Self-discipline is essential to success. Study guides, audio and videotapes are provided. Textbooks are additional and available from Ned's Bookstore. The assignments are logged and then forwarded to the instructor for grading. The graded assignment is returned to the Distance Education office where the grade is logged, then the assignment is sent back to the student.
Most courses require a proctored mid-term and final exam.
Students have six months to complete the course. An introduction to the techniques of critical reading with equal emphasis on prose fiction, poetry and drama. Students will have the opportunity to evaluate and analyze numerous well-known works. Principles, theories and methods evolving from the scientific analysis of behavior. Basic sociological concepts are used to analyze aspects of American society in intergroup relations, rural and urban communities, social classes, educational, governmental and economic institutions.