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Anyone take one of the FREE Certificate Programs direct from Hillsdale College? - Life Long Learning - 11-28-2018
It looks like are about 40-hours each? I have not taken one, but the *Certificate of Completion - American Heritage—From Colonial Settlement to the Current Day looks neat?
Hillsdale College
American Constitutional Studies
*Certificate of Completion - American Heritage—From Colonial Settlement to the Current Day
*Certificate of Completion - Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution
*Certificate of Completion - Constitution 201: The Progressive Rejection of the Founding and
*Certificate of Completion – The Presidency and the Constitution
*Certificate of Completion – The Federalist Papers
*Certificate of Completion - The U.S. Supreme Court
*Certificate of Completion - Winston Churchill and Statesmanship
*Certificate of Completion - Athens and Sparta
If you complete the Final Quiz for each course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion.
All of the FREE course materials are provided online, including the reading selections.
There are no set deadlines to complete the course material. You may work at your own pace.
If you complete the Final Quiz for each course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion
These courses are best suited for those of a high school grade level and above.
You may begin anytime.
The lecture videos are streamed through YouTube
Each lecture is approximately 40 minutes in length.
https://online.hillsdale.edu/FAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NAAFnN7RCc
https://online.hillsdale.edu/dashboard/courses
Hillsdale College, located in Hillsdale, Michigan, was founded in 1844. It is an independent, coeducational, residential liberal arts college. It has an undergraduate student body of about 1400 students.
RE: Anyone take one of the FREE Certificate Programs direct from Hillsdale College? - MNomadic - 11-28-2018
Those do look interesting(particularly the constitution courses) but I've got too many other ACE/NCCRS courses on my to-do list right now(not to mention my last few TESU courses).
RE: Anyone take one of the FREE Certificate Programs direct from Hillsdale College? - sanantone - 11-28-2018
They offer these courses for free with a political agenda, so I had no interest in them.
RE: Anyone take one of the FREE Certificate Programs direct from Hillsdale College? - Life Long Learning - 11-28-2018
(11-28-2018, 10:59 PM)sanantone Wrote: They offer these courses for free with a political agenda, so I had no interest in them.
I paid for courses with a political agenda at U. of Oregon. I have so many lib colleges one non will not hurt me?
For a college, it has a unique history.
Hillsdale was the first American college to prohibit in its charter any discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin. Associated with the anti-slavery movement from its earliest days, it attracted to its campus anti-slavery leaders such as Frederick Douglass and Edward Everett, who preceded Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. Several of the College’s leading men were instrumental in founding the new Republican party up the road in Jackson, Michigan, in 1854. And Hillsdale sent a larger percentage of its students to fight for the Union in the Civil War than any other American college or university except West Point. Two of those Hillsdale veterans helped carry Lincoln’s casket to the slain president’s final resting place in Springfield, Illinois.
I do agree with MNomadic that I have 3.5 years of my GI Bill to use first. Maybe in 4 years, I will look at them.
RE: Anyone take one of the FREE Certificate Programs direct from Hillsdale College? - dfrecore - 11-29-2018
I'm going to start with Constitution 101!! I don't have much of an interest getting another degree, but I do have an interest in learning.
RE: Anyone take one of the FREE Certificate Programs direct from Hillsdale College? - Life Long Learning - 11-29-2018
(11-29-2018, 12:26 AM)dfrecore Wrote: I'm going to start with Constitution 101!! I don't have much of an interest getting another degree, but I do have an interest in learning.
After you complete it tell us what it was like? Total Time? How hard is the final test?
RE: Anyone take one of the FREE Certificate Programs direct from Hillsdale College? - dfrecore - 11-29-2018
(11-29-2018, 12:52 AM)Life Long Learning Wrote:(11-29-2018, 12:26 AM)dfrecore Wrote: I'm going to start with Constitution 101!! I don't have much of an interest getting another degree, but I do have an interest in learning.
After you complete it tell us what it was like? Total Time? How hard is the final test?
I will. I'm usually pretty slow at these things, so don't hold your breath!
RE: Anyone take one of the FREE Certificate Programs direct from Hillsdale College? - sanantone - 11-29-2018
(11-28-2018, 11:05 PM)Life Long Learning Wrote:(11-28-2018, 10:59 PM)sanantone Wrote: They offer these courses for free with a political agenda, so I had no interest in them.
I paid for courses with a political agenda at U. of Oregon. I have so many lib colleges one non will not hurt me?
For a college, it has a unique history.
Hillsdale was the first American college to prohibit in its charter any discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin. Associated with the anti-slavery movement from its earliest days, it attracted to its campus anti-slavery leaders such as Frederick Douglass and Edward Everett, who preceded Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. Several of the College’s leading men were instrumental in founding the new Republican party up the road in Jackson, Michigan, in 1854. And Hillsdale sent a larger percentage of its students to fight for the Union in the Civil War than any other American college or university except West Point. Two of those Hillsdale veterans helped carry Lincoln’s casket to the slain president’s final resting place in Springfield, Illinois.
I do agree with MNomadic that I have 3.5 years of my GI Bill to use first. Maybe in 4 years, I will look at them.
You gotta do what you gotta do to earn a degree, but I'm not subjecting myself to that for no reason. I had enough of it in high school.
RE: Anyone take one of the FREE Certificate Programs direct from Hillsdale College? - vetvso - 11-29-2018
I don't see them listed in ACE or am I missing something. Under the FAQ I saw no credit but mayabe NCCRS?
RE: Anyone take one of the FREE Certificate Programs direct from Hillsdale College? - MNomadic - 11-29-2018
(11-29-2018, 08:05 AM)vetvso Wrote: I don't see them listed in ACE or am I missing something. Under the FAQ I saw no credit but mayabe NCCRS?
They're not ACE or NCCRS approved as far as I can tell. So one would only be taking the courses for fun.