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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: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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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
BA 209
3 Credits
Adv Business Spreadsheet Analysis
Practical use of spreadsheets to analyze business problems critically and anticipate future business needs. Emphasizes the use of advanced formulas, visualization tools, spreadsheet automation, and sensitivity/scenario analysis to improve communication of historical results and forecasts of expected future outcomes. Utilizes a case-based approach from a variety of business disciplines. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Prerequisites: BA 109.
Microsoft Excel 2019 Bible: The Comprehensive Tutorial Resource – 2019
Michael Alexander and Dick Kusleika
Wiley
ISBN: 978-1-119-51478-7
BA 301
3 Credits
Legal Envir & Ethics of Business
Background of the American legal system and its Constitutional foundation; public crimes and private torts, contract law, the uniform Commercial code; negotiable instruments; debtor-creditor relationship, ethical systems underlying government and business behaviors; business organizational forms; government regulation of business; property law; and Cyberlaw. Business ethics examined for all subjects treated. Summer only, three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Business Law Today, The Essentials: Text and Summarized Cases – 11th
Miller, Roger LeRoy
Cengage, 2017
ISBN: 9781305574793
Bi 205
3 Credits
Creation to New Creation: Expl Bible
A survey of the Bible and its unfolding message from Creation to New Creation, beginning with creation and fall, climaxing in Christ's work of redemption, and culminating in new creation. Emphasizes biblical literacy, gospel fluency, and cultivation of love for and trust in Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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A Visual Theology Guide to the Bible: Seeing and Knowing God's Word – 2019
Tim Challies and Josh Byers
Zondervan
ISBN: 978-0310577966
Christ from Beginning to End: How the Full Story of Scripture Reveals the Full Glory of Christ – 2018
Trent Hunter and Stephen J. Wellum
Zondervan
ISBN: 978-0310536543
Bi 209
3 Credits
Hermeneutics: Interpreting the Bible
A study of the principles and methods of Bible interpretation. Includes foundational commitments for biblical interpretation; a basic method for biblical interpretation; emphasis on authorial intent, context, and grammatical/historical interpretation; analytical tools for observation; interpretive helps for various genres; and biblical, relevant, text-based application. Includes an introductory discussion of the relationship between ethnic Israel and the New Testament Church in the biblical narrative and in biblical interpretation. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Prerequisites: Bi 205.
Visual Theology Guide to the Bible – 2019
Tim Challies, Josh Byers
Zondervan
ISBN: 9780310577966
Journey Into God's Word – 2nd edition, 2020
J. Scott Duvall, J. Daniel Hays
Zondervan Academic
ISBN: 978-0-310-10896-2
New Testament
Ed 380
3 Credits
Instructional Methods & Strategies
This course is designed to help teachers put instructional theory into practice through the study and application of teaching strategies and techniques that are applicable to the K-12 classroom. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Classroom instruction that works: Research-based strategies for increasing student achievement – 2001
Marzano, R. J., Pickering, D., & Pollock, J. E.
ASCD
ISBN: 978-1416613626
Subscription to GoReact
Subscription to Teaching Channel
Ed 659
3 Credits
R2S Content Area Rdg/Writing EC/Elm
This course focuses on the theoretical bases and techniques related to the teaching of reading and writing in early childhood and elementary school settings. The course will familiarize students with historical concepts of subject matter and related research for learners in Kindergarten through sixth grade. Students will conceptualize disciplinary literacies in order to envision and research literacy pedagogies. This course meets the requirements of the Read to Succeed Act for the R2S Teacher Endorsement in South Carolina for early childhood, elementary, and special education teachers. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Classroom strategies for interactive learning. – (2017) 4th
Buehl, D.
International Reading Association
Reading for information in elementary school: Content literacy strategies to build comprehension – 2007
Frey, N., & Fisher, D
Pearson
Ed 678
3 Credits
R2S Content Area Rdg/Writing MS/HS
This course focuses on the theoretical bases and techniques related to the teaching of reading and writing in middle and high school settings. The course will familiarize students with historical concepts of subject matter and related research for learners in fifth through twelfth grade. Students will conceptualize disciplinary literacies in order to envision and research literacy pedagogies. This course meets the requirements of the Read to Succeed Act for the R2S Teacher Endorsement in South Carolina for middle school and high school teachers. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Subjects matter: Exceeding standards through powerful content-area reading – (2014) 2nd
Daniels, H., & Zemelman, S.
Heinemann
ISBN: 978-0325050836
Content matters: A disciplinary literacy approach to improving student learning – 2010
McConachie, S. M., & Petrosky, A. R.
