Typical Early College Online Courses

Early College courses fulfill UA General Education Requirements.

ANT 100 Introduction to Anthropology (3 hours). Introduction to the study of man from an anthropological perspective. Contributions to understanding man from the humanities, as well as the biological, social, & historical sciences are considered.

ANT 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3 hours). Introduction to the study of contemporary cultures & societies & the linguistic components of human behavior.

ARB 101 Elementary Arabic I (3 hours). Contemporary Arabic-speaking, reading, and writing. Course involves self-instructional approach in the Critical Languages Center. Students are required to study the textbook and listen to assigned audio materials (CDs, or computer sound files). Students have practice sessions three hours per week with a language "trainer" who is a native/near native speaker (or superior level) of the language.

ARH 252 Survey of Art I (3 hours). Survey of major examples of painting, sculpture, & archictecture from the prehistoric through the medieval periods.

ARH 253 Survey of Art II (3 hours). Survey of major examples of painting, sculpture, & architecture from the Renaissance through the modern periods.

AY 101 Introductory Astronomy and AY 102 Astronomy Lab (4 hours). History of astronomy, the solar system, stars, galaxies, and the universe; recent discoveries about pulsars, black holes, and quasars will be discussed. Observation of the sun, moon, and daytime astronomical activity. Indoor exercises include stellar spectra, H-R diagram, celestial sphere, and astronomical photographic analysis.

BSC 108 Introductory Biology for Non-Majors I, and Lab (4 hours). Survey of the basic principles of cellular biology, genetics, plant & animal diversity, & evolution.

BSC 109 Introductory Biology for Non Majors II, and Lab (4 hours). Study of the physiology of living organisms, with emphasis on the physiology of humans. Includes an overview of general ecology and animal behavior.

CHI 101 Elementary Chinese I (4 hours). Contemporary National Language (Mandarin)—speaking, reading, and writing.

CS 102 Microcomputer Applications. (3 hours). Familiarization with Windows, fundamental and intermediate word processing commands, spreadsheet applications, and database management. (This course is a prerequisite to other CS courses. Credit for this course will not be applied to the requirements for a computer science degree.)

CS 202 Introduction to the Information Highway (3 hours). Introduces the student to the basic principles of the information highway. Students will be exposed to different network information tools such as electronic mail, network news, gophers, the World Wide Web, Mosaic, and commercial information services.

CS 205 Website Design (3 hours). A course designed to teach website design principles and implementation techniques.

CS 285 Microcomputer Applications (3 hours). Use of spreadsheets and other environments to build business and scientific applications. Course includes development of problem-solving skills and an introduction to the object-oriented paradigm.

EN 101 English Composition I (3 hours). Introduction to college-level expository writing, critical reading, preliminary research techniques, & the rhetorical tools needed.

EN 102 English Composition II (3 hours). Intermediate college-level expository writing, critical thinking & analysis, & research-paper writing.

EN 209 American Literature I (3 hours). Survey of American literature from its beginnings to 1865, including, for example, work by Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Melville, and Whitman.

EN 210 American Literature II (3 hours). Survey of American literature from 1865 to the present, including, for example, work by Twain, Dickinson, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Morrison.

GY 105 World Regional Geography (3 hours). Introduction to geography through a survey of the world’s major geographic regions. Examines their physical and cultural features, economies, and populations.

GY 110 Principles of Human Geography (3 hours). Introduction to geography as a science for learning the fundamentals of human behavior and decision making. Examines how human events, natural resources, economies, development, and urbanization impact the way humankind lives, organizes its space, and makes decisions for the future.

HD 101 Human Development (3 hours). Introductory survey of developmental principles within the domains of the physical, cognitive, & psychosocial self.

HES 275 (1-3 hours)
Community Volunteering

HY 101 Western Civilization to 1648 (3 hours). A history of Western civilization from it's origins through the Reformation & modern Europe.

HY 102 Western Civilization since 1648 (3 hours). Covers the development of the Western world from the Thirty Years' War to the post-World War II era: the age of absolutism, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, industrialization, and the wars of the 20th century. Usually offered in the summer session.

HY 203 American Civilization to 1865 (3 hours). A survey of American history from it's beginning to the end of the Civil War.

HY 204 American Civilization since 1865 (3 hours). A survey of American history from the Civil War to the present, giving special emphasis to the events, people, and ideas that have made America a distinctive civilization.

