An Opportunity To Get College Credit While Getting Treatment
The Partnership
Students studying for their classes
The partnership between Woodbury University and Sober College has changed the way young adult addiction treatment is viewed, placing Sober College on the front end of this movement to combine education and addiction treatment. No other treatment center offers an on-site collegiate experience where residents can earn up to 15 transferable college credits from an accredited university. Sober College is drug rehab and college all under one roof.
Benefits of the Curriculum
Sober College teaches five Woodbury courses on campus: Public Speaking, Creative Writing, Sociology: Drugs and Alcohol in Popular Culture, Emotional Intelligence, and Health and Wellness. These courses give students the opportunity to examine their issues in a classroom setting, while learning study and life skills to continue on a path to higher education.
The course content is both engaging and relevant to our students, and the courses’ unique learning model provides a learning environment catered specifically to our students educational and personal needs:
- Sober College has adjunct professors teaching the courses on site,
- Students have online support from their Woodbury Professors,
- The courses are modular based, thus designed to accommodate rolling admissions, so students are able to start their schooling immediately,
- Smaller class size allow students to receive more personal attention during and after class It also assures that students will not have to drop a class due to clinical issues that arise in early sobriety.
The Woodbury courses offered at Sober College are tailored to help our students become reinvigorated with the motivation for success, and become familiar with what a true college experience is like.
The Certificate of General Studies: A Unique Learning Model
Upon completion of the five courses, Sober College students can earn a Certificate in General Studies from Woodbury University. The Certificate of General Studies provides students with a semester’s worth of college credits from Woodbury University to take with them when applying to colleges and universities. With in class instruction, online assignment submission, outlined course syllabi with due dates, and quiz and test dates, students are able to experience and/or prepare for a collegiate setting outside of Sober College.
