Catholic colleges and distance education

[Gene_C]

Hi all,

I am looking to finish my undergrad education at a Catholic college that offers distance education courses.

Does anyone know of any? Is there an organization I can query?

Thanks.

Peace,
Gene

 

[LSK]

I think Franciscan University at Stubenville does. St Mary’s in Moraga offers some online classes in certain subject as does Santa Clara…what is your major?

 

[Gene_C]

Hi LSK,

My major is/was business journalism. I’m hoping to add in some life experience credits and seven Religion courses from a Lutheran college.

I think Franciscan only offers grad courses online, an MA in Theology. I’ll check out the other two.

Thanks,
Gene

 

[LSK]

Hi, Gene…also check out Ave Maria University in Florida and Catholic University in Washington DC…also Notre Dame…USF in San Franciso…its a Jesuit University so they will give you a run for your money…

 

[Gene_C]

Hi LSK,

Staff apologist Michelle Arnold mentioned Catholic Distance University to me, at www.cdu.edu. It looks good to me.

Peace,
Gene

 

[knute]

Well, I hope CDU has improved since I tried a few courses a couple years back. They have good, solid Catholic materials but the correspondance was poor. If I had a question, I was to fill out a sheet and wait weeks for an answer via snail mail. Nothing emailed or online. Seemed crazy in the age of internet. Also, the tests seemed a little nickpicky. As I said, the reading materials were good, but they would pick out small, trivial, insignificant details for questions which was frustrating. Almost as if they were trying to trick you into a wrong answer so their coursework could be deemed “rigorous.” My GPA though graduate school was about 3.85 and I thought their tests were silly (though I got a 89%).