UoPX study guides, course by course
UoPX students take one course at a time in compressed blocks, five weeks for most undergraduate courses and 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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General Studies
English
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, and is 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 major threat types: 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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