Dual Enrollment Course Information
CCU Academy online dual enrollment course registration is open from Oct 14th - Jan 7th for the Spring 2025 semester.
Through CCU Academy, high school students may complete college-level dual enrollment courses 100% online. Coursework is completed over 15-week blocks during the fall and spring semesters and over 10-week blocks in the summer semester. See the Academic Calendar for details. Instruction will take place in the Brightspace Learning Management System.
The online courses are taught by highly qualified CCU professors who will equip students with the necessary tools and resources they need to engage and succeed during the semester.
Online Courses
While every effort is made to provide accurate and up-to-date information, CCU Academy reserves the right to cancel or change academic offerings without notice.
ART 112A — Art Appreciation
3 Credits
An introduction to the art world and all its aspects: the people who are active in that world, the many kinds of work that are created, the sensations and ideas we receive from those works, and the ways the life of art has transmitted across many times and places.
ART 231A — Photography 1
3 Credits
This course provides an introduction to photography. Emphasis is placed on photography as art.
BIB 111 OA — Old Testament
3 Credits
This course provides an overview of the historical development and fulfillment of God's sovereign plan for both the people and the land of Israel.
BIB 114 OA — New Testament
3 Credits
This course provides the background, content, unity and progression of the New Testament Scriptures. The student will capture an understanding of the life and ministry of Christ, the development of the Church and the unfolding of the New Covenant.
BIO 102A — Introduction to Biological Diversity
3 Credits
This course provides students with the relevant knowledge and critical thinking skills to better understand the living world. Living systems on a cellular, organismal, and ecological level will be studied. From real world examples, students will discover the basic concepts surrounding microbiology and plants, animals and ecology, human anatomy and physiology, as well as theories about their origination.
Registering for this course will require the purchase of an eTextbook payable through the course shell in Brightspace.
Corequisites: BIO-112A
BIO 112A — Introduction to Biological Diversity Lab
1 Credit
This course provides the opportunity to apply knowledge acquired through BIO 102A Biological Diversity in real world situations. Critical thinking skills will be exercised through the application of the scientific method. Worldview, ethical, moral, and spiritual issues related to the course material will also be addressed.
Corequisites: BIO-102A
BUS 105A — Business Fundamentals
3 credits
Overview of functional areas (accounting, finance, management, marketing, and computer information systems) and operating environments common to all business and nonprofit organizations.
COM 110A — Oral Communication
3 credits
This course provides an introduction to principles of communication emphasizing public speaking. Aspects of verbal and nonverbal delivery, speech organization, the effective use of supporting material and presentational aids are addressed. Students give several speeches designed to better equip them for future speaking endeavors.
ECO 220A — Introduction to Economics
3 credits
This course is designed to provide students with the scope and structure of economic principles and their effect on the business enterprise. The distinction between macroeconomics and microeconomics, their relationship to each other and their combined effect on the business sector will be the focus of the course. The student is expected to develop an understanding of the various economic systems, their differences, and the basic elements of a free market economy and the determination of price in a free market economy.
ENG 102 — English Composition
3 credits
In this course, you will learn the effective use of the English language and exploration of rhetorical modes in written composition. A review of structure, purpose, and audience awareness in developing essays is addressed.
ENG 104 OA — Research Writing
3 credits
This course focuses on the development and strengthening skills of effective business and professional communication in both written and oral modes. The course includes heavy emphases on effective research and the process of writing with a particular focus on both academic and business writing. Development of skills in research and writing of formal academic papers: critical thinking, argumentation, and documentation.
When offered
ENG 201 — Introduction to Literature
3 credits
Understand, experience, and evaluate poetry, short fiction, essays, and drama genres, both American and multinational.
ENG 202 — American Literature I
3 credits
Representative stories, poems, and documents in American literature from the Colonial era to the early Republic (1776-1830) through the Romantic-transcendentalist period (1830-1860). Includes readings from multiethnic and women writers.
ENG 204 — British Literature I
3 credits
Surveys the history of literature in Britain until 1800 and representative works by influential writers of the periods contained therein.
