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Program Overview

  • Duration

    1 Year (Self-Paced)

    Can be done in 6 months

  • Total Courses

    10

  • Total Credit Hours

    60 Hours

In the History program, students delve into the study of the past, examining historical events, cultures, and societies. They learn historical research methods and critical analysis. Graduates are prepared for careers in history, research, education, and public history. They contribute to our understanding of the past, preservation of historical records, and the interpretation of history for future generations.

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 Mid Island 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.

Sociology

Sociology is a comprehensive course that offers you a global perspective to help you better understand your own lives, provides strong focus on social diversity that allows you to see the impact of race, class, and gender, and focuses

Economics

This Economics course engages you with familiar real-world examples and applications that bring economics to life. The course explains you with easy-to-understand concepts that how economics is a part of your everyday life, and how it can be a useful tool in making personal decisions and evaluating policy decisions. 

English Literature

English Literature course is an introduction to reading and writing, it’s founded on the principles of writing about literature. This course emphasizes literature, critical thinking, and the writing process. You learn how thinking, reading, and writing relate to one another by studying poetry, fiction, drama, art, music, and film.

Mass Communication

This course retains the emphasis on the challenges of today's media while building on its extensive coverage of media history, effects, technology, and culture. The five part-organization-the media, media channels, media messages, media effects and media issues-provides a framework for you to understand the big picture behind today's media issues.

World History

World History course present the big picture, to facilitate comparison and assessment of change, and to highlight major developments in world's history. This course emphasizes the global interactions of major civilizations so that you can compare and assess changes in the patterns of interaction and the impact of global forces.

Introduction to History

A true exploration of world history, course emphasizes single theme origins, cities, empires, religion, trade, migrations, revolutions, and technology. Geographically, it covers entire globe, though specific topics place greater emphasis on specific regions. It addresses how historians form, debate, and revises our historical understanding of the world.

World History II

This course offers a strong narrative exploration of world history. The course uses intriguing avenues of historical interpretation and examines all of the major areas of historical study: social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic. Course details highlights of history from Stone Age to 21st century’s uncertain future.

Advanced American History

This course shows how a brief presentation of political and social history. This course emphasizes liberty, equality, and power for a three-dimensional journey as you experience the transformation of America from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherers and agricultural Native Americans into the most powerful industrial nation on earth.

Twentieth Century America

This course weaves together the complex interaction of social, political, and historical forces that have shaped the United States and from which the American people have evolved by telling stories of people and of the nation and emphasizing that American history has never been the preserve of any particular region.

Western Civilization II

This course takes a new approach to telling the story of Western Civilization. Rather than looking at Western Civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, this course examines the changing nature of West how the definition of West has evolved and transformed throughout history.

Cost of Attendance

Tuition Fee Breakdown Cost
MASTERS DEGREE $27,000
Medical Insurance $0.00
Personal Expenses $0.00
Study Materials $0.00
Food Cost $0.00
Total Tuition Fee $27,000
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Our Eligibility Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor's Degree or equiv. international education

Credit Hours

60 Hours

Course Duration

1 Year (Self-Paced)

Courses Offered

10

Sociology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The sociological perspective
    Sociological investigation
    Culture
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Society
    Socialization
    Social interaction in everyday life
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Groups and organizations
    Sexuality and society
    Deviance
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Social stratification
    Social class in the united states
    Global stratification
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Gender stratification
    Race and ethnicity
    Aging and the elderly
    The economy and work
    Politics and government
    Families
    Religion
    Education
    Health and medicine
    Population, urbanization, and the environment
    Collective behavior and social movements
    Social change: traditional, modern, and postmodern societies

Economics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The economic perspective.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Production and trade.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Demand and supply.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The power of prices.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Measuring national output.

English literature

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fiction: an overview.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Structure: the organization of stories.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Characters: the people in fiction.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Point of view: the position or stance of the works narrator or speaker.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Setting: the background of place, objects, and culture in stories.
    Tone and style: the words that convey attitudes in fiction.
    Symbolism and allegory: keys to extended meaning.
    Idea or theme: the meaning and the message in fiction.
    Six stories for additional enjoyment and study.
    Meeting poetry: an overview.

