish a realistic plan for college success. It will also introduce students to university academic standards, codes, policies, and procedures.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure

• Module 1: Mindset/Motivation
• Module 2: Utilizing Time Wisely
• Module 3: Learning How to Learn
• Module 4: Test-Taking/Test-Anxiety
• Module 5: Academic Integrity
• Module 6: Matching Major to Career
• Module 7: Leveraging Resources

This course is designed to introduce the field of engineering, foster career exploration in various engineering fields, and enhance analytical skills to assess engineering concepts. The course material also highlights the trending engineering industries in the state of Georgia. Students will be empowered to make informed engineering career decisions and apply engineering principles to real-world challenges, regardless of their prior engineering knowledge.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure:

• Module 1: Fields of Specialty
• Module 2: Energy of the future
• Module 3: Advanced Manufacturing
• Module 4: Healthcare Technologies and Medical Devices
• Module 5: Space Exploration
• Module 6: Projects

This certificate course focuses on the basics of health and wellness. Students will enhance their knowledge and skills in holistic health and wellness so they can live healthier and longer lives. Needs assessments in health will be completed weekly by students so they can become aware of their present status and reflect on possible future changes. Wellness interventions and strategies for making positive individual behavior changes will be addressed to promote overall wellness growth.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure:

• Module 1: Foundations of Health and Wellness
• Module 2: Physical Wellness
• Module 3: Emotional Wellness
• Module 4: Intellectual Wellness
• Module 5: Occupational and Financial Wellness
• Module 6: Spiritual Wellness
• Module 7: Social Wellness
• Module 8: Forming Preventive Habits and Your Wellness Plan

This course presents a basic introduction to data science and analytics. Discover what data science is, what data scientists do, and why data science is important in the modern world. Learn about techniques used by data scientists to collect, summarize, visualize and draw conclusions from data. Topics for exploration include data types, data sources, data cleaning, Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), data visualization, machine learning concepts, Big Data concepts, and ethical/legal issues surrounding the use of data. Programming experience or mathematical expertise is not required for this course.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure:

• Module 1: What is Data Science?
• Module 2: Data Basics and Technology
• Module 3: Data Sources and Cleaning
• Module 4: Exploratory Data Analysis/Basic Statistics
• Module 5: Data Visualization
• Module 6: Machine Learning
• Module 7: Big Data
• Module 8: Ethical, Privacy, and Legal Considerations

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure:

• Module 1: Introduction to the eCampus Library
• Module 2: Evaluating Resources
• Module 3: GALILEO Searching & Advanced Searching
• Module 4: Subject Specific Databases & Topic Refinement
• Module 5: Citing Sources, Ethical Use of Information, & Citation Tools
• Module 6: How to Read & Analyze a Scholarly Article
• Module 7: Final Assignment, The Annotated Bibliography

Economics studies how we allocate resources, which are limited, to satisfy wants and needs, which are unlimited. In fact, the existence of limited resources and unlimited way of using those resources is called the economic problem.

This Macroeconomics course includes interactive audio-visual content, discussions, and quizzes. It covers Macroeconomics content which is typically covered in an undergraduate semester course of Macroeconomics.

Students can earn a Certificate of Completion for achieving at least 75% on the Post-Test quiz.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure:

• Module 1: Basic Economic Concepts
• Module 2: Supply and Demand
• Module 3: Measurement of Economic Performance
• Module 4: National Income and Price Determination
• Module 5: Financial Sector
• Module 6: Fiscal and Monetary Policy
• Module 7: Economic Growth and Productivity
• Module 8: Open Economy: International Trade and Finance

This course not only gives learners an understanding of the functions of contracts in American business law but also touches the history and sources of American law, legal systems and procedures, agency and employment, sales, and other topics. The knowledge from this course is practically important if you will run your own business or deal with legal system in the course of your career.

This course consists of videos, interactive materials, readings, and quizzes. Students can earn a Certificate of Completion for achieving at least 75% on the Post-Test quiz.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced

Course Structure:

• Module 1: History and Source of American Law/Constitutional Law
• Module 2: American Legal Systems and Procedures
• Module 3: Contract I
• Module 4: Contract II
• Module 5: Legal Environment I
• Module 6: Legal Environment II
• Module 7: Torts
• Module 8: Agency, Partnerships, Corporations, and Sales

This course provides students with an introduction to the fundamentals of Spanish grammar, with emphasis on the development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. This course is ideal not only for students who took Spanish a long time ago but also for students who are beginners to the Spanish language.

The subject experts who developed this course are aware that listening and speaking are the most difficult skills for a foreign language learner. In order to overcome this challenge and to fully develop students' language skills in the four key areas, they designed this unique course featured with daily lessons to keep students practicing the language every day, short dialogues with break-down audios for students to master the conversations, and small knowledge chunks accompanied with sufficient exercises for reinforcement

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Syllabus

• Getting to Know People
• Talking with Others, Asking Questions, and Telling Time
• Let's Get to Know Each Other
• Food, Ownership, and Preferences
• Going Places, Leisure Activities, Requests, and Preferences
• Talking about pastimes, weekend activities, and sports
• What People are Doing Right Now and Describing Temporary/Permanent Conditions
• Going on Vacation, Knowing Persons, Places, and Things, and Using Direct Objects

This course is concerned with the role of marketing in society and within a firm, understanding consumer and organizational markets, marketing strategy planning, the marketing mix, and social media marketing, etc.. It will equip you with helpful tools and strategies to analyze the status of your product on the market and make marketing decisions.

