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IMPORTANT:

IMPORTANT:

If you have not already applied to the Extended Studies Program and activated your myUCCS student portal account, then download the application/registration instructional packet below. Follow all steps closely. You must complete twelve (12) total credit hours to earn this certificate. Choose any combination of offerings.

Students may begin these courses at any time and progress at their own pace. Registration is always available (except for short periods between UCCS semesters). Completion of each individual course required within ONE YEAR, starting from the end of the UCCS semester in which you are registered.

Application/Registration Instruction Packet

Power and Privilege

3 credit hours, $510 tuition + $100 Canvas online fee

Academic credit: SOC 5640-780, Class# 18001

Spring 2025 deadline to register: March 20, 2025

Please contact Prof. Abby Ferber to request access to the course web site on UCCS Canvas.

Click here to view course syllabus

Gender and Sexuality

3 credit hours, $510 tuition + $100 Canvas online fee

Academic credit: SOC 5040-780, Class# 18000

Spring 2025 deadline to register: March 20, 2025

Please contact Prof. Abby Ferber to request access to the course web site on UCCS Canvas.

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Religion and Social Justice

3 credit hours, $510 tuition + $100 Canvas online fee

Academic credit: SOC 5010-780, Class# 17999

Spring 2025 deadline to register: March 20, 2025

Please contact Prof. Deborah Saxon to request access to the course web site on UCCS Canvas.

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Foundations of Disability Studies

3 credit hours, $510 tuition + $100 Canvas online fee

Academic credit: SOC 5230-780, Class# 18032

Spring 2025 deadline to register: March 20, 2025

Please contact Prof. Lori Dowds to request access to the course web site on UCCS Canvas.

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Race Literacy and Transformative Media

3 credit hours, $510 tuition + $100 Canvas online fee

Academic credit: SOC 5010-781, Class# 18003

Spring 2025 deadline to register: March 20, 2025

Please contact Prof. Kedric Bacy to request access to the course web site on UCCS Canvas.

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Inclusive Teaching/Knapsack Institute

Splash Knapsack

3 credit hours, $510 tuition + additional program fees

  • Academic credit: SOC 5580
  • Next offering: Summer 2025
  • Credit registration requires that you first apply and register for the Knapsack Institute (see link below)

Once you are registered, access course information on Canvas; use your myUCCS portal username and password to login to Canvas.

Knapsack Institute Home Page

Mindful Social Justice: Begin Within

Based on the idea that small personal changes can have a huge impact on the world, this course provides strategies for increasing cultural inclusion and challenging systems of social inequity beginning within. Research shows that the ancient practice of mindfulness can serve as a tool not only for increasing health/wellness and decreasing stress, but also to challenge our implicit biases. Taught by Dena Samuels, Ph.D.

3 credit hours, $510 tuition + additional program fees

Academic credit: SOC 5010-771, Class# 18004

Spring 2025 deadline to register: March 20, 2025

IMPORTANT: you must also register with Dena Samuels Consulting (additional fees apply). Contact Prof. Dena Samuels at dena@denasamuels.com with questions.

Dena Samuels Consulting Web Site

A New Approach to Teaching "To Kill A Mockingbird" (Offered by Facing History and Ourselves)

3 credit hours, $510 tuition + additional program fees

  • Next Offering: TBD
  • This course is offered by partner organization Facing History and Ourselves, which has its own processes and regulations for accepting participants, and charges its own fees for participation in their programs
  • Credit registration requires acceptance to participate in the program by Facing History and payment of applicable fees to Facing History
FHO Home Page

A New Approach to Teaching The Reconstruction Era (Offered by Facing History and Ourselves)

3 credit hours, $510 tuition + additional program fees

  • Next Offering: TBD
  • This course is offered by partner organization Facing History and Ourselves, which has its own processes and regulations for accepting participants, and charges its own fees for participation in their programs
  • Credit registration requires acceptance to participate in the program by Facing History and payment of applicable fees to Facing History
FHO's "Teaching the Reconstruction Era" Info Page

Holocaust and Human Behavior (Offered by Facing History and Ourselves)

3 credit hours, $510 tuition + additional program fees

  • Spring 2025 Offering: February 13-March 27, 2025
  • Course information: SOC 5010-772
  • 5-Digit Class #: 18005
  • Deadline to register for academic credit: February 26, 2025
  • This course is offered by partner organization Facing History and Ourselves, which has its own processes and regulations for accepting participants, and charges its own fees for participation in their programs
  • Credit registration requires acceptance to participate in the program by Facing History and payment of applicable fees to Facing History
FHO's "Holocaust & Human Behavior" Info Page

Witnessing Whiteness Facilitation Practicum

3 credit hours, $510 tuition + additional program fees

Academic credit: SOC 5010-770, Class# 18002

Spring 2025 deadline to register: March 20, 2025

Once you are registered, access the coursework at Shelly Tochluk's web site. Also, please contact Prof. Abby Ferber to let her know you are beginning the coursework.

Shelly Tochluk's Witnessing Whiteness Facilitation Practicum Web Site

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