Course provides an introduction to Geneva College, its history and mission, as well as the commitment of the online programs to robust faith integration within its curricula. Includes the development of proper attribution and academic writing skills, as well as personal and professional proficiencies required for success in Geneva’s online programs.
This course is designed to equip adult learners with strategies for success in college and in life-long learning, emphasizing personal responsibility. With a specific focus toward success in online learning, this course covers foundational ideas about faith, learning, and a biblical worldview; Geneva’s available resources and services; goal-setting; time management and organization; writing basics; reading strategies; APA style; and adult learning theories.
- Course Instructor : Nicole Gerdes
This course encourages students to develop familiarity with the literature in their major field of study with an emphasis on information literacy. Students will identify, access, retrieve, and summarize respected information in the field that is relevant to a research topic. In addition to identifying themes in the literature, students will compare, contrast, and evaluate the major perspectives that emerge from their investigation.
- Course Instructor : Dr. LeeAnne Price
This course introduces Christian apologetics, that is, the giving of well-reasoned and faithful responses to challenges and criticisms raised against the Christian faith (1 Peter 3:15). Common objections to the claims of historical Christianity, such as the problem of evil and the reliability of Scripture, are considered. Various approaches to apologetics are explored. The course helps to equip learners to more effectively serve as ambassadors of Jesus Christ within a radically skeptical, post-modern cultural context.
- Course Instructor : Kathryn Lee
This course introduces students to the history, doctrine and background features of those books of the Bible that were written in connection with the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Our primary goal in this course is to help students become better readers of the New Testament. Every reader of the Bible is an interpreter of the Bible - so we want to help you become a balanced and insightful interpreter by describing central doctrines, and some of the historical, geographic and cultural factors which can contribute to our understanding of the New Testament.
- Course Instructor : Nicholas Davelaar
Students will explore the humanities as a manifestation of human responses to the Cultural Mandate – to “rule over the earth and subdue it.” The humanities reflect the cultural values of the culture from which they spring; therefore, students will be equipped with the theological and philosophical categories needed to properly discern the truth (and untruth) of the cultural messages embedded in the humanities. On the one hand, students will be equipped to appreciate the common grace truth embedded in the humanities, but on the other hand, students will be equipped with the biblical categories of antithesis needed to discern where those truths fall short. At the end of the course, students will be equipped to engage both aesthetic considerations and “truth considerations” in the humanities.
- Course Instructor : Vincent Scavo
This course provides an introduction to the field of human resources and discusses the emerging role of HR professionals as strategic business partners as well as their relationship to other functions within the organization. Legal and contemporary approaches to diversity management are discussed. Key legislation discussed will include EEO, ADA, FMLA, and Title VII. This course will provide a foundation for further study of human resources.
- Course Instructor : Richard Geyer
This course surveys human diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and social class in contemporary American culture. The effects of oppression and prejudice will be explored on individuals and groups as well as evaluating the consequences of social policy aimed at alleviating discrimination. Implications for the practice of human services will be discussed.
- Course Instructor : Sheri Hanley
This course introduces the student to basic principles and foundations of marketing. Topics include defining marketing and the market process, understanding the marketplace and consumers, designing a customer-driven marketing strategy and mix, and the major trends and forces that impact marketing.
- Course Instructor : Angie Skelton
This course introduces principles of earth and space science with a purposefully Christian perspective. Earth and space sciences include the detailed study of Earth’s materials, hydrologic systems, and tectonic systems, as well as an understanding of the other planets in our solar system. Underlying this course will be the examination of God’s hand in this orderly creation and His continued involvement in it.
- Course Instructor : Alan Livingston