Purdue Global study guides, course by course
Purdue Global runs on 10-week terms with weekly units: most courses pair a discussion board, an assignment, and a live seminar (or an Option 2 alternative write-up) every single week, with hard deadlines on Tuesday nights. Students are usually working adults juggling two courses at a time, so the challenge is less raw difficulty and more keeping pace when every unit stacks deliverables on a fixed clock.
Purdue Global courses use a two-letter department prefix glued to a three-digit number with no space — IT190, CM107, MM150. The first digit signals level (1xx/2xx lower division, 3xx/4xx upper division), and credits are quarter credit hours, typically 5 per course.
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IT190 — Information Technology Concepts
IT190 is the entry point for Purdue Global's IT degrees, surveying hardware, software, operating systems, networking, databases, and security at an introductory level. It runs over the standard 10-week term with a unit of work due every week, and it sets the vocabulary every later IT course assumes.
IT273 — Networking Concepts
IT273 is Purdue Global's core networking course, covering the OSI and TCP/IP models, IP addressing and subnetting, network hardware, and basic network troubleshooting. It sits early in the IT and cybersecurity tracks and roughly tracks CompTIA Network+ territory.
IT331 — Technology Infrastructure
IT331 is an upper-division course on designing and evaluating technology infrastructure — networks, servers, cloud services, and the planning that ties them to business requirements. It typically culminates in a multi-part infrastructure design project that builds across the term.
IT332 — Principles of Information Systems Architecture
IT332 is an upper-division course on how the pieces of an information system fit together — hardware, operating systems, networks, and applications viewed as one architecture rather than separate topics. It leans on diagramming and design assignments that ask you to specify a complete system for a scenario organization.
IT391 — Advanced Software Development
IT391 covers advanced design and programming concepts — applied across web and mobile contexts — with latitude in which language you implement assignments in. It sits late in the software development track and assumes you can already write working programs without hand-holding.
IT460 — Systems Analysis and Design
IT460 is a senior-level course covering the systems development life cycle — requirements gathering, analysis, modeling, design, and implementation planning — typically built around a term-long project for a scenario organization. It pulls together the whole IT degree into one documented system proposal.
Professional Studies
Mathematics
MM150 — Survey of Mathematics
MM150 is Purdue Global's general-education math course for non-STEM majors, surveying practical topics like set theory, algebra basics, consumer math, probability, and statistics. For many students it's the only math course in their degree, often taken after years away from a classroom.
MM207 — Statistics
MM207 is Purdue Global's introductory statistics course, required across many programs including health science, business, and psychology tracks. It covers descriptive statistics, probability, distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing over the 10-week term.
MM212 — College Algebra
MM212 is Purdue Global's college algebra course, covering systems of equations, polynomials, rational and radical expressions, and exponential and logarithmic equations, with applied problems throughout. It's required ahead of math-dependent courses in several tech and business tracks.
MM250 — Discrete Mathematics
MM250 introduces the math underneath computing — set theory, logic, matrices, sequences and series, graph theory, and algorithm analysis — for Purdue Global's IT and computer science students. It's less about calculation and more about precise, structured reasoning.
Composition
CM107 — College Composition I
CM107 is the first required writing course at Purdue Global, covering the writing process, paragraph and essay structure, audience awareness, and APA basics. Nearly every student takes it in their first terms, and it builds toward a final essay through staged drafts.
CM220 — College Composition II
CM220 is the second required composition course, centered on research-based persuasive writing. The term builds toward a documented persuasive essay on a 'big idea' the student develops across units, with research, source evaluation, and APA citation woven throughout.
Psychology
Health Care Administration
Humanities
Science
SC121 — Human Anatomy and Physiology I
SC121 is the first half of Purdue Global's anatomy and physiology sequence, covering cells, tissues, homeostasis, and the early body systems — integumentary, skeletal, muscular, and nervous — with a lab component. It's a cornerstone requirement for health science and nursing-track students.
SC131 — Human Anatomy and Physiology II
SC131 completes the anatomy and physiology sequence, covering the cardiovascular, respiratory, immune, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems with a lab component. It assumes SC121's foundation and moves at the same compressed 10-week pace.
SC235 — General Biology I: Human Perspectives
SC235 is Purdue Global's general-education biology course, introducing life science through a human lens — cells, molecules, genetics, and organ systems, with everyday applications stressed throughout. For many non-science majors it's the lone lab science in their degree.
Business
MT140 — Introduction to Management
MT140 is the gateway course for Purdue Global's business programs, covering the four management functions — planning, organizing, leading, and controlling — plus organizational basics, motivation, and decision making. It establishes the frameworks every later business course references.
MT203 — Human Resource Management
MT203 examines human resources from a managerial perspective — job analysis, staffing, performance appraisal, training and development, compensation, labor relations, and legal compliance. It's a core requirement in Purdue Global's business administration track.
BU204 — Macroeconomics
BU204 covers the economy as a whole — national income, GDP, economic growth, aggregate demand and supply, unemployment, and inflation. It's a common requirement in Purdue Global's business and finance programs and the course where economic graphs become a weekly companion.
Accounting
AC114 — Accounting I
AC114 is Purdue Global's first financial accounting course, covering the accounting cycle — transactions, debits and credits, journal entries, adjusting entries, and the basic financial statements. It's the foundation course for the accounting program and a requirement across several business tracks.
AC116 — Accounting II
AC116 continues from AC114 into the meatier balance-sheet topics — receivables, inventory, plant assets, liabilities, and equity — along with the statement of cash flows. It completes the financial accounting foundation the rest of the accounting program builds on.
Criminal Justice
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