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Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor's Degree or equiv. international education

Credit Hours

60 Hours

Course Duration

1 Year (Self-Paced)

Courses Offered

10

Courses Offered In MASTERS DEGREE

  • Courses Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Sociology

  • Sociology is a comprehensive course that offers you a global perspective to help you better understand your own lives, provides strong focus on social diversity that allows you to see the impact of race, class, and gender, and focuses

  • 6 Credits

  • Economics

  • This Economics course engages you with familiar real-world examples and applications that bring economics to life. The course explains you with easy-to-understand concepts that how economics is a part of your everyday life, and how it can be a useful tool in making personal decisions and evaluating policy decisions. 

  • 6 Credits

  • English Literature

  • English Literature course is an introduction to reading and writing, it’s founded on the principles of writing about literature. This course emphasizes literature, critical thinking, and the writing process. You learn how thinking, reading, and writing relate to one another by studying poetry, fiction, drama, art, music, and film.

  • 6 Credits

  • Mass Communication

  • This course retains the emphasis on the challenges of today's media while building on its extensive coverage of media history, effects, technology, and culture. The five part-organization-the media, media channels, media messages, media effects and media issues-provides a framework for you to understand the big picture behind today's media issues.

  • 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

  • Advanced Composition

  • Advanced Composition approaches the study of writing with focus on audience, authorial voice, and style. It emphasizes the writing process and rhetorical concerns and principles (matters, for example, of genre, context, and intention) which govern that process. Primary purpose of course is to develop the skills of already strong writers.

  • 6 Credits

  • Fiction and Poetry

  • This course is an introduction to some of the major genres of fiction, poetry, and drama. Course provides an in-depth analysis and details about what are fiction, poetry and drama; how these three are envisioned and written. Critical theory of literature also helps you to better understand these literary concepts.

  • 6 Credits

  • Women in Literature

  • This course presents the full diversity of literature on women's issues and experiences, exploring their similarities as well as their interconnected differences. Course critically analyzes the wave of women in literature, in-depth analysis of feminist literature provides you with better understanding of this genre of literature.

  • 6 Credits

  • Advanced Concepts in English Linguistics

  • This student-friendly and well-balanced course of the field of introductory linguistics pays special attention to linguistic anthropology and reveals the main contributions of linguistics to the study of human communication and how issues of culture are relevant. Language, language acquisition and non-verbal behavior is thoroughly analyzed.

  • 6 Credits

  • Literature and Writing

  • With engaging selections, a strong emphasis on the writing process, and a visually appealing design, this thematically arranged literature course is sure to capture your attention. Course details the elements of literature and writing, the critical thinking process involved and how to use secondary sources for research writing.

  • 6 Credits
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Sociology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The sociological perspective
    Sociological investigation
    Culture
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Society
    Socialization
    Social interaction in everyday life
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Groups and organizations
    Sexuality and society
    Deviance
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Social stratification
    Social class in the united states
    Global stratification
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Gender stratification
    Race and ethnicity
    Aging and the elderly
    The economy and work
    Politics and government
    Families
    Religion
    Education
    Health and medicine
    Population, urbanization, and the environment
    Collective behavior and social movements
    Social change: traditional, modern, and postmodern societies

Economics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The economic perspective.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Production and trade.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Demand and supply.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The power of prices.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Measuring national output.

English literature

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fiction: an overview.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Structure: the organization of stories.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Characters: the people in fiction.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Point of view: the position or stance of the works narrator or speaker.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Setting: the background of place, objects, and culture in stories.
    Tone and style: the words that convey attitudes in fiction.
    Symbolism and allegory: keys to extended meaning.
    Idea or theme: the meaning and the message in fiction.
    Six stories for additional enjoyment and study.
    Meeting poetry: an overview.

Mass communication

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Mass media literacy
    Books
    Newspapers
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Magazines
    Sound recording
    Movies
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Radio
    Television
    Internet
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    News
    Public relations
    Advertising
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Entertainment
    Research
    Mass communication
    Mass media effects
    Mass media and society
    Global mass media
    Mass media and governance
    Law
    Ethics
    Visual messages
    Media and political systems

World History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    From human prehistory to the rise of agriculture
    Early civilization
    Nomadic societies
    Classical civilization: china
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Classical civilization: india
    Classical civilization in the mediterranean: persia, greece and rome
    The classical period: directions, diversities, and declines by 500 c.e.
    The rise of islam: civilization in the middle east
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    India and southeast asia under the impact of islam
    Africa and islam
    East european civilization: byzantium and russia
    Western civilization: the middle ages
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The spread of east asian civilization
    Centers of civilization in the americas
    The mongol interlude and the end of the postclassical period
    The west and the world: discovery, colonization, and trade
    Western civilization changes shape in the early modern centuries
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The rise of eastern europe
    The ottoman and mughal empires
    East asia: vital trends in politics and trade
    The first industrial revolution: western society, 17801914
    World economy and western imperialism: africa and south asia
    The settler societies: the west on frontiers
    The development of latin american civilization
    The middle east and china in the imperialist century
    Russia and japan: industrialization outside the west
    World war i and the end of an era
    The west in the contemporary period
    Eastern european civilization
    East asia in the 20th- 22nd centuries
    India and southeast asia

Advanced Composition

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The reader as writer
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Literature and argument
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Reading literature closely: explication
    Reading literature closely: analysis
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Arguing an interpretation
    Arguing an evaluation
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Critical thinking: arguing with oneself, asking questions and making comparisons
    Reading and writing about essays
    Reading and writing about stories
    Writing arguments about short stories: two case studies
    Reading and writing about plays

Fiction and Poetry

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Reading stories
    Writing about fiction
    A selection of contemporary fiction
    A selection of world fiction
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Types of poetry
    Elements of poetry
    Transformations
    Three poets in context
    A selection of contemporary poetry
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    For further reading
    Lives of the poets
    Reading plays
    Types of drama
    Elements of drama
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The greek theater: sophocles in context
    The elizabethan theater: shakespeare in context
    The modern realistic theater: ibsen in context
    Envisioning drama: miller and williams in performance
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    A collection of modern and contemporary drama
    Writing with sources

Women in Literature

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Oppression, marilyn frye
    White privilege and male privilege, peggy mcintosh
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    *frontlines and borders: identity thresholds for latinas and arab american women, laura m. lopez and frances s. hasso
    Where i come from is like this, paula gunn allen
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house, audre lorde
    -night to his day-: the social construction of gender, judith lorber
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The medical construction of gender, suzanne kessler
    *theorizing difference from multiracial feminism, maxine baca zinn and bonnie thornton dill
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    *feminism without borders, chandra talpade mohanty
    *masculinities and globalization, r. w. connell
    Gender stereotyping in the english language, laurel richardson

Advanced concepts in English Linguistics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The nature of communication.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The phonological component: phonetics.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The phonological component: phonology.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The morphological component.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Syntax.
    Semantics and pragmatics.
    Sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology.
    Language acquisition.
    Sign language.
    Writing.
    Nonverbal behavior.
    Historical linguistics.

Literature and Writing

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Participation: personal response and critical thinking
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Communication: writing a response essay
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Exploration and analysis: genre and the elements of literature
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Argumentation: writing a critical essay
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Research: writing with secondary sources