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.

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Help plan and facilitate an interactive tour at the Roots of Knowledge display for hundreds of visitors who come to this world-class exhibit at UVU. Students will learn and be part of a process that takes the theoretical knowledge of the classroom and combines it with a real-life service to the community in this engaging and thought-provoking project.

Course Description: Teaches rhetorical knowledge and skills, focusing on critical reading, writing, and thinking. Meets English Composition graduation requirements (CC).

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Course Description: Emphasizes academic inquiry and research. Explores issues from multiple perspectives. Teaches careful reasoning, argumentation, and rhetorical awareness of purpose, audience, and genre. Focuses on critically evaluating, effectively integrating, and properly documenting sources. 

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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. Utilizes cutting edge research on factors and issues related to relationship success and outcome including whom and when to marry and how to build stable and happy relationships over time. Stresses increased understanding of desirable relationship outcomes and how to achieve them.

Project Description: Help local families navigate the stresses related to Cancer by crafting resource materials and activities to address the diverse needs of families fighting cancer. 

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: Help Vineyard residents elevate their well-being with an upcoming Health Fair.  Craft compelling presentations and engaging activities to address the diverse health needs of our families. They will actively reach out to local community resources, inviting experts to share valuable insights during the event. 

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: Help create high impact, feasible solutions focuses on enhancing safety and security for Orem City.

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: Work with the City of Vineyard, particularly to locate storm drains, assess the quality of drainage, and post their locations to Google Earth or Arc GIS.

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 long time residents and create educational materials to preserve the history of the growing city of Vineyard.

Course Description: Studies planet earth: its materials, structure, dynamics, and surface features. Taken alone it is designed for non-science students who want a broad introduction to earth science and a greater appreciation of their physical surroundings. (PP.)

Project Description: Craft an engaging and informative geological outdoor exploration field guide that not only showcases but passionately promotes and shares the awe-inspiring geological wonders nestled within the heart of Utah County.