Online Advantage Courses

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Connect with a representative by emailing advantage@oru.edu or by calling 918.495.6670.

Students can take up to 10 credit hours per semester. Course cost per credit hour is as follows:

• $75–Per one credit hour course
• $150–Per two credit hour course
• $225–Per three credit hour course
• $300–Per four credit hour course

Additional Costs

• There are no application or general fees
• A $70 fee is incurred per course which covers the cost of your digital textbook

Payment Information

• Payment in full or payment arrangements through a payment plan must be made prior to the start of each course.
• To set up a payment plan, please connect with an Advantage Enrollment Counselor at 918.495.6117 or advantage@oru.edu.

Advantage Program Scholarship

Advantage students will receive a one-time $500 scholarship when they matriculate to ORU as full-time, residential undergraduate students.

The following courses are offered online for both Fall and Spring semesters.

Looking for a course that is currently not offered? Connect with an Advantage Representative to request an alternative course at advantage@oru.edu or by calling 918.495.6117.

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BLIT 111: Christian Life I: Old Testament

• Credit Hours: 2
• Course Description: A historical-thematic survey of the Old Testament. Gives special attention to the content of the Old Testament, with emphasis on the cultural, historical, and geographical background to the text and to the practical application of major Old Testament themes. Requires students to read through the Old Testament.

BLIT 122: Christian Life II: New Testament

• Credit Hours: 2
• Course Description: A historical-thematic survey of the New Testament. Gives special attention to the content of the New Testament, with emphasis on the cultural, historical, and geographical background to the text and to the practical application of major New Testament themes. Requires students to read through the New Testament.

BIO 101: Principles of Biology Lecture & Lab

• Credit Hours: 4
• Course Description: A study of the main principles of life common to both plants and animals, including scientific methods, levels of organization, cell structure and function, photosynthesis, respiration, molecular and Mendelian genetics, reproduction, development, evolution, classification, behavior and ecology, and their appropriate applications for solving current biological problems. Lab exercises, experiments, and audiovisual presentations involving cells, respiration, photosynthesis, classical and molecular genetics, protein synthesis, enzyme action, reproduction, development, behavior, and ecology are included.

BUS 201: Principles of Macroeconomics

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: An overview of basic economic concepts and institutions. Modern national income formation theory; economic fluctuations, money, banking, monetary and fiscal policy; economic stabilization theory and policy; the public sector, aggregate demand, aggregate supply, Keynesian Theory, monetary theory; theory of economic growth and development; and comparative economic systems.

CHE 101: Principles of Chemistry Lecture & Lab

• Credit Hours: 4
• Course Description: An introductory course requiring no prior background in chemistry. Emphasizes applying chemical principles to everyday situations and acquaints the student with the periodic table and chemical nomenclature. Lab experiences provide the student with an opportunity to apply the scientific method focusing on the relationship of chemistry to daily life.

COM 101: Oral Communication

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: An investigation of basic principles of communication and their application to intrapersonal, interpersonal, small group, and public communication.

COMP 099: Preparation for Composition I

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: This course provides fundamental prescriptive grammar instruction with a communicative approach in a self-directed format. Students sharpen their skills in the following areas: punctuation, mechanics, spelling, sentence formation, and language usage. Students learn from their own mistakes, while improving their writing skills. Through the use of an online program that provides feedback, the student is provided with numerous opportunities to apply newly learned writing skills to various writing activities. The course also provides writing practice, with feedback from the instructor.
• Please note that this course is not transferrable as college credit.
• The course will be offered based on demand. To enroll, please submit your request at least one month prior to the start of the term.

COMP 101: Composition 101: College Reading & Writing

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: Focuses on writing in response to readings in the humanities and on organization of essay writing, such as narration, description, illustration, and argumentation. Includes review of grammar and mechanics.

COMP 102: Composition 102: Reading & Writing in the Liberal Arts

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: Writing based on selected readings (essay, nonfiction, poetry, and short story), summary and paraphrase, and at least five formal essays including synthesis, analysis, and critique. Emphasizes analytical thinking, critical reading, and ethical incorporation of sources. Includes a five to eight-page research paper. Students participate in peer review and revisions.
• Please note that COMP 101 is a prerequisite for this course.

ENG 201: Introduction to Literature

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: This
  English course emphasizes analysis skills and techniques for writing about literature. Includes representative readings from fiction, poetry, and drama, with an emphasis on the elements of literature. Includes reading from various genres, exploring critical approaches, and writing analytical and evaluative essays.
• Please note that COMP 102 is a prerequisite for this course. 

