Designing Success is a one-credit orientation course that prepares students for success in the online college environment. Students learn to navigate the learning management system and student portal, access academic resources, and understand institutional policies and expectations. The course emphasizes growth mindset principles, academic and life skills, and strategies for managing time, overcoming challenges, and seeking support. Through reflective activities and personalized planning, students build confidence, resilience, and a clear foundation for academic success.

Essential Skills of Personal Finance is a one-credit course that introduces students to core concepts and everyday practices of personal finance. Students learn to track income and expenses, create a simple spending plan, understand basic banking products, distinguish between assets and liabilities, and recognize the role of credit and debt in overall financial well-being. The course emphasizes practical application, short reflections, and small action steps that students can implement immediately. By the end of the course, students will have a clearer picture of their current financial situation and a personalized set of next steps to support their academic, personal, and career goals.

This course addresses the legal and policy formulations that support a broad understanding of homeland security law and policy in the U.S. The course provides the basic direction of homeland security means and objectives, and establishes a context for homeland security within the broader purview of national security. Principles of international law are addressed, as are the U.S. Constitution, U.S. legislative authority, and relevant U.S. laws. Students learn about national security, homeland security, and emergency management laws and policies.

This final capstone course engages students in implementing and evaluating an action research intervention within an authentic educational or organizational setting developed in EDU 694: Capstone 1 – Educational Research. Students analyze and interpret findings in relation to theory and practice, develop evidence-based recommendations for future improvement, and disseminate results through professional written and oral presentations. The course emphasizes reflective practice and professional growth as educators, leaders, and researchers. Prerequisite EDU 694.

This course surveys the major theoretical perspectives on life span development from conception through late adulthood. Developmental processes related to physical, cognitive, moral, and emotional functions are reviewed as well as societal and cultural aspects of development. Equivalent to PSY 5130