Program Overview

  • Duration

    1 Year (Self-Paced) Program

    Can be done in 6 months

  • Total Courses

    14-18

  • Total Credit Hours

    84-140

The English program offers a comprehensive study of literature, language, and writing. Students engage with classic and contemporary works of literature, explore literary theory, and hone their writing skills. Graduates are well-equipped to pursue careers in writing, publishing, education, or communications. They play a crucial role in the creation and dissemination of literature, language, and culture.

SOCIAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS AND ANALYTICAL SKILLS:

The program typically begins with a solid foundation in core business disciplines, such as accounting, marketing, finance, management, and organizational behavior. This equips students with a well-rounded understanding of how businesses operate.


FIELDWORK AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:

Beyond the theoretical framework, the College of Social Sciences places a significant emphasis on fieldwork and community engagement. Students have opportunities to participate in research projects, engage with local communities, and apply social science concepts to real-world situations. These experiences not only enhance their analytical and research skills but also provide valuable insights into the social sciences field.


CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL ISSUES ACROSS THE GLOBE:

The College of Social Sciences at Hudson Bay University is committed to nurturing cultural diversity and addressing social issues from around the world. Our curriculum integrates social sciences from various cultures and encourages students to explore different societal traditions. Additionally, we offer study abroad programs, international research opportunities, and collaborations with social scientists from diverse backgrounds, enabling students to gain a global perspective on social sciences.

Gain an introduction to political science, covering the fundamental principles and concepts of political science as a discipline. Analyze political theories, research methods, and the history of political science.


Explore the introduction to mass communication, focusing on the principles of mass communication, media studies, and the impact of mass media on society. Analyze mass communication theories, media effects, and mass media technologies.


Explore world literature, focusing on the study of literary works from around the world. Analyze diverse literary traditions, cultural contexts, and global perspectives in literature.


Study the foundations of sociology, emphasizing the fundamental principles and concepts of sociology as a discipline. Analyze sociological perspectives, research methods, and the history of sociology.


Gain insights into English rhetoric, focusing on the principles of persuasive communication, argumentation, and rhetorical analysis. Analyze rhetorical techniques, persuasive strategies, and effective communication.


Explore essentials of general psychology, emphasizing the fundamental principles of psychology, human behavior, and psychological research. Analyze psychological theories, research methods, and the study of human behavior.


Gain an introduction to world history, covering the historical events, world civilizations, and global historical developments. Analyze world history periods, historical analysis, and the study of global events.


Discuss the introduction to economics, emphasizing the basic economic principles, economic systems, and market forces. Analyze economic concepts, supply and demand, and economic decision-making.

Latest Developments in Engineering explores cutting-edge developments in engineering disciplines. Topics may include emerging technologies, research trends, and their impact on various engineering fields.


Introduction to English Grammar explores the fundamental principles of English grammar. Students will delve into sentence structure, parts of speech, and language usage to enhance their communication and writing skills.


Introduction to English Literature introduces students to the world of English literary works. This course covers a range of literary genres, authors, and critical analysis, offering a comprehensive overview of English literature.


Introduction to Theatre provides an introduction to the world of theater and dramatic arts. Students will explore theater history, production techniques, and the cultural significance of theatrical performances.


Fundamentals of Fiction focuses on the essentials of fiction writing. Students will learn the elements of storytelling, character development, and narrative structure, providing a strong foundation for creative writing.


Introduction to Poetry explores the art of poetry, from its historical roots to modern poetic forms. Students will analyze and create poetry, deepening their understanding of poetic expression.

Cost of Attendance

Tuition Fee Breakdown Cost
ASSOCIATE TO BACHELOR'S DEGREE (ABSS) $18,480
Medical Insurance $0.00
Personal Expenses $0.00
Study Materials $0.00
Food Cost $0.00
Total Tuition Fee $18,480
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Meets Opportunity

At Hudson Bay University, we believe in where affordability meets opportunity. Our commitment to accessible education ensures that quality learning doesn't come with a hefty price tag. We open the doors to knowledge, offering students the chance to thrive without the burden of overwhelming tuition fees, empowering them for a brighter future.

