About E-Tutorials

E-Tutorials use email as the sole mechanism for communication between the student and the Foundation faculty. Each course is taught as a one-on-one tutorial between the student and the faculty person offering the course. This curriculum is offered exclusively by our own faculty. The faculty evaluation of student performance will be linked to the degree level of the student. A complete roster of E-Tutorial courses are available on the Foundation’s website here. New courses are regularly added to this roster.

E-Tutorial Process

The student reads the assigned textual materials and emails a 500-1000 word response to the Foundation for each of six sessions. The faculty person sends a personal critique and comment on each of the student’s response papers, and, at the end of the six sessions, the student submits a final paper which is essentially the six combined 500-1000 word papers which the student has edited in light of the faculty person’s critical comments during the course.
 
The 500-1000 word response papers required for each E-Tutorial are expected to be academic and scholarly in nature and, where appropriate, formalize the bibliographic references included in each paper.  By virtue of including bibliographic citations in each of the response papers, the student facilitates the compilation of all six 500-1000 word response papers in the writing of the final paper for the course.A bibliography is, of course, always required for the final paper.  Though impressionistic responses are welcomed in the response papers, each response paper and the resulting final paper should demonstrate acquaintance with the required readings by use of footnotes and bibliographical citations.
 
 

Academic Coursework Completion Policy
All papers written for an E-Tutorial must be submitted within 30 days of completing the E-Tutorial or no course credit will be awarded. The entire E-Tutorial timeframe is ten weeks (six weeks for each of the six individual response papers and four weeks for the completion of the final paper). Up to three courses may be taken simultaneously. The expected time requirements for the readings and essay writings for each course is 40 clock hours.

 
 
E-Tutorial Fees
  • Undergraduate Activated Students Fee: $300
  • Undergraduate non-Activated Students Fee: $600
  • Graduate Students Fee: $600
  • non-students fee: $600
  • required course: $0
  • Fees for courses taken through the Foundation are included in the total program cost of students accepted after January 1, 2012.
Withdrawal/refund Policy 

Any student may choose to withdraw from an E-Tutorial course without penalty provided the withdrawal request is received before the first required course paper is submitted for faculty review. A student who chooses to withdraw after submitting the first course paper will receive an “incomplete” for the course (reflected on transcript). Any student who withdraws from an E-Tutorial course and later wishes to retake the same course will be required to pay a $600 E-Tutorial registration fee. Any student who withdraws from an E-Tutorial and wishes to register for a different E-Tutorial course in its place will be required to pay a $600 E-Tutorial registration fee.