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Ac 204
3 Credits
Principles of Accounting II
Basic principles and procedures in accounting for corporate equity, bonds, manufacturing costs, managerial analysis of costs and cost/revenue relationships, special statements, analysis of financial statements and individual budgeting, and taxes. Introduction to business ethics. Second semester and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – Mar. 7, 2026
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Next offered: Jun. 29, 2026 - Aug. 15, 2026
Prerequisites: Ac 203.
Financial and Managerial Accounting: The Basis for Business Decisions, – 18th
Jan R. Williams, Susan F. Haka, Mark S. Bettner, and Joseph Carcello
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
EAS 678
3 Credits
Organizational Leadership
An exploration of organizational theory and its application in a school setting, emphasizing strategic planning, instructional leadership and public relations. Second semester, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – Mar. 7, 2026
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The Leadership Challenge – 5th or 6th
James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Jossey-Bass, 2012
ISBN: 978-0470651728
Practicing the Art of Leadership: A Problem-Based Approach to Implementing the ISLLC Standards – 5th
Reginald Leon Green
Pearson, 2017
ISBN: 978-0134088778
Future-Focused Leadership
Gary Marx
ASCD, 2006
ISBN: 978-1416602194
Leading Change in Your School: How to Conquer Myths, Build Commitment, and Get Results
Douglas B. Reeves
ASCD, 2009
ISBN: 978-1416608080
EAS 695
3 Credits
Ed Leadership Action Research
In this semester long capstone course, the student is expected to demonstrate the implementation of leadership skills (tied to coursework taken in this program) to an approved action research project in a K-12 educational setting. The student must have access to a traditional K-12 school during the semester this course is taken.\~ Both semesters, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Prerequisites: Ed 690.
Balanced leadership for powerful learning: Tools for achieving success in your school – 2015
Bryan Goodwin & Greg Cameron with Heather Hein
ASCD
ISBN: 978-1-4166-2088-4
School Leadership that Works
Robert Marzano, Timothy Waters, Brian McNulty
ASCD
ISBN: 978-1416602279
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association – 6th
American Psychological Association
ISBN: 978-1433805615
Ed 275
3 Credits
Biblical Worldview Formation in Educ
This course is designed to meet the needs of Christian teachers who desire to improve their skills in biblical worldview formation. It distinguishes a secular approach to education from a Christian approach, presents a method for planning and writing instruction from a Christian perspective, and provides a tool for evaluating Christian educational materials. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – Mar. 7, 2026
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Next offered: Jun. 8, 2026 - Jul. 25, 2026
Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption
BJU Press
ISBN: 978-1-60682-727-7
Ed 493
3 Credits
Field Experience Capstone
In this course candidates demonstrate their ability to apply learning and development theories and to utilize developmentally appropriate practices by writing lessons plans, creating assessments, and providing feedback to students in the K-12 environment. Candidates create an electronic portfolio and submit videotaped lessons to receive individualized feedback on their planning and teaching strategies. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Ed 661
3 Credits
Assessment of Learning
The appraisal of a student's intellectual capacity and aspects of personality; the interpretation of educational data using descriptive statistics including frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, the normal probability curve and graphs. Attention is also given to test construction and the development of a testing program. Second semester, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – Mar. 7, 2026
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Educational Assessment of Students – (2019) 8th
Brookhart, S. M. & Nitko, A. J.
Pearson
ISBN: 978-0-13-480707-2
Ed 691
3 Credits
Readings in Education
Independent study through the use of readings with special emphasis on selected areas from the field of education. This course can be substituted for other courses at the discretion of the program coordinator. Second semester and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Next offered: May. 11, 2026 - Aug. 15, 2026
Prerequisites: Ed 690.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Recommended but not required) – 7th (2019)
American Psychological Association
ISBN: 978-1433832161
Ed 693
3 Credits
Field Experience Capstone
In this course participants demonstrate their professional responsibilities by applying learning and development theories and demonstrating developmentally appropriate practices by writing lessons plans, creating assessments and providing feedback to students in the K-12 environment. Participants will submit recordings of lessons to receive individualized feedback on their planning and teaching strategies. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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There is no textbook for this course.
Ed 695
3 Credits
Action Research Project
In this semester long capstone course, the student will have a supervised experience in an area of fieldwork under the direction of faculty; including papers, unit work samples, recorded lessons--uploaded and critiqued--all tied to coursework taken previously in the MEd Program. The student must be teaching in a traditional K-12 classroom during the semester this course is taken. Both semesters, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Prerequisites: Ed 690.
Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Reseacher – 5th
Geoffrey Mills
Pearson
ISBN: 978-0133389210
En 101
3 Credits
Composition & Grammar
Review of sentence structure, punctuation, paragraph development and essay organization. Emphasis on expository writing. Required of students with English ACT score between 15 and 23, or Writing SAT score 21 to 29. Not open to those with English ACT score above 23, or Writing SAT score above 29. Not applicable toward a major or minor. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Next offered: May. 11, 2026 - Jun. 27, 2026
Prerequisites: En 095, Plmt Test, ACT 15-23 or SAT 21-29.
College Writing – 2nd ed., 2010
Horton, Ronald A.
BJU Press
ISBN: 978-1606820247
En 102
3 Credits
Composition & Rhetoric
Introduction to academic writing emphasizing argumentation, research, documentation and style; centering on the library paper. Not applicable toward a major or minor. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Next offered: May. 11, 2026 - Jun. 27, 2026
Prerequisites: En 101, Plmt Test, ACT 24+, SAT 30+.
