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Ascend
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Whether you are pursuing a degree or not, Ascend Challenge brings three new non-accredited life courses focused on tactical communication, cultural engagement, and finance.
4
Ascend
Online
Courses
Ascend Challenge brings three new non-accredited life courses focused on tactical communication, cultural engagement, and finance.
4
Ascend
Online
Courses
Whether you are pursuing a degree or not, Ascend Challenge brings three new non-accredited life courses focused on tactical communication, cultural engagement, and finance.
LIFE COURSE #1
Cultural Engagement
In a world where many Christian students succumb to, assimilate into, or falter against the culture, a different course of action is desperately needed. This course equips students with the wisdom and ability to actively, graciously, and offensively — rather than defensively — engage with the world, and to make discerning, God-honoring decisions in a complex and antagonistic culture.
LIFE COURSE #2
Tactical Communication
This course equips students with “next level” relationship skills in areas like ethical communication, conflict, negotiation, persuasion, de-escalation, and more. Students will better understand the components of successful, healthy communication, all in the context of a Biblical understanding of relationships and the Imago Dei.
LIFE COURSE #3
Financial Advantage
In a culture that prioritizes instant gratification, excess, and disinhibition, young adults are called to a life of faithfulness and wisdom. In this course, students gain a deeper understanding of concepts such as retirement, investing, money mindsets, underlying economic principles, business versus personal finance, and more. This course equips students with the knowledge needed to better steward their resources in a selfless, kingdom-oriented, God-honoring manner.
GENERAL EDUCATION & ELECTIVE COURSES
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These are examples of courses available to Ascend students through Unbound’s course partners.
The purpose of the course is for students to develop a logical, conceptual, and analytical understanding of microeconomic principles. This course introduces foundational concepts of economic principles, such as opportunity costs as well as supply and demand, and explores primary microeconomic principles, including efficiency and fairness in markets,
government actions and their impacts, the decisions that consumers and producers make, different market structures from perfect competition to monopoly, and factor markets and income distribution. Students are presented with real-world contemporary examples that apply theory to practice, demonstrating the relevance of microeconomic thought.
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of American government and politics, focusing on the historical evolution of government and policies, the major institutions, and the major processes. Course goals include developing an interest in and understanding of today’s government, policy development, and politics as well as developing critical thinking and information-literacy skills in the areas of government and politics. Topics include the Constitution, federalism, civil rights and civil liberties, the structure and processes of the three branches of government, political socialization, interest groups and public opinion, political parties and the election process, as well as basic U.S. social, economic, and foreign policy.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of key sociological
topics and encourages students to think critically about the social world. Students develop the sociological imagination and examine society through the main sociological paradigms. Topics include culture, social stratification, race, gender, family, health, politics, and the environment.
This course focuses on writing in a variety of rhetorical modes including exposition, argument, and an introduction to research
skills. Students will write at least four major essays and complete a number of informal writing assignments. At least one major essay
involves a literary work.
This course focuses on source-based writing, research writing, and literary analysis. Students will write at least four major essays and complete a number of informal writing assignments. Major essays include a research paper on a current topic and an analytical
essay on a major work of literature. Prerequisite: College Writing I.
This course provides an introduction to the general field of psychology. Emphasizes
concepts helpful for understanding contemporary psychology and
those basic to further study.
This is a survey course that focuses on the political, military, social, economic, and religious history of the United States from the eve of colonization through Reconstruction.