StraighterLine Courses

Developmental Writing

Build college-level writing skills: draft and revise sentences, paragraphs, and essays, and apply writing strategies used across different disciplines and professions.

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English Composition I

Develop college-level writing across argumentative, compare and contrast, descriptive, narrative, and persuasive essays, while practicing grammar, punctuation, spelling, research techniques, editing, and revision.

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• Paid Course

English Composition II

Write college-level essays centered on analysis and argument, fulfilling the second half of the standard composition general education requirement.

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Anatomy & Physiology I

Review the structure and function of the human body: anatomical terminology, body organization, chemistry basics, and the muscular, skeletal, nervous, and integumentary systems, plus related diseases.

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• Paid Course

Anatomy & Physiology II

Study the cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary and reproductive systems, plus immunity, nutrition, metabolism, fluid balance, and human development, growth and aging.

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First Aid/CPR

Assess an emergency scene and respond: perform CPR and defibrillation, relieve choking, and treat heart attacks, strokes, bleeding, burns, fractures, and poisoning.

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Medical Terminology

Master the language of medicine: learn word etymology and terms for pathological conditions across the digestive, endocrine, lymphatic, musculoskeletal, nervous, respiratory, and urinary systems.

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Microbiology

Explore pathogenic microorganisms and describe the symptoms, causative agent, pathogenesis, epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of infectious diseases, including parasites, viruses, and host interactions.

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Personal Fitness & Wellness

Assess your own wellness with fitness tests and health risk questionnaires while studying exercise program design, cardiovascular disease terms, strength training, stress, and nutrition.

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Pharmacology

Study how drugs act on the body: therapeutic and adverse effects, nervous system pharmacology, and drug classes including muscle relaxants, anesthetics and pain medications.

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• Paid Course

American Government

Trace American government from the social contract and Constitution through federalism, civil liberties, elections, and the three branches to public policy and state and local government.

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Introduction to Philosophy

Study metaphysics, epistemology, free will and ethics through Socrates, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche and Marx, plus Taoist, Confucian and Zen influences on Western thought.

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• Paid Course

Introduction to Religion

Survey the world's religions: compare Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shinto alongside indigenous oral traditions and modern new religious movements.

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Introduction to Sociology

Explore how sociology applies to everyday life, examining social class and social institutions such as churches, education, healthcare, government, the economy, and the environment.

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Survey of World History

Trace five millennia of global history, surveying the major events, societies, and people that shaped world civilizations.

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