Check to see if you are eligible for UVU Excelerate! Check Your Eligibility
When you take your FREE UVU Excelerate class, it counts towards your graduation requirements, so that's one less class you need to worry about! Please choose from the classes listed below. Also, please remember:
We want you to focus on your UVU Excelerate class during the second block of summer, so please don't sign up for any other classes at that time. It's important to stay on track and get the most out of your class.
Now, here's the best part: as part of the scholarship: You get to attend weekly career development activities! That means you'll learn about campus resources, career options, get to meet people in your career field, and gain important skills that will help you in your future career.
The career development activities are different depending on which day your UVU Excelerate class meets. If it meets on Monday/Wednesday, the career development activities will be on Wednesdays from noon to 1:30 p.m. If it meets on Tuesday/Thursday, the career development activities will be on Tuesdays from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Make sure you plan your summer schedule to include both your UVU Excelerate class and career development activities. We can't wait to see you succeed in college!
Instructor: Izzy Healey
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Tues./Thurs. 9 AM - 11:25 AM
Course Description: Introduces concepts and techniques to teach children ages 5-12 art in the home, community, or schools. Meets Fine Arts graduation requirements (FF).
Project Description: Create educational materials for young visitors centered around the theme the “Art of Belonging” while learning from artists from the Artes de Mexico en Utah collective.
Instructor: Ashley Egan
Dates: May 5 9-12:50 PM, May 7-13 8 am to 5 pm, May 15 9-12:50
Course Description: Covers the classification, identification, and ecology of woody plants with an emphasis on native trees and shrubs. Designed for both biology majors and non-majors. Meets Biology graduation requirements (BB).
Project Description: Identify plants along a public corridor and creation of public educational signage of native plants and ecosystems.
Instructor: Robert Jackson
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Mon./Wed. 2 PM - 4:25 PM
Course Description: An introductory course which studies the operation of a mixed market system, including production, domestic and global trade, and labor-management economics. Meets Social Science graduation requirements (SS).
Project Description: Create and conduct a food drive while experiencing the local economy at a very grassroots level.
Instructor: Kristen Vasquez
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Tues./Thurs. 2 PM - 4:25 PM
Course Description: Teaches rhetorical knowledge and skills, focusing on critical reading, writing, and thinking. Meets English Composition graduation requirements (CC).
Project Description: Choose nonfiction books to review for the library’s blog that you choose to encourage community members to find new books to enjoy.
Instructor: Kaleigh Spooner
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Tues./Thurs. 9 AM - 11:25 AM
Course Description: Teaches rhetorical knowledge and skills, focusing on critical reading, writing, and thinking. Meets English Composition graduation requirements (CC).
Project Description: Develop digital tools (e.g., virtual tours) to be used by the museum for its patrons related to Latin American culture and food.
Instructor: Thew Curtis
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Mon./Wed. 9 AM - 11:25 AM
Course Description: Teaches rhetorical knowledge and skills, focusing on critical reading, writing, and thinking. Meets English Composition graduation requirements (CC).
Project Description: Produce educational materials related to poetry for elementary school children and teens.
Instructor: Zach Largey
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Mon./Wed. 2 PM - 4:25 PM
Course Description: Teaches rhetorical knowledge and skills, focusing on critical reading, writing, and thinking. Meets English Composition graduation requirements (CC).
Project Description: Revise and improve TRU’s “graduation packet” that supports survivors of domestic violence, abuse, and sexual harassment as they safely and carefully return back to “normal” life.
Instructor: Vance Gough
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Tues./Thurs. 2 PM - 4:25 PM
Course Description: Includes topics such as the customer/problem/solution framework, design thinking, prototyping, intellectual property, creative idea development, lead user research methodology, peer feedback, new venture financing, and the lean start-up. Meets Social Science graduation requirements (SS).
Project Description: Create high impact, feasible solutions to solve problems within the City of Orem.
Instructor: Todd Spencer
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Tues./Thurs. 9 AM - 11:25 AM
Course Description: Guides students in building a lasting intimate relationship of their own and in understanding and teaching relationship maintenance and improvement strategies based on large-scale scientifically derived marriage and relationship principles. Meets Social Science graduation requirements (SS).
Project Description: Develop and deliver workshops on marriage and relationship skills for community members from marginalized backgrounds.
Instructor: Ben Johnson
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Tues./Thurs. 2 PM - 4:25 PM
Course Description: Analyze developing political, economic, and social institutions and their interrelationships with, and impact upon, the geographical features of the land. Meets American Institutions graduation requirements (AS).
Project Description: Interview residents and create educational materials to preserve the history of this young and growing city.
Instructor: Tiana Prestwich
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Mon./Wed. 9 AM - 11:25 AM
Course Description: Examines the challenges to individual and community health, and encourages students to become actively engaged in preserving, protecting, and promoting health at all levels. Meets core graduation requirements (TE).
Project Description: Create educational presentations to help residents learn about stress-management strategies, characteristics of successful relationships, components of psychological health, steps to enhance psychological well-being, and about treatment and recovery from addiction.
Instructor: Anne Brown
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Mon./Wed. 9 AM - 11:25 AM
Course Description: Teaches how to communicate, interpret, and analyze quantitative information found in the media and in everyday life to make sound personal, professional, and civic decisions. Meets Quantitative Literacy graduation requirements (QL).
Project Description: Collect and analyze data for Gabb Wireless to meet their needs, including looking for outliers, logical fallacies, and consistencies.
Instructor: Shauna Hiatt
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Tues./Thurs. 2 PM - 4:25 PM
Course Description: An introduction to psychology including biological foundations, sensations, perception, learning, motivation, human development and abnormal psychology. Meets Social Science graduation requirements (SS).
Project Description: Create resources for first responders to help them interact with individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
Instructor: John Ortiz
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Mon./Wed. 2 PM - 4:25 PM
Course Description: Explore genetic and environmental influences on human development and behavior from conception and birth through old age and death. Meets Social Science graduation requirements (SS).
Project Description: Educate community members on what foster care is and how to foster children in need.
Instructor: Rob Line
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Mon./Wed. 2 PM - 4:25 PM
Course Description: Studies and compares social groups and institutions and their inter-relationships. Includes culture, socialization, deviance, stratification, race, ethnicity, social change, and collective behavior. Meets Social Science graduation requirements (SS).
Project Description: Create educational materials to help Latinoa/o/x parents better advocate for their children in schools.
Instructor: John Kidd
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Tues./Thurs. 9 AM - 11:25 AM
Course Description: A quantitative literacy course with a statistical theme. Includes descriptive statistics, sampling, and inferential methods. Emphasizes problem solving and critical thinking. Meets Quantitative Literacy graduation requirements (QL).
Project Description: Analyze real-world data sets for the Clinical Research Department.
Instructor: Carl Canlas
Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11
Times: Mon. 9 AM - 11:25 AM + Online
Course Description: Covers the principal technologies that are important and prevalent today and their associated science principles. Meets Physical Science graduation requirements (PP).
Project Description: Locate all storm drains, assess the quality of drainage, and post their locations to Google Earth or Arc GIS.
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