Jossey-Bass
ISBN: 978-0-470-43411-6
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: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Prerequisites: En ACT 24+, W SAT 30+, V+W CLT 47+, PT or En 101.
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: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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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
En 202
3 Credits
British Literature to 1688
A historical and critical survey of British literature from Beowulf to 1688. Summer only, three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Prerequisites: En 103.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Vol. 1A)
Greenblatt, Stephen, ed.
ISBN: 978-0-393-60302-6
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Vol. 1B)
Greenblatt, Stephen, ed.
ISBN: 978-0-393-60303-3
ESS 203
3 Credits
Sport Ministry
This course explores the role of sports as a tool for ministry, focusing on how athletics can be used to promote spiritual growth, community engagement, and global outreach. Students will learn how to integrate Christian values with sports programs, develop strategies for using sports as a platform for evangelism and discipleship, and explore the impact of sports ministry in various cultural and social contexts. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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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: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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ESS 675
3 Credits
Theories/Strategies-Coaching Golf
Designed to provide advanced instruction and training in technical and tactical skills of golf.\n Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Coaching Golf Successfully – 2001
Bill Madonna
Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN: 0736033912
Golf Is Not A Game Of Perfect – 1995
Dr. Bob Rotella
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 068480364X
Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia – 2009
David L. Cook
Zondervan
ISBN: 9780310318859
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 a biblical worldview. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
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Art for God's Sake
Ryken
ISBN: 978-1-59638-007-3
Art & the Bible
Schaeffer
ISBN: 978-0830834013
Fin 201
3 Credits
Corporate Finance
Principles and techniques of financial analysis, planning and control, working capital management, capital budgeting, long-term financing and cost of capital. Summer only, three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Prerequisites: Ac 103 or Ac 203 Prerequisite.
Foundations of Financial Management – 16th edition
Stanley B. Block, Geoffrey A. Hirt, Bartley R. Danielsen
McGraw-Hill
Fin 310
3 Credits
Financial Institutions & Markets
An introduction to the structure and functioning of financial institutions and markets, including the commercial banking system and the Federal Reserve. Topics include banking theory, financial instruments, roles of financial intermediaries, and the impact of regulation, competition, and securitization on the stability of financial systems. Three hours.
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Financial Markets and Institutions – 10th
Frederic S Mishkin,
Pearson Publishing, 2023
ISBN: ISBN-13: 97801380
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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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 615
3 Credits
Pedagogy Seminar
This course covers the pedagogical sequencing of technique and literature and the development of diagnostic skills and techniques for correcting common performance errors in studio and rehearsal settings. Applications are tailored to the student's teaching area of interest (instrumental, choral). Summer only, odd-numbered years, three hours.
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Instrumental Score Reading Program Workbook – 1979
Grunow, R.F. & Froseth, J.O.
GIA Publications
ISBN: 9781579995799
Instrumental Score Reading Program CD – 1979
Grunow, R.F. & Froseth, J.O.
GIA Publications
ISBN: 978-1579996277
Choral Score Reading Program Workbook – 1985
Grunow, R.F. & Fargo, M.H.
GIA Publications
ISBN: 978-1579995805
Choral Score Reading Program CD – 1985
Grunow, R.F. & Fargo, M.H.
GIA Publications
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: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Prerequisites: Bi 205.
Themes in Western Thought – 2013 (custom)
Horton, Ronald, ed.
McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 978-0-07-781903-3
PrS 312
3 Credits
Communication & Conflict Resolution
This course focuses on approaches to understanding and resolving conflict in interpersonal and organizational contexts. Students learn negotiation skills, mediation techniques, and strategies for giving and receiving feedback from a biblical perspective. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Conflict & Communication – 1st; 2017
Jandt, Fred E
Thousand Oaks
ISBN: 9781506308272
SCM 633
3 Credits
Counseling Issues
Builds on the foundation of SCM 632. Focuses on the dynamics of the heart as it pertains to biblically counseling those struggling with common counseling issues including anger, anxiety, depression and guilt. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Prerequisites: SCM 632.
God Is More Than Enough – 2010
Jim Berg
JourneyForth
ISBN: 978-1606820575
Will Medicine Stop the Pain – 2006
Fitzpatrick, Elyse and Laura Hendrickso
Moody
ISBN: 978-080245802
Good Mood-Bad Mood: Help and Hope for Depression and Bipolar Disorder – 2013
Hodges, Charles, M.D
Shepherd Press
ISBN: 978-193690850
Men Counseling Men: A Biblical Guide to the Major Issues Men Face – 2013
Street, John, ed
Harvest House
ISBN: 978-0736949262.
