Course Listing

• LA 102 Online Student Success Program

  This course provides information and builds skills that will enhance the student’s success in the online learning environment. Students are introduced to the online classroom, online communication and community, strategies for effective reading and writing, learning skills and resources. (2 credit hours)

• LA 105 Success in Higher Education

  This course provides information and skills for the student’s success in college and learning, in general. Time management, active learning and reading and writing skills are taught and modeled by different departments at the university and practiced by students. (1 credit hr)

• LA 106 Academic Excellence

  This course is designed to assist students with the refinement of academic skills in preparation for maximum academic performance. The objective of this course is to apply strategies learned to other courses taken in the concurrent semester.

• LA 400 American Vision and Values

  Focuses on the political and philosophical traditions of the western world, especially as they are found in the American vision and embedded in the values, traditions, documents, and institutions of the United States.

• LA 410 Tradition and Change

  Begins with world traditions and investigates how social, economic, intellectual, and moral forces of change act against them. The course focuses on the tensions between tradition and change in the production of intellectual, social, and cultural progress. The course emphasizes intense student involvement in a comprehensive learning experience, culminating in a formal written thesis that confronts the values of limited government, popular rule, entrepreneurial processes, and reflective inquiry.

• LA 420 Freedom and Responsibility

  Focuses on the institutions and traditions of Western civilization that are found at the core of American democracy. Central focus is on the balanced relationship between freedom and the responsibilities involved in the ongoing maintenance of freedom in a just and productive society.