JA 101 Elementary Japanese I. (4 hours). Five hours of instruction per week. Acquisition of elementary Japanese language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

MATH 100 Intermediate Algebra (3 hours). Intermediate-level course including work on functions, graphs, linear equations and inequalities, quadratic equations, systems of equations, and operations with exponents and radicals. The solution of word problems is stressed. NOT APPLICABLE to UA Core Curriculum mathematics requirement.

MATH 110 Finite Math (3 hours). Sets and counting, permutations and combinations, basic probability, conditional probability, matrices and their application to Markov chains, and a brief introduction to statistics.

MATH 112 Precalculus (3 hours). A higher-level course emphasizing functions including polynomial functions, rational functions, and the exponential and logarithmic functions. Graphs of these functions are stressed. The course also includes work on equations, inequalities, systems of equations, the binomial theorem, and the complex and rational roots of polynomials. Applications are stressed.

MATH 121 Calculus and Business Applications (3 hours). A brief overview of calculus primarily for students in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration. Includes differentiation and integration of algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions, and applications in business and economics. Some work on functions of several variables and Lagrange multipliers is done. L'Hopital's Rule and multiple integration are included. Only business-related applications are covered. (This course is not satisfactory preparation for curricula requiring standard calculus or higher mathematics, and it is not a prerequisite to calculus or higher mathematics.)

PY 101 Introduction to Psychology (3 hours)
Basic principles of psychology

Typical Early College On-Campus Courses

Early College students may be eligible to participate in the Early College summer experience, in which they take courses on campus during a 5-week summer term. Early College courses fulfill UA General Education Requirements.

AMS 205 Working Lives (3 hours). This lecture/discussion course focuses on individual American lives in their working experiences as they are expressed in their personal forms of autobiographies, oral histories, diaries, and letters. What does work mean to Americans as they construct their lives and judge their personal success or failure? What is the role of work in construction of a "good life" in this culture? And do these views vary according to the individual's position in the ethnic, gender, class, and regional richness and diversity of the American experience?

CH 104 Intro to Chemistry and Chemistry Lab (4 hours). The course is primarily for students in the Capstone College of Nursing and the College of Human Environmental Sciences. An introductory survey of the facts, principles, and theories of chemistry.

CIP 200 Intro to Global Studies (3 hours.) Designed as the first course to be taken in the Global Studies Certificate Program, to introduce the undergraduate student to the cultural, economic, physical, and political aspects of being a world citizen in the 21st century.

COM 122 Critical Decision Making (3 hours). Theory and practice of basic principles of decision making, providing a general introduction to persuasion, argument, and small-group theory.

COM 123 Public Speaking (3 hours). Theory and practice of basic principles of public speaking, with emphasis on the compositional and presentational aspects of communication in formal speaking situations.

GN 101 Elementary German I (4 hours). First term German language course for students who have had no prior instruction in German language.

GY 101 Atmospheric Processes and Patterns, and Lab (4 hours). Earth-space relations, latitude and longitude, seasons, time, weather, climate, and vegetation. Particular attention is given to the causes of weather and climate and why they tend to be different from place to place.

NHM 101 Introduction to Nutrition (3 hours)

PHL 100 Introduction to Philosophy (3 hours). Survey of the main topics of philosophy, which may include God, souls, free will, the nature of right and wrong, just government, truth, and knowledge.

PHL 200 Introduction to Ethics (3 hours.) Introduction to competing views of how one ought to live, designed to promote the development of a reasoned view of one’s own. May include such topics as ethical relativism, the nature of justice and of rights, and the relationship of law and morality.

PY 101 Introduction to Psychology (3 hours). Basic principles of psychology. (Prerequisite to all higher-numbered psychology courses).

REL 100 Introduction to World Religions (3 hours). Various methodological approaches to the academic study of religion, with examples of religious life and thought drawn from a variety of cultures. This course is required of all majors and minors.

REL 112 New Testament (3 hours). Introduction to the Hellenistic world of early Christianity, examining the early traditions about Jesus that were organized into the Gospels and the letters of Paul.

SP 101 Introductory Spanish I (4 hours). This course is the first semester of college-level study of Spanish. For students who have no prior instruction in Spanish, or fewer than two high school units of Spanish.

SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology (3 hours). Introduction to the scientific study of human social behavior.