HIS 185 — Western Civilization
3 credits
This course focuses on the explicitly Christian character of Western Civilization, and how the cultural, intellectual, and spiritual achievements of the West gave birth to the modern world. This course focuses on the history of its foundational civilizations: ancient Israel, Greece, and Rome. Emphasis is also placed on the development of Western Europe through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation.
HIS 203A — America to 1877
3 credits
This course provides a survey of American history from colonial times through the American Revolution, Articles of Confederation, the Constitutional and Bill of Rights, War of 1812, migration, slavery, and regionalism. The Civil War and Reconstruction is also covered. Special attentional is given to the tension between states' rights and a confederate form of government and a powerful central government.
HIS 204A — America since 1877
3 credits
This course explores the American experience from the Civil War era to the 1970s. It provides a working knowledge of the facts of American history and an understanding of the interplay of forces that created the fabric of modern-American political, social, and cultural life. Lectures, discussion, films, and selected student presentations are methods of engaging the subject matter.
HIS 211A — History of Christianity
3 credits
This course surveys the history of Christianity from its beginnings through the twentieth century. It stresses the highlights of each era. The course stresses church organization and practice. Additionally, the history of theology, doctrine and spirituality, and the impact of Christianity upon society and society upon Christianity are explored.
HUM 229A — C.S. Lewis Film and Literature
3 credits
Students will examine some of the major works of C. S. Lewis to see how this master storyteller and great communicator used story, and particularly metaphor, to communicate the Christian message to a secular world.
MAT 114 — College Algebra
3 credits
Study of equations, inequalities, functions, graphs, exponents, logarithms.
Registering for this course will require the purchase of an eTextbook payable through the course shell in Brightspace.
MAT 115 — Pre-Calculus
3 credits
Study of functions - polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric. Emphasis on representing these functions numerically, graphically, symbolically. A recommended prerequisite course for Calculus I.
Registering for this course will require the purchase of an eTextbook payable through the course shell in Brightspace.
MAT 212 — Statistics and their Application
3 credits
An introduction to statistical analysis as used in various liberal arts disciplines. Descriptive and inferential statistics and attendant research designs will be considered. Students will become familiar with software and its use in analyzing data and decision making.
Registering for this course will require the purchase of an eTextbook payable through the course shell in Brightspace.
PHL 202 — Introduction to Philosophy
3 credits
This course is a survey of many major issues raised over the two-and-a-half millennia of western philosophy. With an emphasis on historical context and development, as well as philosophy’s relationship to Christian thought, this course challenges students to critically explore philosophical questions and introduce them to the great tradition of intellectual inquiry. Special attention will be given to the subjects of truth and knowledge, reality and appearance, mind and body, right and wrong, beauty and the existence of God.
POL 202A — The American Political Process
3 credits
The presidency, Congress, Supreme Court; public bureaucracies, political action groups, public policy analysis, elections, American democratic ideas and reality, and perennial political questions; and current and controversial issues.
PSY 102A — General Psychology
3 credits
This course provides an overview of the field of psychology, including psychological principles, methods, theories, and research broadly applied to various domains within the scope of psychology as a field. Topics from the biological basis of behavior to social applications of psychology are included.
PSY 221A — Interpersonal Relationships
3 credits
This course will examine principles for building and maintaining healthy relationships, including friendships, dating relationships, marriage, and family relationships. Topics will include the exploration of establishing healthy boundaries, communication, conflict management/resolution, and mate selection. Additionally, there will be exploration of personal needs, values and beliefs, and family of origin influences that impact relationships.
SOC 202A — Marriage and Family
3 credits
This course focuses on cultural and biblical perspectives for marriage and family, interpersonal relationships, human sexuality, home management, child and adolescent development, and divorce and remarriage.
THE 200A — Introduction to Systematic Theology
3 credits
This course covers basic issues, themes, and categories of Christian theology.
While every effort is made to provide accurate and up-to-date information, CCU Academy reserves the right to cancel or change academic offerings without notice.