Take a course once & count it twice -
for both high school and college credit!
As lifelong homeschoolers, CVCU leaders understand what it's like to want more academic support for your homeschool students in 8th to 12th grade. As subjects get more challenging, parents can be encouraged by knowing there is a team of scholars standing by to supplement and support what you're teaching at home.
Sadly, many parents drop out of the homeschool race in high school because they feel overwhelmed. We want to lighten the load for you so you can stay the course through the harvest years!
With dual-enrollment, our stellar professors (meet the team at www.CVCU.us) teach the classes at CVCU one day a week, and you count the completed class and college transcript toward your high school diploma at home. With our "summer scholar" program, your child can graduate from high school and college at the same time!
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Homeschooling works. You can do this; we can help.
WHY DUAL-ENROLL AT CVCU?
FAITH-BASED
Your student will learn in a safe, spiritually sound environment that nurtures his or her faith. Unlike the woke university systems training up atheist armies, CVCU professors teach from a Biblical worldview, inspiring students to think, reason, dream, and create through the lens of scripture.
DEBT-FREE
While other private universities charge exorbitant tuition rates for online and on-ground programs, CVCU offers affordable dual-enrollment credit in-person with our trusted and vetted professors. Your homeschooler can graduate college debt-free at CVCU!
MENTOR-DRIVEN
We become like the company we keep. CVCU students learn in a discipleship-based environment with classmates and professors who know you personally, invest in you relationally, and sharpen you spiritually. At CVCU, your homeschooler will find authentic, caring community and positive role models.
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Courses For Dual Enrollment
Tuesday 9:30 to 10:45 Wisdom Literature
Tuesday 11:00 to 12:15 Personal Finance
Tuesday 11:00 to 12:00 Advertising and Persuasive Communication
Tuesday 1:00 to 2:15 Introduction to Psychology ​​​
Thursday 9:30 to 10:45 Research Writing
Thursday 11:00 to 12:15 Interpersonal Communication
Thursday 11:00 to 12:15 Introduction to Electronics
Thursday 1:00 to 2:15 The Study and Practice of Music ​​
Course Descriptions
BIB 400 Wisdom Literature (3 credits)
An analysis and discussion of the books of wisdom in Old Testament Literature: Job, Psalms, and Proverbs. Students learn the geographical and cultural context as well as the predominant arguments, themes, and most well-known verses for each book. A theoretical as well as practical application of the Bible's wisdom literature.
RSCH 200: Practical Composition and Research Writing (3 credits)
In this course, students learn the basics of researching writing and design with assignments specific to their career field, including both qualitative and quantitate research and analysis. Students will be equipped to utilize the vernacular of their field, as well as become acquainted with the main voices and main researchers dominating the arguments, practices, or literature of their field. Students begin researching key elements of conflict in their career field in preparation for the senior capstone project.
RSCH 250 Research Methods & Design (3 credits)
This course will provide an opportunity for participants to establish or advance their understanding of research through critical exploration of research language, ethics, and approaches. The course introduces the language of research, ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research process within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Participants will use these theoretical underpinnings to begin to critically review literature relevant to their field or interests and determine how research findings are useful in forming their understanding of their career field.
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BUS 320 Introduction to Microeconomics (3 credits)
This course covers introduction to supply and demand, price controls, public policy, cost and revenue concepts, market structures, and consumer theory.
COM 102/310 Interpersonal Communication (3 units)
An examination of face-to-face interactions using cognitive learning, skills training, and experiential techniques to better understand and interact with others. Topics include verbal messages, nonverbal communication, listening, self-disclosure, conflict, gender roles, and intercultural communication.
PSY 150: General Psychology (3 credits)
This course provides students with an overview of the psychological discoveries concerning human behavior and mental processes over the past century. Students gain an understanding of psychological phenomena as well as the practical, everyday applications of psychological knowledge that will equip them to respond well in the home, the church, and the marketplace.
MUS 120 The Study and Practice of Music (3 credits)
A Kingdom-minded voice class where students will cultivate an understanding and appreciation of the art of singing, unlock new freedoms and experience an expansion of dormant gifts and talents, and connect the art form to their area of study through a collaborative process involving individual and group singing in varied musical styles (including Western art music), basic songwriting, gaining knowledge and awareness of healthy vocal function, and developing and strengthening performance skills.
COM 230 Advertising and Persuasive Communication (3 units)
An examination of theories of attitude and behavior change, specific techniques of persuasion, and analysis of contemporary practitioners. Students will gain experience in attitude creating their own persuasive strategy.