FIN 244: Personal Financial Planning

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: Focuses on the key concepts, tools and techniques of contemporary personal finance. Financial problems are addressed in the context as a result of the lack of management rather than lack of money. Topics discussed to avoid financial problems include the time value of money, the importance of saving, how to establish good credit and a high credit score, the correct use of credit, the use of credit cards, the establishment of financial goals, how to reduce the costs of automobile and life insurance, purchase of an automobile, and rent versus purchase of a house.

FRE 101: Elementary French I

• Credit Hours: 4
• Course Description: A beginning course in French. Covers grammar and composition, but emphasizes oral/aural skills. Includes possessives, commands, present indicative, passe compose, and futur proche. Covers most activities listed in the ACTFL novice mid competencies. Due to the rigor of this course, it is not recommended for first-time Advantage students.

FRE 102: Elementary French II

• Credit Hours: 4
• Course Description: A continuation of FRE 101. Includes oral practice and covers certain functions of language such as describing and narrating past events, using future and imperfect
  tenses, expressing opinions and emotions, and giving advice.
• Please note that FRE 101 is a prerequisite for this course. 

GOV 101: American Government & Politics

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: A study of the institutions and processes of American government and politics at the national, state and local levels, with attention to policy-making and the relationship between citizenship and Christian faith.
• This course is recommended for high school juniors and seniors only.

HIS 110: American History Survey

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: An introduction of the main political, economic, social, foreign policy, and cultural developments in American history since 1760. Students develop a personal synthesis of American history.

HIS 111: American History Survey II

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: An introduction of the main political, economic, social, foreign policy, and cultural developments in American history since 1877. Students develop a personal synthesis of American history.

HUM 201: Wisdom of the Ancient World

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: An exploration of the genesis of Western philosophy, ethical reasoning, and behavior from the beginning of written history until the end of the Hellenistic Age.

HUM 202: Classical Roman Civilization

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: A historical survey and worldview synthesis emphasizing philosophical, religious, political, economic, artistic, and aesthetic developments of human culture and civilization from the dawn of history to 1300 AD. Focuses on the ancient world, Greece and the classical past of the Western world, the Roman Empire, and European Middle Ages to 1300 AD.

HUM 203: Learning from the Late Middle Ages

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: A historical survey and worldview synthesis emphasizing philosophical, religious, political, economic, artistic, and aesthetic developments of human culture and civilization from 1300 to 1648. Focuses on the Renaissance, the Reformation Age, and the Scientific Revolution.

HUM 204: Modern Western Civilization

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: A historical survey and worldview synthesis emphasizing philosophical, religious, political, economic, artistic, and aesthetic developments of human culture and civilization from 1800 to the present. The focus is on understanding how the evolving dialectic of empiricism and its impact upon philosophy, the arts social institutions, history and moves have produced the Post-Modern and, punitively, Post-Christian 21st Century.

LDR 999: College Success Strategies

• Credit Hours: 1
• Course Description:This course provides an overview of ORU's University Outcomes, introduces students to Brightspace, ORU's learning management system, and teaches college success strategies. Through practical activities and assignments, students are equipped with the technological skills needed to navigate Brightspace and are taught strategies and skills needed to excel in college and beyond.

MAT 099: Introduction to College Mathematics

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: A non-specialized course in mathematics that surveys the basic concepts of high school mathematics.  This course does not count toward a major or minor in mathematics or satisfy general education requirements.  It increases the number of hours in a degree program by three credit hours. 
• Please note that this course is not transferrable as college credit.
• The course will be offered based on demand. To enroll, please submit your request at least one month prior to the start of the term.

MAT 105: College Algebra

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: A treatment that develops the concepts of number systems, absolute value, inequality, domain, range, local extremes, zeros, relations, and functions. Functions studied include those that are linear, polynomial, radical, absolute value, exponential, and logarithmic.

MAT 106: Trigonometry

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: A continuation of MAT 105. The concepts developed in the first course are expanded and considered in relationships to rational functions, trigonometric functions and conic sections.
• Please note that MAT 105 is a prerequisite to this course. 

MAT 232: Elementary Statistics 

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: Designed for students of social and health sciences, education, and business. Includes both descriptive and inferential methods and treats the fundamental concepts exemplified by frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, and variability; the interpretation of results; hypothesis testing; regression; analysis of variance; and chi-square. (Does not count towards major or minor in mathematics.)
• Please note that MAT 105 is a prerequisite to this course. 

