What is involved in taking a course through the Study Center?
Study Center courses are divided into 10 or 16 sessions. Each session is designed to take about a week to complete. For 10-session courses, students are given access to the course material for 14 weeks (providing 4 additional weeks to complete all assignments). For 16-session courses, students have 20 weeks to complete the course. Students may take the course as directed studies and work under the guidance of a course mentor, or audit the course and work through the material on their own. Each session of a course consists of 1 or 2 lectures that students will listen to online (with RealPlayer) and weekly reading assignments (usually about 2 chapters). Discussion questions over the lectures and reading assignments are provided in a session study guide that you can download as a Word (.doc) document or a PDF file. Along with weekly lectures and reading assignments, each course has 2 or 3 major projects. For example, the projects for the Preaching and Preachers course involve writing, pre
