Liberty study guides, course by course
Liberty University Online runs courses in accelerated 8-week sub-terms with a fixed Canvas rhythm: weekly readings, a discussion thread plus replies to classmates, and open-book quizzes or papers. Every degree includes a Christian worldview core (BIBL, THEO, RLGN), so even business and IT majors take religion courses, and the discussion-board cadence is the same across all of them.
Liberty courses use a four-letter subject prefix and a three-digit number: BIBL 104, ENGL 101, CSIS 110. The 100-level courses anchor the general-education core, which includes required religion courses for every degree.
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Biblical Studies
BIBL 104: Survey of Old and New Testament
BIBL 104 is Liberty's whole-Bible survey, required in nearly every degree's religion core. It moves through the Old and New Testaments book by book in 8 weeks, with weekly quizzes, discussion posts, and short written assignments tying biblical content to its historical context.
BIBL 110: New Testament Survey
BIBL 110 surveys the authorship and contents of the New Testament books, with attention to key persons, places, events, and chapters. Alongside the reading, the course builds basic academic research skills through Bible study assignments with scholarly sources and structured reflective-reading templates.
Theology
THEO 104: Introduction to Theology Survey
THEO 104 surveys the basic doctrines of Christianity (God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, Scripture, salvation, and the church) as part of Liberty's required religion core. The weekly pattern is readings, an open-book quiz of multiple-choice and true/false questions, discussions, and short essays applying doctrine to life and culture.
THEO 201: Theology Survey I
THEO 201 is the first half of Liberty's upper-level theology survey, treating the doctrines of Scripture, God, and Christ in more depth than THEO 104. It's a staple in degree plans requiring 200-level theology, run on the standard 8-week rhythm of readings, quizzes, discussions, and short doctrinal papers.
THEO 202: Theology Survey II
THEO 202 completes Liberty's theology survey, covering humanity and sin, salvation, the Holy Spirit, the church, and last things. It runs the same 8-week pattern as THEO 201 (dense readings, timed open-book quizzes, discussions, and doctrinal papers) and assumes that course's foundations.
Religion
University Core
English
ENGL 101: Composition and Rhetoric
ENGL 101 is Liberty's first-year composition course, building essay-writing skills through a sequence of papers in different rhetorical modes with required drafts and revisions. It's a general-education staple taken early in every degree, online and residential.
ENGL 102: Composition and Literature
ENGL 102 follows ENGL 101 in Liberty's composition sequence, applying essay-writing skills to literature: short fiction, poetry, and drama. The major work is a series of literary-analysis essays with required drafting stages, built around close reading of assigned texts in the 8-week format.
Mathematics
MATH 114: Quantitative Reasoning
MATH 114 is Liberty's general-education math course for non-STEM majors, covering practical quantitative skills: proportions, percentages, financial math, basic statistics, and measurement. It's the math requirement most online students take, assessed through weekly homework sets, quizzes, and applied projects.
MATH 201: Introduction to Probability and Statistics
MATH 201 covers descriptive statistics, probability, distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and regression, with applications in business and science. Homework runs through ALEKS, and the course is anchored by a multi-part real-world project where you collect and analyze actual data across the sub-term.
Business
BUSI 201: Intermediate Business Computer Applications
BUSI 201 builds practical Microsoft Office skills for Liberty's business programs: Excel above all, plus Word and PowerPoint. The grade comes from hands-on graded exercises and projects completed in the actual applications, not from quizzes about them.
BUSI 223: Personal Finance
BUSI 223 covers personal financial management (budgeting, saving, credit, insurance, taxes, and retirement) with assignments that have you apply the concepts to realistic financial situations. It's a popular elective well beyond the business school because the content is immediately usable.
BUSI 240: Organizational Behavior & Management
BUSI 240 covers human behavior in organizations (motivation, individual differences, decision making, conflict, leadership, and organizational change) as a core course in Liberty's business programs. Assessment combines timed open-book quizzes with applied work, including a leadership-interview paper integrating a scholarly article and biblical principles.
BUSI 300: Business Communications
BUSI 300 teaches professional business communication (emails, memos, reports, persuasive messages, and presentations) with attention to audience, tone, and format. It's a core requirement across Liberty's business programs, graded primarily through written deliverables produced to specific formatting standards.
BUSI 301: Business Law
BUSI 301 introduces the legal environment of business: the court system, torts, contracts, agency, business organizations, and commercial law topics. It's a core course in Liberty's business programs, assessed through readings, discussions, and quizzes heavy on legal terminology and scenario application.
Psychology
PSYC 101: General Psychology
PSYC 101 surveys the major areas of psychology (research methods, the brain, development, learning, personality, and disorders) and satisfies a social science requirement in many Liberty degrees. Liberty's version also engages how psychological science relates to a Christian worldview.
PSYC 210: Developmental Psychology
PSYC 210 surveys human development across the lifespan (physical, cognitive, and socioemotional) from infancy through late adulthood, engaging the material from a biblical perspective. Assessment runs on timed multiple-choice quizzes, discussions, and a signature Life Review Interview paper based on interviewing someone over 50.
Government
Computer Science & Information Systems
CSIS 110: Introduction to Computing Sciences
CSIS 110 is Liberty's survey of the computing field (hardware, software, networks, data, programming concepts, and computing careers) and the entry course for the computer science and information systems programs. It gives breadth before the dedicated programming courses go deep.
CSIS 111: Introduction to Programming
CSIS 111 is Liberty's first real programming course, teaching structured and object-oriented programming in C++: input/output, control flow, functions, and arrays. The grade is built on a sequence of programming assignments completed in Visual Studio that get progressively more challenging, plus open-book quizzes.
Philosophy
History
HIUS 221: Survey of American History I
HIUS 221 surveys American history from the colonial era through Reconstruction, satisfying a history requirement in many Liberty degree plans. The 8-week format runs on weekly readings, timed open-book quizzes, discussions, and primary-source work alongside the textbook.
HIUS 222: Survey of American History II
HIUS 222 continues the American history survey from 1877 to the present: industrialization, the world wars, the Depression, the Cold War, civil rights, and the modern era. The format mirrors HIUS 221 with weekly readings, timed open-book quizzes, discussions, and primary sources in an 8-week sub-term.
Accounting
Economics
Biology
Creation Studies
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