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Delivery & Formats

 COURSE FORMATS

In general, Holos University Graduate Seminary functions as a 'university without walls'.  For the most part, course delivery is accomplished as distance-learning through the use of the the Internet.  However, some courses are offered that contain residential components in addition to the distance-learning assignments.

There are basically two course formats that have emerged from this blended model:

I. Distance Learning (D): Many of the HU courses are offered as purely distance courses.  Faculty members are continuing to find effective ways to use internet capabilities and conference calls to extend the number of courses that can be completed without attending a required residency.  HU uses guidelines that recommend 180 hours of distance work be completed for each three hours of credit.

II. Distance Learning plus required Residential Component (R): It may be difficult, if not impossible, to understand and integrate certain healing concepts and processes without having supervised experienced the phenomena involved. Therefore, HU offers a number of courses with required introductory residential components, usually conducted in the first two months of the semester, while distance work makes up the balance of these courses.  For these residential components, each hour of a residency or on-line real-time conference session counts for two hours of work in terms of the recommended 180 hours of distance work to be completed for each three hours of credit.  The balance of the work is done through distance-learning.  No academic course credits are awarded either solely or primarily for simply attending residential components or on-line sessions.  Course credits are awarded for real-time participation and for completing the follow-up distance work.  Residencies are offered in the Fall semester during Campus Week.