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Course Listings for 2023-2024 Academic Year

Please note: Course cost DOES NOT include student registration fee or family technology fee. Course offerings are subject to change based on student enrollment.

All courses listed meet on the campus of Houston Christian University.
Meeting days are Tuesday/Thursday unless otherwise noted.

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  • CNMA 1302: The Art of Cinema & New Media
    Professor Chris Hartwell
    Recommended for 9th-12th grade students.

    A comprehensive overview of the video production process, including an introduction to camera operation, lighting and sound equipment, general set protocols, post-production software, and workflow. Students will also be introduced to cinematic storytelling with the chance to make short films and other productions throughout the class.

    Tuesday/Thursday | 9:30-10:45 am
    $1000 per year, 3 units of transferable college credit.

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  • English 1313: Composition and Literature I
    Professor Sarah Pfannenschmidt
    Recommended for 9th-12th grade students. This course is a pre-requisite for ENGL 1323.

    A student-driven, Socratic-style literature class that integrates training in composition and rhetoric. Students will complete a research paper in MLA format.

    Reading list includes Virgil’s Aeneid, Sophocles’ Antigone, Aristotle’s Poetics, Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and more.

    We recommend that the course be counted as high school English credit. Students will earn three undergraduate credit hours in English 1313 from Houston Christian University.

    Tuesday/Thursday | 11:00 am-12:15 pm
    $1000 per course, 3 units of transferable college credit.

    ENGL 1313 Book List 2023-24

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  • Philosophy 1313: Introduction to Philosophy
    Dr. Shannon Holzer
    Recommended for 10th-12th grade students.

    A student-driven, Socratic-style classroom environment designed to familiarize the student with the meaning and relevance of philosophy through a study of its main problems and the principal theories that have been proposed as solutions to them. The guiding question for this course is “What is a human being?”

    Reading list includes Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Pascal, Wittgenstein, Lewis, and much more.

    We recommend that this course be counted as either high school history, philosophy, or English credit. Students will earn three undergraduate credit hours in Philosophy 1313 from Houston Christian University.

    Tuesday/Thursday | 2:00-3:15 pm
    $1000 per year, 3 units of transferable college credit.

    PHIL 1313 Book List 2023-24

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  • High school juniors and seniors are also eligible to enroll in traditional one-semester undergraduate courses alongside college students. Interested students should check the  course catalog, then email TheAcademy@hbu.edu for class availability and dean’s approval.

    NOTE: these courses may meet on different days/times than the two-semester Academy courses.

    $1000 per 3-credit course, transferable college credit.

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