Companion to College English – 4th
Horton, Ronald A.
BJU Press, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-62856-848-6
En 102
3 Credits
Composition & Rhetoric
Introduction to academic writing emphasizing argumentation, research, documentation and style; centering on the library paper. Not applicable toward a major or minor. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Next offered: May. 11, 2026 - Jun. 27, 2026
Prerequisites: En 101, Plmt Test, ACT 24+, SAT 30+.
Companion to College English – 4th
Horton, Ronald A.
BJU Press, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-62856-848-6
En 102
3 Credits
Composition & Rhetoric
Introduction to academic writing emphasizing argumentation, research, documentation and style; centering on the library paper. Not applicable toward a major or minor. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Next offered: May. 11, 2026 - Jun. 27, 2026
Prerequisites: En 101, Plmt Test, ACT 24+, SAT 30+.
Companion to College English – 4th
Horton, Ronald A.
BJU Press, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-62856-848-6
En 103
3 Credits
Composition & Literature
Critical writing using literary analysis. Discussion of literature by genres and according to basic literary critical concepts and terminology. Not applicable toward a major or minor. Second semester and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – Mar. 7, 2026
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Next offered: May. 11, 2026 - Jun. 27, 2026
Prerequisites: En 102.
A Companion to College English – 4th
Horton, Ronald A.
BJU Press, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-60682-040-7
Readings for College English – 2nd
BJU Press
ISBN: 978-1-60682-039-1
ESS 640
3 Credits
Sport Finance
Provides an overview of financial aspects of sport. Topics include accounting, budgeting, financial statements, funding, economic inpact, and supply and demand. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – Mar. 7, 2026
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FA 125
3 Credits
Christianity & the Arts
This course examines the aesthetic and moral nature of the arts and their relevance to everyday life. It emphasizes the process of employing a biblical framework when evaluating and interacting with the arts in contemporary culture while affirming the objective nature of beauty, truth, reality and goodness. Through lectures, readings, and breakout sessions, students will gain a historical perspective of and basic working terminological knowledge in Art, Music, Theatre, and Film. Attendance at music recitals, art exhibitions, and theatrical performances will provide students with opportunities to apply and synthesize course material and articulate their worldview. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Next offered: Mar. 6, 2026 - May. 2, 2026
Art for God's Sake
Ryken
ISBN: 978-1-59638-007-3
Art & the Bible
Schaeffer
ISBN: 978-0830834013
Hi 101
3 Credits
The Making of the Modern World
The course focuses on the process of historical thinking from a biblical perspective by investigating the forces and factors that have shaped the world we live in today, and by studying themes including empire building, revolutions, religious movements, philosophical and artistic accomplishments, social and economic networks. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Next offered: Mar. 6, 2026 - May. 2, 2026
The Penguin History of the World – 6th
J. M. Roberts and O. A. Westad
ISBN: 978-1846144431
A Little Book for New Historians: Why and How To Study History
Robert Tracy McKenzie
Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2019
ME 610
2 Credits
Writing/Arranging School Ensembles
Supervised composition and arranging of music for school ensembles. Both semesters, two hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – Mar. 7, 2026
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The Technique of Orchestration – 6th
Kent Kennan and Donald Grantham
Prentice-Hall, 2002
ISBN: 0130407712
Min 490
3 Credits
Degree Completion Capstone
Students produce a thesis, project, or major presentation or complete a practicum or internship to demonstrate their mastery of the learning outcomes for their degree program. Three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Next offered: May. 11, 2026 - Aug. 15, 2026
Prerequisites: Identical to PrS 490.
Any required reading will be determined when the student meets with his faculty advisors.
Ph 200
3 Credits
Ideas & Their Consequences
Selected philosophical ideas of continuing importance from the pre-Socratics to the 20th century. Second semester and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Next offered: May. 11, 2026 - Jun. 27, 2026
Prerequisites: Bi 209, Bi 205.
Themes in Western Thought – 2013 (custom)
Horton, Ronald, ed.
McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 978-0-07-781903-3
Ph 200
3 Credits
Ideas & Their Consequences
Selected philosophical ideas of continuing importance from the pre-Socratics to the 20th century. Second semester and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – Mar. 7, 2026
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Next offered: May. 11, 2026 - Jun. 27, 2026
Prerequisites: Bi 209, Bi 205.
Themes in Western Thought – 2013 (custom)
Horton, Ronald, ed.
McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 978-0-07-781903-3
PrS 430
3 Credits
Leadership Effectiveness
Analysis and application of the practical skills that leaders and managers need for success in work and ministry contexts. Topics include the leader's vision, communication skills, team development, and self-management. Second semester, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – Mar. 7, 2026
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There is no textbook for this course.
PrS 490
3 Credits
Degree Completion Capstone
Students produce a thesis, project, or major presentation or complete a practicum or internship to demonstrate their mastery of the learning outcomes for their degree program. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – May. 2, 2026
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Next offered: May. 11, 2026 - Aug. 15, 2026
Prerequisites: Identical to Min 490.
Any required reading will be determined when the student meets with his faculty advisors.
SSP 207
3 Credits
National Government
American government, the organization and functioning of American political life on the national level. Second semester and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jan. 16 – Mar. 7, 2026
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Next offered: May. 11, 2026 - Jun. 27, 2026
Politics in America, 2018 Elections and Update Edition – 11th
Dye, Thomas R. and Gaddie, Ronald Keith
ISBN: 978-0-13-520275-3
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