Our Eligibility Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

High School Diploma, GED or equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

84-140

Course Duration

1 Year (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

14-18

Introduction To Political Science (SS-080)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     A Science Of Politics
     Theories: Classic And Modern
     Nations, States, And Governments
     Individuals And Constitutions
     Democracy, Totalitarianism And Authoritarianism
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Political Ideologies
     Political Culture
     Public Opinion
     Political Communication And The Media
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Interest Groups
     Political Parties And Party Systems
     Elections
     The Basic Institutions Of Government
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Legislatures
     Executives
     Administration And Bureaucracy
     Legal Systems And The Courts
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Political Economy
     Violence And Revolution
     International Relations
     The Global System

Introduction To Mass Communication (SS-196)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     We The People: Media And Communication.
     Books
     Newspapers
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Magazines
     The Movies
     Radio
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Television
     Music And The Recording Industry
     Computers And The Internet
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Journalism: Information And Society
     Public Relations
     Advertising
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Ethics
     Regulation
     Mass Communication Research: From Content To Effects

World Literature (SS-291)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Reading And Writing As A Social Act
     Roots And Rebellions
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Gender And Identity
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     War And Violence
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Race And Culture
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Individualism And Community

Foundations Of Sociology (SS-381)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     What Is Sociology?
     Sociological Research Methods
     Culture, Society, And Social Change
     Socialization
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Deviance And Crime
     Interaction, Groups, And Organizations
     Inequalities Of Social Class
     Inequalities Of Race And Ethnicity
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Inequalities Of Gender
     The Economy
     The Political Order
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Marriage And Family
     Education
     Religion
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Medicine And Health Care
     Population, Ecology, And Urbanization
     Collective Social Action

English Rhetoric (SS-395)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Reading And Writing In College
     The Reading Process
     Reading Critically
     The Writing Process
     Preparing To Write
     Writing Effectively
     Revising And Editing
     Describing
     Narrating
     Illustrating
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Analyzing A Process
     Comparing And Contrasting
     Dividing And Classifying
     Defining
     Analyzing Causes And Effects
     Arguing
     Recognizing A Research Paper
     Avoiding Plagiarism
     Finding Sources
     Writing A Research Paper
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Documenting Sources
     Revising And Editing A Research Paper
     Writing Workshop
     Parts Of Speech, Phrases, Clauses
     Subjects And Verbs
     Fragments
     Fused Sentences And Comma Splices
     Regular And Irregular Verbs
     Verb Tense
     Subject-Verb Agreement
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     More On Verbs
     Pronoun Problems
     Pronoun Reference And Point Of View
     Pronoun Agreement
     Adjectives
     Adverbs
     Modifier Errors
     End Punctuation
     Commas
     Apostrophes
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Quotation Marks
     Other Punctuation Marks
     Capitalization
     Abbreviations And Numbers
     Varying Sentence Structure
     Parallelism
     Combining Sentences
     Standard And Nonstandard English
     Easily Confused Words
     Spelling

Essentials Of General Psychology (SS-664)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     What Is Psychology?
     How Psychologists Do
     Genes, Evolution, And The Environment
     The Brain: Source Of Mind And Self
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Body Rhythms And Mental States
     Sensation And Perception
     Learning And Conditioning
     Behavior In Social And Cultural Context
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Thinking And Intelligence
     Memory
     Emotion
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Motivation
     Personality
     Development Over The Lifespan
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Health Stress And Coping
     Psychological Disorders
     Approaches To Treatment And Therapy

Introduction To World History (SS-777)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     The Birth Of Civilization
     The Four Great Revolutions In Thought And Religion
     Greek And Hellenistic Civilization
     Iran, India, And Inner Asia To 200 C.E.
     Africa: Early History To 1000 C.E.
     Republican And Imperial Rome
     Chinas First Empire 221 B.C.E.-589 C.E
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Imperial China 589 B.C.E. 1368 C.E
     Japan: Early History To 1467
     Iran And India Before Islam
     The Formation Of Islamic Civilization 622945
     The Byzantine Empire And Western Europe To 1000
     Islam In The Heartlands And Beyond, Ca. 10001600
     Ancient Civilizations Of The Americas
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Europe In The Early 1500s: Revival, Decline, And Renaissance
     Europe 15001650: Expansion, Reformation, And Religious Wars
     Africa Ca. 10001800
     Conquest And Exploitation: The Development Of The Transatlantic Economy
     East Asia In The Late Traditional Era
     State Building And Society In Early Modern Europe
     The Last Great Islamic Empires (15001800)
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     The Age Of European Enlightenment
     Revolutions In The Transatlantic World
     In Nineteenth-Century Europe And North America, 18151880
     Northern Transatlantic Economy And Society, 18151914
     Latin America: From Independence To The 1940s
     India, The Islamic Heartlands, And Africa: The Challenge Of Modernity (18001945)
     Modern East Asia
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Imperialism And World War I
     Depression, European Dictators, And The American New Deal
     World War Ii
     The West Since World War Ii
     East Asia: The Recent Decades
     Postcolonialism And Beyond: Latin America, Africa, Asia, And The Middle East