Mass communication

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Mass media literacy
    Books
    Newspapers
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Magazines
    Sound recording
    Movies
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Radio
    Television
    Internet
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    News
    Public relations
    Advertising
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Entertainment
    Research
    Mass communication
    Mass media effects
    Mass media and society
    Global mass media
    Mass media and governance
    Law
    Ethics
    Visual messages
    Media and political systems

World History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    From human prehistory to the rise of agriculture
    Early civilization
    Nomadic societies
    Classical civilization: china
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Classical civilization: india
    Classical civilization in the mediterranean: persia, greece and rome
    The classical period: directions, diversities, and declines by 500 c.e.
    The rise of islam: civilization in the middle east
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    India and southeast asia under the impact of islam
    Africa and islam
    East european civilization: byzantium and russia
    Western civilization: the middle ages
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The spread of east asian civilization
    Centers of civilization in the americas
    The mongol interlude and the end of the postclassical period
    The west and the world: discovery, colonization, and trade
    Western civilization changes shape in the early modern centuries
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The rise of eastern europe
    The ottoman and mughal empires
    East asia: vital trends in politics and trade
    The first industrial revolution: western society, 17801914
    World economy and western imperialism: africa and south asia
    The settler societies: the west on frontiers
    The development of latin american civilization
    The middle east and china in the imperialist century
    Russia and japan: industrialization outside the west
    World war i and the end of an era
    The west in the contemporary period
    Eastern european civilization
    East asia in the 20th- 22nd centuries
    India and southeast asia

Introduction to History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The dry bones speak.
    From village community to city-state.
    Rivervalley civilizations.
    A polycentric world.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Dawn of the empires.
    Rome and the barbarians.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    China.
    Indian empires.
    Hinduism and buddhism.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Judaism and christianity.
    Islam.
    Establishing world trade routes.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    European visions.
    The unification of world trade.
    Migration.
    Political revolutions in europe and the americas.
    The industrial revolution.
    Nationalism, imperialism, and resistance.
    Methods of mass production and destruction.
    World war ii and the cold war.
    Cold war and new nations.
    China and india.
    New public identities.
    Regional identities and the twenty-first century.

World History II

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Stone age societies and the earliest civilizations of the near east
    Early chinese civilization:
    Early indian civilizations
    Greece
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    African beginnings:
    Culture, power, and trade in the era of asian hegemony, 2201350
    The great dynastic empires of eurasia, 13001650
    East asian cultural and political systems, 13001650
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    European cultural and religious transformations
    State development in europe:
    Absolutism and limited central power in europe, 16501774:
    New ideas and their political consequences:
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Asian and middle eastern empires and nations, 16501815
    Europe, 1815-1914:
    Imperialism and modernity in asia and the pacific, 18151914:
    World war i and its economic and political consequences
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Forging new nations in asia, 19101950
    National movements and the drive for independence in the middle east and africa from the 1920s to 1950s
    Asia and the south pacific since 1945:
    Into the 21st century: an uncertain future

Advanced American History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    When old worlds collide: contact, conquest, catastrophe.
    The challenge to spain and the settlement of north america.
    England discovers its colonies: empire, liberty, and expansion.
    Provincial america and the struggle for a continent.
    Reform, resistance, revolution.
    The revolutionary republic.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The democratic republic, 1790 and ndash;1820.
    Completing the revolution, 1789 and ndash;1815.
    The market revolution, 1815 and ndash;1860.
    Toward an american culture.
    Society, culture, and politics, 1820s and ndash;1840s.
    Jacksonian democracy.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Manifest destiny: an empire for liberty -- or slavery?
    The gathering tempest, 1853 and ndash;1860.
    Secession and civil war, 1860 and ndash;1862.
    A new birth of freedom, 1862 and ndash;1865.
    Reconstruction, 1863 and ndash;1877.
    Frontiers of change, politics of stalemate, 1865 and ndash;1890.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Economic change and the crisis of the 1890s.
    An industrial society, 1890 and ndash;1920.
    Progressivism.
    Becoming a world power, 1898 and ndash;1917.
    War and society, 1914 and ndash;1920.
    The 1920s.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The great depression and the new deal, 1929 and ndash;1939.
    America during the second world war.
    The age of containment, 1946 and ndash;1953.
    Affluence and its discontents, 1953 and ndash;1963.
    America during its longest war, 1963 and ndash;1974.
    Economic and social change in the late 20th century.
    Power and politics since 1974.

Twentieth Century America

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Reconstruction, 1863-1877.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Conquest and survival: the trans-mississippi west, 1860-1900.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The incorporation of america, 1865-1900.
    Commonwealth and empire, 1870-1900.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Urban america and the progressive era, 1900-1917.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    World war i, 1914-1920.
    The twenties, 1920-1929.
    The great depression and the new deal, 1929-1940.
    World war ii, 1941-1945.
    The cold war, 1945-1952.
    America at midcentury, 1952-1963.
    The civil rights movement, 1945-1966.
    War abroad, war at home, 1965-1974.
    The conservative ascendancy, 1974-1987.
    Toward a transnational america, since 1988.

Western Civilization II

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The medieval west in crisis.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The italian renaissance and beyond: the politics of culture.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The west and the world: the significance of global encounters, 1450-1650.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The reformation of religion.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The age of confessional division.
    Absolutism and state-building in europe, 1618-1715.
    The scientific revolution.
    The west and the world: empire, trade and war, 1650-1815.
    Eighteenth-century society and culture.
    The age of the french revolution, 1789-1815.
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