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Courses Offered by City Vision College


Our new Addiction Studies program will begin in 2008.

These three-credit courses currently under development:

  • Counseling Foundations
  • Drugs of Abuse
  • Family Issues and Recovery
  • Group Counseling Practices
  • Help for Alcoholics
  • Mental Illness and Addiction
  • Professional Practices
  • Recovery Dynamics
  • Sexual Issues in Addiction


For the starting dates of courses, see the Academic Calendar.

About the Courses

The City Vision College curriculum is a unique distance learning experience that incorporates the actual operations of a rescue mission or other approved nonprofit organization as both "laboratory" and "classroom." (see the required on-site projects). In order to maintain high educational standards, class sizes will be capped at 20 students.

Students with no current ministry affiliation are required to find an approved ministry at which they will serve as an intern for the duration of their enrollment.

At this time, most courses are only offered once a year.  The only exception is the New Student Orientation, which is required before students may enroll any other course.  It can be taken at any time. 

City Vision College adheres to the credit hour recommendations of the American Council on Education’s Credit Recommendation Evaluative Criteria.  It states “normally, academic credit is assigned on the basis of one semester credit hour for each 15 classroom contact hours plus 30 hours of outside preparation or equivalent.”  

Therefore, each three-credit ten-week course involves students in at least 135 hours of structured learning activities.

These include:

    • Assigned readings
    • Online audio and video presentations
    • Preparing written research projects
    • Proctored examinations
    • On-line discussion and collaboration with students and faculty
    • And, other guided learning experiences

Students spend approximately 2-4 hours per week in online learning activities. The rest of the course work involves directed observation, analysis, data gathering, and evaluation of various aspects of an urban mission's operations.

At least once a week, students visit a password-protected "virtual classroom." There they get new assigned learning projects, submit to and read from class message boards, and engage in scheduled chat sessions. Online study time can, for the most part, can be scheduled at the student's own convenience.

 

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