PD 150 Personal Finance (3 credits)
This course covers financial responsibilities, planning for the future, budgets, income and careers, spending and credit, saving and investing, helping students learn to master money and to become good stewards who use their wealth to establish and further the kingdom of God.
ENG 440 Introduction to Electronics (3 credits)
The Introduction to Electronics course introduces students to the basic concepts of electronics, including diodes, transistors, op amps, and basic operations of common applications.
Just like your homeschool living room, CVCU students learn in circles, not rows, and through discussion, not lecture. This relational model teaches interpersonal skills and provides opportunities for connectivity, encouragement, and friendship. Once students successfully complete their projects in the course, they can stay with CVCU or transfer to a partner university to complete their trade or degree!
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WHY IS A CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IMPORTANT?
Maybe you’ve heard the stat from Campus Renewal that 85% of kids from Christian homes who attend a secular school walk away from God by the end of the first year. That’s because the environment, the professors and the peers, often hold to a secular worldview, and we become like the company we keep. As a homeschooling parent and a college professor for 20 years, Dr. Lisa Dunne has personally witnessed the fallout in American academia. In city after city, she sees brilliant homeschool students getting lured in to state-funded community colleges, only to walk away from the faith by the end of the first semester. This is tragic!
State colleges are aggressively recruiting younger and younger students, which in California now includes 8th graders as part of their "middle college" program. These programs are billed as "free" because they are tax-funded, but at what price do we forfeit the souls of our children?
"For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?" - Mark 8:36
Instead of secular college classes the undermine faith, family, and freedom, CVCU partners with homeschooling parents, helping students formulate their faith and discover their destiny from 8th to 12th grade.
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WHAT IS DUAL ENROLLMENT? ​
Read on to learn more about what dual-enrollment is, where students can transfer their college credits, and what standards the State of California requires for high school graduates.
CVCU's dual-enrollment program provides affordable, faith-based dual-enrollment college classes for 8th to 12th grade students in order to support homeschooling parents, to inspire homeschooling students, and to offer college credit in a classroom culture of mutual encouragement, authentic dialogue, and biblical foundations.
CVCU Dual Enrollment is designed to provide a Christian college experience for 8th to 12th grade homeschoolers, offering concurrent college credit during high school. In this model, students take their general education courses once and count them twice, once for high school and once for college. Students then transfer their general education credits directly to a partner college, offering over 100 career-focused possibilities for their BA, BS, and graduate studies.
The California Department of Education requires 44 units for HS graduation, including the following:
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Three years of English
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Two years of math, including Algebra
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One year of biology
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One year of physical science
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Three years of social studies, including economics, American history, US history, American government and civics (AG, civics, and econ only require one semester)
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One year of visual or performing arts, language, or CTE
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Two years of PE
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One semester of "Ethnic studies" by 2027
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By 2030, one year of personal finance
Summary of General Education Requirements for an Associate's Degree:
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9 Units of Worldview and Biblical History
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9 Units of Written and Oral Communication
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9 Units of Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
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9 Units of History and Social Sciences
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6 Units of Arts and Humanities
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9 Units of Personal Development
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Units Required for AA Degree: Our program offers above and beyond the state level in preparing students for their dual-enrollment program. Students will complete 51 units of college-level work for an AA-degree level transfer. Each course listed below is one year in length, providing an annual 120 hours of study per class per year (including 32 hours of classroom time).
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Cost and Method: For an average tuition cost of $200 a month, students are taught in a personalized, Christian, inquiry-based model one day a week, earning their Associate of Arts (AA) degree by the time they graduate high school. CVCU professors and tutors are encouraging, nurturing, and equipped to bring out the best in each student, helping impart knowledge and inspire a love of learning.
Transferability: Students can transfer their successfully completed dual-enrollment courses to Chula Vista Christian University or to one of our partnership Christian universities, such as Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida or William Jessup University in Sacramento, CA, providing over 100 different college degree options for students to pursue their trade or career calling.
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Through our unique partner program, Chula Vista Christian offers virtually hundreds of transfer options, including trade programs, graduate programs, and major fields of undergraduate study like computer science, political science, psychology, business, mechanical engineering, education, post-RN nursing, pre-med, entrepreneurship, cybersecurity, communication, digital media, and criminal justice, along with emphases in arenas like music, environmental science, and homeland security.
We tailor the degree program to the individual gifts and talents of the student.
Discover your design at CVCU!​