Introduction To Economics (SS-812)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Economics: Foundations And Models
     Trade-Offs, Comparative Advantage, And The Market System
     Where Prices Come From: The Interaction Of Demand And Supply
     Market Efficiency And Market Failure
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Firms, The Stock Market, And Corporate Governance
     Consumer Choice And Elasticity
     Technology, Production, And Costs
     Firms In Perfectly Competitive Markets
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Monopoly And Antitrust Policy
     Monopolistic Competition And Oligopoly
     Gdp: Measuring Total Production And Income
     Unemployment And Inflation
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Economic Growth And Business Cycles
     Aggregate Demand And Aggregate Supply Analysis
     Money, Banks, And The Federal Reserve System
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Monetary Policy
     Fiscal Policy
     Comparative Advantage, International Trade, And Exchange Rates

Introduction To English Linguistics (ENG-028)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Introduction
     Pragmatics
     Semantics
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Syntax
     Morphology
     Phonology
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Language Variation
     First-Language Acquisition
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Second-Language Acquisition
     Writing Language
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Language Processing
     The Neurology Of Language
     Conclusion

Introduction To English Grammar (ENG-270)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Introduction
     Varieties Of English
     The Morphology Of English
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Form-Class Words
     Structure-Class Words
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Phrases
     Five Basic Sentence Types
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Basic Sentence Transformations
     Finite Verb Clauses, Part I: Adverbial And Adjectival Clauses
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Finite Verb Clauses, Part Ii: Nominal Clauses
     Nonfinite Verb Phrases, Part I: Infinitive Phrases
     Nonfinite Verb Phrases, Part Ii: Participle And Gerund Phrases

Introduction To English Literature (ENG-299)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Literature And The Writing Process
     Growing Up/Growing Older: Fiction
     Growing Up/Growing Older: Poetry
     Growing Up/Growing Older: Drama
     Growing Up/Growing Older: Non Fiction
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Women And Men: Fiction
     Women And Men: Poetry
     Women And Men: Drama
     Women And Men: Non Fiction
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Money And Work: Fiction
     Money And Work: Poetry
     Money And Work: Drama
     Money And Work: Non Fiction
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Peace And War: Fiction
     Peace And War: Poetry
     Peace And War: Drama
     Peace And War: Non Fiction
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Varieties Of Protest: Fiction
     Varieties Of Protest: Poetry
     Varieties Of Protest: Drama
     Varieties Of Protest: Non Fiction

Introduction To Theatre (ENG-339)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Introduction: The Impulse To Perform
     Theatre And Society
     The Playwrights Vision Looking At Joe Turners Come And Gone By August Wilson
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     The Art Of The Actor
     The Director
     The Designers
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     The Musical Theatre: Composers, Lyricists And Choreographers Origins Of Musical Theatre
     Understanding Style: Realism
     Expressing A World View Through Realism
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Understanding Style: Theatricalism
     Expressing A Worldview Through Theatricalism Looking At Angels In America
     The Elements Of Drama And Dramatic Structure
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Genre
     The Project Looking At Buried Child By Sam Shepard

Fundamentals Of Fiction (ENG-583)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:

Introduction To Poetry (ENG-632)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Reading A Poem
     Listening To A Voice
     Words
     Saying And Suggesting
     Imagery
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Figures Of Speech
     Song
     Sound
     Rhythm
     Closed Form
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Open Form
     Symbol
     Myth And Narrative
     Poetry And Personal Identity
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Translation
     Critical Casebook: Latin American Poetry
     Recognizing Excellence
     What Is Poetry?
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Two Critical Casebooks: Emily Dickinson And Langston Hughes
     Writing About Literature
     Writing A Research Paper
     Critical Approaches To Literature