PHY 101: General Physics I Lecture & Lab

• Credit Hours: 4
• Course Description: An introduction to the laws and principles of physics including mechanics, heat, and sound. (Primarily for liberal arts and biological science students. Not applicable to a physics major or minor.) Lab exercises supplement the objectives taught in the lecture portion of the course.
• Please note that high school algebra is a pre-requisite to PHY 101.

PHY 102: General Physics II Lecture & Lab

• Credit Hours:: 4
• Course Description: A continuation of PHY 101 Lecture. Includes electricity, magnetism, light, and modern physics. Lab exercises supplement the objectives taught in the lecture portion of the course.
• Please note that PHY 101 is a prerequisite for this course.  

PSY 201: Principles of Psychology

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: A survey of the basic principles of psychology, including development, motivation, emotion, learning, intelligence, physiological aspects, sensory processes, perception, attention, measurement and personality.
• Please note that COMP 101 is a prerequisite for this course. 

READ 099: Preparation for College Reading

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: Develops and strengthens basic reading skills including structural analysis, contextual analysis, reading comprehension, and inference skills. Emphasizes vocabulary development as well as various aids to reading.
• Please note that this course is not transferrable as college credit.
• The course will be offered based on demand. To enroll, please submit your request at least one month prior to the start of the term.

SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: A survey course covering most of the basic categories of the sociology curriculum with an emphasis on the scientific method of studying social interaction and the products of social interaction, including culture, socialization and the major institutions of society.

SPA 101: Elementary Spanish I

• Credit Hours: 4
• Course Description: A beginning course in Spanish. Covers aural/oral work, grammar, and composition, including possessives, formal commands, present indicatives, progressives, and reflexives. Covers most activities listed in the ACTFL novice mid competencies. This course does not count toward minor, or major, but can be used for elective credit. Due to the rigor of this course, it is not recommended for first-time Advantage students.

SPA 102: Elementary Spanish II

• Credit Hours: 4
• Course Description: A continuation of SPA 101. Includes oral practice and covers preterite, imperfect and present subjunctive tenses as well as double object pronouns.
• Please note that SPA 101 is a prerequisite for this course. 

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Virtual Course Descriptions

Virtual courses differ from our online asynchronous courses, as Virtual courses are taught in a LIVE format on specific days and times. These courses are available to select students who meet the qualifications below:

• You are an existing Advantage Program student
• You are homeschooled or you attend Epic Charter Schools
• You are a junior or senior in high school (at least 16 years old)
• You have a 3.0 high school GPA (note: as well as a 3.0 ORU GPA)

If you meet the qualifications above and would like to enroll in one of these Virtual courses, please contact advantage@oru.edu. 

BIB 222: Old Testament Introduction (Fall Semester Only)

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: A general introduction to the various books of the Old Testament dealing with the problems of canon, authorship, composition, date of writing, and providing some background in the cultural, historical, geographical, and archaeological setting in which the Bible events occurred.

BIB 261: New Testament Introduction (Spring Semester Only)

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: A general introduction to the various books of the New Testament with an emphasis on content and an examination of questions such as authorship, source, reliability, and canonicity.

BUS 100: Introduction to Business

• Credit Hours: 2
• Course Description: A foundational overview of business fundamentals and practice from a Christian perspective.  Forms of business ownership, management, marketing, accounting, finance, information systems, professional development, career readiness strategies, and Christian calling in business.

HLSS 110: FIELD EXPERIENCE PRINCIPLES

• Credit Hours: 1.5
• Course Description: A course designed to provide basic principles of sport management through field experiences.  The course offers the student opportunities to observe events in the sport management profession.  The opportunities will include professional, collegiate, high-school, non-profit and other sports related settings.

HLSS 206: INTRODUCTION TO SPORTS MANAGEMENT

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: An overview of the field of sports management. Covers the types of careers, training, experiences, course of study, as well as characteristics of a successful sports manager.

MGT 130: Principles of Management

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: An introductory course presenting the basic theories, functions, and practice of management, including the analysis and evaluation of the planning, organization, controlling, and leadership responsibilities of a manager. Current and possible future trends in management are explored as is managing in a culturally-diverse and global environment and ethical decision-making practices.

PED 203: Foundations and Methods of Education

• Credit Hours: 3
• Course Description: An introduction to education, acquainting the student with the history, philosophy, profession procedures, and practices of American education in relation to social, political, religious, and economic factors. Examines significant current issues and Biblical principles of teaching.  Emphasizes individual and group career planning.