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Summer 2023 Classes and Projects

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 connections 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 connections activities are different depending on which day your UVU Excelerate class meets. If it meets on Monday/Wednesday, the career connections activities will be on Wednesdays from noon to 1:30 p.m. If it meets on Tuesday/Thursday, the career connections 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 connections activities. We can't wait to see you succeed in college!

ART 2100 Teaching Art for Children

Project Partner: UVU Museum of Art

CRN: 21075

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.

ENGL 1010 Introduction to Academic Writing

Project Partner: Orem Public Library

CRN: 20991

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.

ENGL 1010 Introduction to Academic Writing

Project Partner: UVU Museum of Art

CRN: 20878

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.

ENGL 1010 Introduction to Academic Writing

Project Partner: Orem Public Library

CRN: 20311

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.

ENGL 1010 Introduction to Academic Writing

Project Partner: The Refuge Utah (TRU)

CRN: 20989

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.

ENTR 2500 Creativity and Entrepreneurial Thinking

Project Partner: City of Orem

CRN: 20126

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.

FAMS 1150 Marriage and Relationship Skills

Project Partner: Beacon Health Services

CRN: 21078

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.

HIST 1700 American Civilization

Project Partner: Vineyard City

CRN: 20951

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.

HLTH 1100 Personal Health and Wellness

*Class Full--No Seats Left

Project Partner: Vineyard City

CRN: 21076

Instructor: Tiana Prestwich

Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11

Times: Mon./Wed. 9 AM - 10:50 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.

PSY 1010 General Psychology

*Class Full--No Seats Left

Project Partner: UVU’s Melissa Nellesen Center for Autism

CRN: 20983

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.

PSY 1100 Human Development Life Span

Project Partner: Utah Foster Care

CRN: 20993

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.

SOC 1010 Introduction to Sociology

Project Partner: UVU Roots of Knowledge

CRN: 20981

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 and hold a tour and scavenger hunt for the Roots on Knowledge that focuses on how the technology of communication has impacted societies over time.

TECH 1010 Understanding Technology

*Class Full--No Seats Left

Project Partner: Vineyard City

CRN: 20952

Instructor: Carl Canlas

Dates: Jun. 19 to Aug. 11

Times: Online Only

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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