The Biblical Counseling Guide for Women – 2012
Street, John and Janie Street
Crossway
ISBN: 978-0736964517
Putting Your Past in Its Place – 2011
Viars, Steve
Harvest
ISBN: 978-0736927390
Blame it on the Brain? – 1998
Welch, Edward
P&R
ISBN: 0875526020
SCM 637
3 Credits
Marriage & Family Counseling
Methods of marriage and family counseling within the church setting. Premarital counseling. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Prerequisites: SCM 632.
Love that Lasts: When Marriage Meets Grace – 2006
Ricucci, Gary and Betsy
Crossway
ISBN: 978-1581347821
When Sinners Say, I Do – 2007
Harvey, Dave
Shepherd Press
ISBN: 978-0976758266
The Complete Husband – 2017
Priolo, Lou
P&R Publishing
ISBN: 978-1629951034
The Excellent Wife – 1999
Peace, Martha
Focus Publishing
ISBN: 978-1885904089
Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family – 2016
Paul Tripp
Crossway
ISBN: 978-1433551932
SOT 617
3 Credits
Exposition: Isaiah
Expositional studies in Isaiah with an emphasis on the integrity of the structure of the book and the development of the book's theme throughout its content in refutation of critical claims. Includes discussion of how to structure a preaching series from Isaiah and allows the student an opportunity to develop messages from different-sized portions of the book. Covers vital hermeneutical and translational problems in the book. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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The Prophecy of Isaiah – 1993
J. Alec Motyer
InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830814248
STh 613
3 Credits
Christian Apologetics
Explores biblical philosophies and methodologies for the defense of the Christian faith. Addresses evidences for the existence of God, the historicity of Jesus' resurrection, and the reliability of the Bible's testimony. Examines the relation between faith and reason, the problem of evil, and worldview issues. Three hours.
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STh 740
3 Credits
Old Testament Theology
Principles and methods of biblical theology as applied to the Old Testament. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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New Dictionary of Biblical Theology – 2000
Alexander, T. Desmond and Brian S. Rosner, eds.
InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 10: 0-8308-1438-8
The Theological Messages of the Old Testament Books – 2010
Bell, Robert D.
BJU Press
ISBN: 978-1606821596
STh 776
2 Credits
Theology & Practice of Prayer
A biblical-theological exploration of prayer throughout the Old and New Testaments with targeted prayer exercises based on biblical models and instruction and readings from devotional and expositional treatments of prayer. Two hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Praying: Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight – 2006
Packer/Nystrom
IVP
Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers – 1975
Bennett, A. ed.
Banner of Truth
Praying the Bible – 2015
Whitney, Donald.
Crossway
Th 350
3 Credits
Doctrines: Bibliology-Angelology
Study of the biblical teaching concerning Scripture, God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and angels (including Satan). Emphasis throughout is on the practical application of the teachings of the Bible to the Christian life. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Prerequisites: Bi 209.
The Moody Handbook of Theology – 2008 or 2014
Paul Enns
Moody
ISBN: 978-0802411983
A Pictorial History of Our English Bible – 1982
David Beale
BJU Press
ISBN: 0890841497
Th 360
3 Credits
Doctrines: Anthropology-Eschatology
Study of the biblical teaching concerning man, sin, salvation, the church and eschatology. Emphasis throughout is on the practical application of the teachings of the Bible to the Christian life. Particular attention is given to timely doctrinal questions. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Prerequisites: Bi 209.
The Moody Handbook of Theology – 2008 or 2014
Paul Enns
Moody Publishers
ISBN: 978-0802411983
Set Apart: The Nature and Importance of Biblical Separation – 2016
Mark Sidwell
BJU Press
ISBN: 978-1628562583
A book selected by the student from a list of doctrinal expository works
Th 499
3 Credits
Worldview & Apologetics
An analysis and defense of the biblical worldview, together with an analysis and refutation of secular and religious alternative worldviews. The course will equip students to defend the core biblical doctrines and refute spurious philosophical, historical, archeological and scientific claims against the Bible. The course presents a brief history of the apologetics discipline and important Christian thinkers. The course addresses significant historical and contemporary thinkers and their objections to biblical Christianity. Three hours.
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Dates: Jun. 29 – Aug. 15, 2026
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Prerequisites: Th 350, Th 360, Ph 200.
The New Creationism: Building Scientific Theories on a Biblical Foundation – 2009
Paul Garner
Evangelical Press
Engaging Gods World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living – 2002
Cornelius Plantinga
Eerdmans
The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog – 6th (2020)
James Sire
InterVarsity Press
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