This course consists of videos, interactive discussions with peers and instructors, readings, and quizzes. Students can earn a Certificate of Completion for achieving at least 75% on the final assignment and the final test.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure

• Module 1: Overview of Marketing
• Module 2: The 4Ps- Product, Price, Place, Promotion
• Module 3: Consumer Behavior
• Module 4: Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning
• Module 5: Integrated Marketing Communications
• Module 6: Social Media Marketing

This course is designed for complete beginners, those who have never before played guitar. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of guitar. Topics covered include chords, scales, and reading music. In addition, you will learn musical terminology and basic music theory.

Students can earn a Certificate of Completion for achieving at least 75% on the final assignment.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure

• Lesson 1: First String Notation & E, Em, E7 Chords
• Lesson 2: 2nd String & G, C, D Chords
• Lesson 3: 3rd String, E, Em, E7 Chords, & Pentatonic Scale
• Lesson 4: 4th String, A, A7, B7 Chords, & Blues Scale
• Lesson 5: 5th String, C7 and G7 Chords, & Major Scale
• Lesson 6: 6th String, F, Fm, F7, Gm Chords. & Scales Review
• Lesson 7: Natural Minor Scale & B, Bm, Cm Chords
• Lesson 8: The Final Review

The financial services industries are changing rapidly with the emergence of financial technology (FinTech). The objective of the course is to provide students with an overview of FinTech and introductions to its applications in financial services, such as commercial and investment banking, digital investing, and secure payments.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure

• Module 1: Introduction to FinTech
• Module 2: Money
• Module 3: Banking
• Module 4: Payment Systems and Payment Processing
• Module 5: Cybersecurity
• Module 6: The Future of FinTech

Students will experience a rich connection to French language and culture with a special emphasis on Francophone perspectives and insights. Students will explore the fullness of French as it is spoken throughout the world (also known as la Francophonie) and become connected to popular and more well-known aspects of French. This course will provide an engaging and carefully curated set of experiences on reading, writing, listening.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure

• Module 1: Introduction to Francophonie
• Module 2: The French Alphabet, Accents, & Spelling
• Module 3: Numbers, Counting, and Telling Time
• Module 4: Beginning Verb Conjugation
• Module 5: Friends and Family Possessive Adjectives
• Module 6: Food
• Module 7: Travel

The course introduces the structure and function of the human body. You will read about the cells, tissues and membranes that make up our bodies and how our major systems function to help us develop and stay healthy. If you plan to take the Anatomy & Physiology college-credit course for life science and allied health majors in this future, this course is ideal for you to give yourself a head-start and provide you with foundational knowledge to get ready for your class.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure

• Module 1: Studying techniques, levels of biological organization, homeostasis and feedback systems
• Module 2: A & P terminology
• Module 3: Anatomical position and regional terms, body cavities, and membranes
• Module 4: Basic chemistry
• Module 5: Macromolecules
• Module 6: Proteins, cell membrane and the transport process
• Module 7: Structure and function relationship

You will compare and contrast the characteristics of health and the characteristics of disease as related to the human body; Identify and define basic terminology related to the study of pathophysiology; Understand the basic normal human anatomy and physiology; Describe the pathophysiologic changes that occur in common diseases.

This course is oriented toward students in healthcare related majors who will take the college-credit Pathophysiology course in a future semester and would like to have a preview or build some foundations before that. However, students from all other majors will benefit from the knowledge provided by the course.

Students can earn a Certificate of Completion for achieving at least 75% in the course.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure

• Week 1: Introduction to Pathophysiology
• Week 2: Terminology
• Week 3: Cardiac System
• Week 4: Respiratory System
• Week 5: Renal System
• Week 6: Endocrine System
• Week 7: Gastrointestinal System

You will learn to explain derivation of medical terms; Recognize medical word roots, prefixes, and suffixes; Identify prefixes of position, color, numbers and measurement, negation, and direction; Formulate medical terms combining roots, prefixes, and suffixes; Interpret basic medical abbreviations and symbols; Utilize diagnostic, surgical, procedural terms, and abbreviations.

This course is oriented toward students in healthcare related majors who will take the college-credit Medical Terminology course in a future semester and would like to have a preview or build some foundations before that. However, students from all other majors will benefit from the knowledge provided by the course.

Students can earn a Certificate of Completion for achieving at least 75% in the course.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure

• Module 1
  • Lesson 1: Introduction to Medical Terminology
  • Lesson 2: Sensory Systems
  • Lesson 3: Integumentary System
  • Lesson 4: Skeletal System
  • Lesson 5: Muscular System
• Module 2
  • Lesson 1: Nervous System
  • Lesson 2: Cardiovascular System
  • Lesson 3: Blood Vessels and Blood
  • Lesson 4: Lymphatic and Immune Systems
• Module 3
  • Lesson 1: Respiratory System
  • Lesson 2: Digestive System
  • Lesson 3: Endocrine System
  • Lesson 4: Urinary System
• Module 4
  • Lesson 1: Male Reproductive System
  • Lesson 2: Female Reproductive System
  • Lesson 3: Obstetrics

Students will learn to calculate medications appropriately and demonstrate solving medication problems using dimensional analysis. It improves students' ability to deliver safe medication by showing competency in medication calculation using algebra to solve word problems.

This course is oriented toward students in healthcare related majors who will take the college-credit Medical Mathematics course in a future semester and would like to have a preview or build some foundations before that. However, students from all other majors will benefit from the knowledge provided by the course.

Students can earn a Certificate of Completion for achieving at least 75% in the course.

Course Details

• Duration: 16 weeks
• Instruction Method: Self-paced
  

Course Structure

• Module 1: Medication Calculations and Introduction to Basic Math
• Module 2: Medication Safety and Administration
• Module 3: Medication Dosage and Administration using Dimensional Analysis
• Module 4: Medication Dosage using Body Weight and Body Surface Area