College Arts Education

No Calculator? No Problem! Mastering Mental Math , award-winning professor of mathematics and celebrated “mathemagician” Arthur T. Benjamin delivers 10 fun-filled lessons on how to do math in your head with confidence, accuracy, and speed - sometimes faster than a calculator. By the end of Professor Benjamin’s lessons, you’ll be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers faster than ever before. And with your newfound skills, you’ll soon find yourself amazing other people and, perhaps more important, yourself.

Ready for college? Take a confident approach to college admissions with this definitive guide – all without stressing yourself out. Getting into college is a magnificent stepping stone that can definitely give you an edge in your professional career and in your life. Unfortunately, the part that comes before all this is not so easy.

Dr. Matt’s Gutsy Guide to Reading in College takes you step by step through how to succeed with your college reading. This all-in-one guide shows you what happens to your brain on books and what’s going on in your professor’s head when they’re picking readings.

Pleasing parents and living your dreams can often be incompatible, if the two do not agree. Yet financing college education without the help of parents can also be tricky business and open a whole new world of challenges. College Counselor Paul F. Davis advises students throughout the world eager to study theater and arts, but being told by parents they must study some other subject or go without receiving their financial help. Paul provides students wise counsel to think through all of their options, structure higher education in a way to appeal to and persuade parents, and possibly go ...

Most high school students never have received any instruction in how to write a personal essay. Yet at a time when getting admitted to their dream college is more competitive than ever, the admissions essay may turn out to be the single most important thing they will ever write. The stakes are high. In Writing Tools for the College Essay, veteran journalist and writing coach Roy Peter Clark shows how any student can showcase their unique achievements, intellect, and attributes to stand out from the crowd.

In Is College Worth It?, William J. Bennett and David Wilezol assess the problems of American higher education at various levels, from runaway costs to inferior academics to poor graduation rates to political indoctrination, and propose serious reforms and alternative methods for improving higher education so that it better serves our students.

The primary goal of this course is to expand the students' vocabulary, improve their understanding of word usage, and develop their ability to decipher complex texts. By the end of the course, students should be able to confidently tackle the verbal sections of various standardized tests and enhance their overall language proficiency.