Here's a sampling of courses available online

By Carol Hegarty
FOR COPLEY NEWSPAPERS

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, offers business, liberal arts and sciences, law courses at its online Web site http:www.niuonline.niu.edu.

Courses also include professional education, specialization in nursing, and midwifery. Students may earn a master's degree in education completely online.

University of St. Francis, Joliet, offers its entire MBA program online. A bachelor of science degree in health arts is online through the university's locations in 18 states. Graduate courses in management, continuing education management, and health services administration are also available online.

Judson (College) Online, Elgin, will offer summer courses online: Ecology and Environmental Problems with Lab; New Testament; Skill Development and Prior Learning, Assessment, Expository Writing; Critical Thinking and Writing; Multicultural Perspectives in American Women Writers; The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Circle; Mathematical Investigation I; PreCalculus I/College Algebra; Business Systems Analysis and Design; Astronomy with optional lab. Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, will hold these summer courses online: Orientation to Deafness, Criminal Justice AIDS Awareness, English 102.

About 10 new online courses for a total of 19 classes are under development for fall.

University of Wisconsin-Parkside plans to offer online courses in the fall. Classes will be video taped and seen on the Internet through streaming video.

This fall, Robert Morris College, Naperville, Chicago and Orland Park, will begin offering current students some online courses in varied academic disciplines and career-related topics.