SCU, Accelerated Science CoursesReviews of scuhs.edu

My experience was life changing! I took a total of 3 AS courses in a span of 17 weeks and it allowed me to make the deadline for my PharmD. Courses are challenging, they require dedication, and time. All the tools are available to succeed, and staff are more than willing to work with you. The asynchronous courses allowed me to work on my own pace and gave me the freedom to enroll in the courses I needed to meet my prerequisites in a short period of time, something I couldn’t do in a traditional semester long institution. I strongly believe in SCUHS Accelerated courses system!

There was hardly any teaching. The actual professor did not teach a thing and the lectures were pre-recorded by students whom we had never met and who were all over the place commonly going rogue away from the lecture slides.

The fast pace of the courses are convenient, however some of the instructors seem a bit confused with the core focus … I’ve done well in past courses but this summer was a terrible experience for me… lab instructor was great and to the point but idk what happened with the lecture instructor. Needless to say it was a complete waste of my money…

I like the ease of the online course and the professor was fine, what I didn’t like was the book used: It used a bad bias version of the Hippocratic Oath which I found very offensive. And it also used prefixes and suffixes that are in line with the real word. I found the book outdated. Also we were not told ahead of time we needed a web camera which I had to buy and then I had to buy a converter (which I want aware it needed until it arrived) which caused me to do the video late and I lost points. Had I known the course needed a Camera before hand I would have bought it and not had to wait to send in the video. I explained the situation to the professor but still had points taken off

The short courses creates flexibility for students but still include all necessary information. Also, the professors are very good and offer many opportunities for additional help if the students are having trouble

It was easy to navigate especially with a full time job I was able to do the assignments on my own time.

Professor was easily accessible for any issues. Class assignments were very interactive and engaged my learning. I would definitely recommend any student who needs to retake a course with SCU. It’s also fairly affordable!

I felt that this course was designed too much like one which would be taken at a normal pace with the homework formatting. Ultimately the readings and homework assignments were not overly beneficial to my studying and took a good chunk of time away from my studying because of how much material there was to complete. At least it was completion based. Personally, I also had problems with the instructor's scheduling for this course as well. There were supposed to be 3 review sessions (one for each exam), however if the meeting was not rescheduled to an earlier or later time at the last minute, it was just flat canceled. This made it difficult to attend the review sessions to get help and get the extra credit boost from attending. I understand that this is an accelerated course and so it is bound to feel rushed, however, I feel that there has been so much busy work in this course that it started to hinder my studying because there was not enough time in the week to get it all done.