Check to see if you are eligible for UVU Excelerate! Check Your Eligibility
When you take a FREE UVU Excelerate class, it counts towards your graduation requirements, alleviating the stress and financial burden of one class from your schedule! Choose from the classes provided below, and please keep in mind:
To ensure you make the most of your UVU Excelerate experience, we encourage you to dedicate the second block of summer exclusively to your Excelerate class. Avoid or minimize signing up for additional classes during this time to stay focused and fully engage in your course.
As part of the Excelerate scholarship, you'll have the opportunity to participate in weekly Career Connection events! These events offer insights into campus resources, potential career paths, networking opportunities with professionals in your field, and essential skills for your future career.
The Career Connections events are held each week of the program. Attendance is required to at least 5 of the sessions offered during the program.
Be sure to plan your summer schedule to include both your UVU Excelerate class and the enriching Career Connections events. We can't wait to see you succeed in college!
Instructor: Rob Line
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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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Instructor: Thew Curtis
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Course Description: Teaches rhetorical knowledge and skills, focusing on critical reading, writing, and thinking. Meets English Composition graduation requirements (CC).
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Instructor: Zach Largey
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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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Instructor: Todd Spencer
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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.
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Instructor: Tiana Prestwich
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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).
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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).
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Course Description: Covers the principal technologies that are important and prevalent today and their associated science principles. Meets Physical Science graduation requirements (PP).
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Instructor: Ben Johnson
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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).
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Instructor: Stephen Campbell
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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.)
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Instructor: Chris Weigel
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Course Description: Challenges students to explore and clarify their values; critically read works of philosophy, literature, religion, and history toward understanding the basis of their ethical views; and read, study, research, discuss, and write about difficult ethical issues. Focuses on issues of good vs. evil, justice vs. injustice, equality vs. inequality, and the necessity of defining and examining happiness and values. Engages students in serious reflection on issues of ethics and values as they relate to the students' own lives.
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Course Description: An introductory course in modern scientific psychology. Covers major domains of scientific psychology including biological foundations, sensations, perception, learning, motivation, human development and abnormal psychology. Examines major psychological and professional applications.
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Course Description: Explores genetic and environmental influences on human development and behavior from conception and birth through old age and death. Examines typical physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes at each developmental stage throughout the life span. Explores major theoretical perspectives on human development.
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