UoPX study guides, course by course
UoPX students take one course at a time in compressed blocks — five weeks for most undergraduate courses, six for graduate — so each class is a sprint with weekly objectives, required discussion participation on multiple days, and assignments stacking from day one. The format suits working adults, but a single bad week costs 20% of the course, which is why pacing matters more here than at almost any other school.
University of Phoenix course codes pair a department prefix with a slash and number — MTH/215, HUM/115, FIN/571. The number's first digit signals level: 1xx-2xx undergraduate gen-ed, 5xx master's, 7xx doctoral. Students write them with the slash; URLs and transcripts often drop it.
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Humanities
HUM/115 — Critical Thinking in Everyday Life
HUM/115 teaches a practical critical-thinking process — identifying arguments, evaluating evidence, spotting fallacies and biases, and applying structured reasoning to everyday decisions. It's a common early gen-ed requirement across UoPX undergraduate programs.
PHL/320 — Critical Thinking and Decision Making in Business
PHL/320 applies critical thinking to business contexts — argument analysis, logical fallacies, creative problem solving, and structured decision-making processes — and is a common requirement in UoPX undergraduate business programs. Weekly written work applies the frameworks to workplace scenarios.
Mathematics
MTH/215 — Quantitative Reasoning I
MTH/215 is the first of UoPX's two-course math sequence for most undergraduate programs, covering real-number arithmetic, basic algebra, graphing, and unit-based reasoning applied to real-world contexts. For many students it's their first math course in years, compressed into five weeks.
MTH/216 — Quantitative Reasoning II
MTH/216 follows MTH/215 and shifts from algebra basics to applied modeling, probability, and statistics — using quantitative tools to analyze real-world scenarios and data. It completes the math requirement for most UoPX undergraduate programs.
MTH/220 — College Algebra
MTH/220 is UoPX's college algebra course, covering linear and quadratic equations, polynomials, rational and radical expressions, functions, and exponentials and logarithms — required where degree programs need real algebra rather than the quantitative reasoning sequence. It runs in the standard compressed 5-week block.
Psychology
Social Science
SOC/110 — Teamwork, Collaboration, and Conflict Resolution
SOC/110 covers group dynamics, communication styles, collaboration strategies, and conflict-resolution techniques, and is known across UoPX as the course with the team project. Group deliverables built with classmates are central to the grade.
SOC/100 — Introduction to Sociology
SOC/100 surveys sociology's core territory — culture, socialization, social structure, groups, inequality, race and gender, and social institutions — through the discipline's major theoretical perspectives. It's a common social science gen-ed across UoPX undergraduate programs.
Business (Graduate)
FIN/571 — Corporate Finance
FIN/571 is the MBA corporate finance course, covering financial statement analysis, time value of money, valuation, capital budgeting, and capital structure in six weeks. It has a long-standing reputation as the quantitative gatekeeper of the UoPX MBA.
MGT/521 — Management
MGT/521 is a core MBA course covering management theory and practice — planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, plus organizational culture, strategy basics, and change management. It's often one of the first courses in the MBA sequence.
ACC/561 — Accounting
ACC/561 is the MBA accounting course, spanning financial statements, ratio analysis, and managerial accounting topics like budgeting and cost behavior in six weeks. Alongside FIN/571, it forms the quantitative core of the UoPX MBA.
Doctoral Studies
Business
QNT/275 — Statistics for Decision Making
QNT/275 is the business statistics course in UoPX undergraduate business programs, covering descriptive statistics, probability, and inferential basics with a focus on statistical literacy for business decisions. Expect data work in Excel and weekly assignments that ask what the numbers mean for a business question.
LDR/300 — Innovative Leadership
LDR/300 covers leadership theory and practice with an innovation lens — leadership versus management, trait and behavioral theories, contemporary models, and leading change and creativity in organizations. It's a staple in UoPX undergraduate business and management programs.
Accounting
ACC/290 — Principles of Accounting I
ACC/290 introduces financial accounting — the accounting cycle, debits and credits, journal and adjusting entries, and the basic financial statements — with an emphasis on using financial data for decisions. It's the first accounting course in UoPX business and accounting programs.
ACC/291 — Principles of Accounting II
ACC/291 continues from ACC/290 into the key balance sheet areas managers review for decisions — receivables, plant assets, liabilities, bonds, stocks and dividends — and finishes with the statement of cash flows and financial statement analysis. It completes the principles sequence in UoPX business programs.
Information Technology
CYB/110 — Foundations of Security
CYB/110 is the entry course in UoPX's cybersecurity track, building security awareness and covering the threat landscape — identity theft, fraud, scams, malware and backdoors, hacking, and social engineering — along with the defensive fundamentals against each. It assumes no security background.
BIS/221 — Introduction to Computer Applications and Systems
BIS/221 is UoPX's business technology literacy course, covering computing fundamentals, productivity applications — word processing, spreadsheets, presentations — and how information systems support business, with digital security and collaboration woven in. It's a common early requirement in business programs.
Science
Health Care
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