Art, History, Music, Philosophy & Political Science
The follow online classes, managed by the School of Distance Education, are offered in interactive online asynchronous and self-paced formats.
Description: Presents the elements of visual language and studies them in relationship to images of famous paintings, sculptures, and contemporary advertisements. Does not duplicate an art history course.
Format(s) Available: Self-Paced Open Learning (section 901); Interactive Term-based (section 999)
Cost: online campus tuition, main campus tuition, (additional costs for books and fees)
Tech Requirements: Latest version of Chrome or Mozilla browser. Check computer requirements.
Description: Survey of the development of major world civilizations to the eighteenth century, including the origins and history of ideas, worldviews, and institutions (Stoicism, Hinduism, Catholicism, etc.), with an emphasis on the interaction of cultures in the premodern world.
Format(s) Available: Interactive Online (section 999), Self-Paced Open Learning (section 901), Interactive Term-based (section 999)
Cost: online campus tuition, main campus tuition, (additional costs for books and fees)
Tech Requirements: Latest version of Chrome or Mozilla browser. Check computer requirements.
Description: Survey of the development of world civilizations from the eighteenth century, including the origins and history of ideas, worldviews, and institutions (nationalism, anti-Semitism, racism, multiculturalism, etc.), with emphasis on cultural diversity and interaction and their meaning in the modern and post-modern world.
Format(s) Available: Self-Paced Open Learning (section 901), Interactive Term-based (section 999)
Cost: online campus tuition, main campus tuition, (additional costs for books and fees)
Tech Requirements: Latest version of Chrome or Mozilla browser. Check computer requirements.
Description: A study of the rise and development of the United States from European contact with the Americas through the Civil War. Emphasis placed on cultural, religious, ethnic, and other social issues as well as politics, economics, and foreign relations.
Format(s) Available: Self-Paced Open Learning (section 901), Interactive Term-based (section 999)
Cost: online campus tuition, main campus tuition, (additional costs for books and fees)
Tech Requirements: Latest version of Chrome or Mozilla browser. Check computer requirements.
Description: A study of the development of the United States from Reconstruction to the present. Emphasis placed on cultural, religious, ethnic, and other social issues as well as politics, economics, and foreign relations.
Format(s) Available: Self-Paced Open Learning (section 901), Interactive Term-based (section 999)
Cost: online campus tuition, main campus tuition, (additional costs for books and fees)
Tech Requirements: Latest version of Chrome or Mozilla browser. Check computer requirements.
Description: Surveys the internal and external developments and conflicts which Christianity has experienced from the time of Christ up to the Reformation. Special attention given to those developments that relate to Seventh-day Adventist theological heritage.
Prerequisites: HIST 117 or permission of instructor. Not applicable to the General Education requiremnts in religion nor a major in religion.
Format(s) Available: Self-Paced Open Learning (section 901), Interactive Term-based (section 999)
Cost: online campus tuition, main campus tuition, (additional costs for books and fees)
Tech Requirements: Latest version of Chrome or Mozilla browser. Check computer requirements.
Description: Surveys the history of the church from the Protestant Reformation to the current time. Special attention is given to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic counter-reformation, Puritanism, Rationalism, Evangelicalism, the rise of modern denominations, and worldwide mission expansion and ecumenism.
Prerequisites: HIST 118 or permission of instructor
Format(s) Available: Self-Paced Open Learning (section 901), Interactive Term-based (section 999)
Cost: online campus tuition, main campus tuition, (additional costs for books and fees)
Tech Requirements: Latest version of Chrome or Mozilla browser. Check computer requirements.
Description: A study of the background and development of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination from its beginnings in the Millerite Movement to its present global impact.
Format(s) Available: Self-Paced Open Learning (section 901), Interactive Term-based (section 999)
Cost: online campus tuition, main campus tuition, (additional costs for books and fees)
Tech Requirements: Latest version of Chrome or Mozilla browser. Check computer requirements.
Description: An opportunity to acquire a better appreciation of classical music —to discover how church music, folk songs, jazz, spirituals, gospel, rock and roll, and pop music fit into the broad spectrum of classical music from 1000 A.D. to the present day.
Format(s) Available: Self-Paced Open Learning (section 901); Interactive Term-based (section 999)
Cost: online campus tuition, main campus tuition, (additional costs for books and fees)
Tech Requirements: Latest version of Chrome or Mozilla browser. Check computer requirements.
Description: A study of American political institutions and behavior, primarily on the national level. May be applied to the history major.
Format(s) Available: Self-Paced Open Learning (section 901), Interactive Term-based (section 999)
Cost: online campus tuition, main campus tuition, (additional costs for books and fees)
Tech Requirements: Latest version of Chrome or Mozilla browser. Check computer requirements.
Description: An introduction to basic philosophical issues, including the relationship of faith and reason, epistemology, the mind-body problem, determinism and free will, and ethics.
Format(s) Available: Self-Paced Open Learning (section 901), Interactive Term-based (section 999)
Cost: online campus tuition, main campus tuition, (additional costs for books and fees)
Tech Requirements: Latest version of Chrome or Mozilla browser. Check computer requirements.
