Core Courses (CC)

LeadershipPrepare Yourself for Leadership

Our program is built upon a robust educational foundation, specifically leveraging Competency-Based Learning to ensure you acquire demonstrable leadership skills and Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle to provide practical, hands-on development. Rooted in these principles and uniquely informed by Unity perspectives, this program offers a dynamic and effective pathway to leadership readiness.

The educational foundations our program is based upon include: (Click links for more information.) Competency Based Learning and Kolb's Experiential Learning CycleInformation on these foundations specific to Unity can be found here.


 

Steps to Registering for Core Courses

Enroll in UWSI. 

Receive UWSI Log-In Credentials

  • Once enrolled, you will receive your Canvas log-in credentials (UWSI email address & password) from Lori Erwin-Johnson.  
    • Canvas login Credentials are only given to students taking online courses through this registration process for UWSI. 

Log-In

  • Follow the instructions you will be sent to log into both Canvas and Microsoft Office to set up your accounts

Auto Enrollment

  • You will be auto-enrolled in the course: "OR-ASY 180 Spiritual Learning in a Digital World." (Description can be found below.)
    • You must successfully complete this asynchronous course in order to register for the Required Core Courses.

Register for Core Courses

  • Once you have completed the above course, click here to register, and select the desired courses. 
    • Registration opens June 2, 2025, no courses will be displayed until then. 
    • YOU MUST USE YOUR UWSI EMAIL TO REGISTER.  IF YOU REGISTER USING YOUR PERSONAL EMAIL, YOU WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE COURSE

Accessing Your Courses

  • After registering:
    • Go to CANVAS 
    • Log in using your Canvas login (email & password).
    • Your course will be listed on your Dashboard.

Cost per Course

  • S150.00

Dropping Courses 

  • To drop a course/s, please send an email, listing course/s to be dropped, to the UWSI Enrollment Coordinator.
  • The date on this email request will be the date used for issuing any appropriate refund.
  • All fees (such as Payment Plan Fee) are nonrefundable.

Note: Only an email to the UWSI Enrollment Coordinator will be accepted to officially drop a course. The following methods will not result in an officially dropped course:

  • Phone calls or voice messages
  • Attempts to drop a course through Canvas

Tuition Refunds

Deadline for dropping courses is the Monday before the Term begins. 

  • Spring Term: Monday, March 31, 2025
  • Summer Term: Monday, June 23, 2025
  • Fall Term: Monday, September 8, 2025
  • Winter Term: Monday, December 29, 2026

Tuition refunds are given on the following basis:

  • By the deadlines listed above: 100% refund
  • After the deadlines above but before the term begins: 50% refund
  • After the term begins: No refund

Exception Request:

  • Students who feel their individual circumstances warrant an exception from the above-stated policies may appeal by an email to Unity Worldwide Ministries’ Director of Services, Resources, & Events.
  • The appeal should include:
    • a statement of the exception being requested 
    • an explanation of why an exception should be granted
    • any appropriate materials to support the request for the exception.

Course Content

  • Each UWSI term begins on Monday and a “week” runs Monday through Sunday at midnight.
  • The first two weeks of course content and the full syllabus are located in Canvas and are available the Friday before the term begins. Each subsequent Saturday, another week of content becomes available.
    • This content can include readings, videos, websites, and assignments. 
    • It is important to review the content in Canvas so you are prepared for the Live Sessions. 
  • The Live Sessions are offered through Microsoft Teams and are held in the evenings, for most courses, once per week. 
    • During the Live Session students are engaged with the week's content and have the opportunity to demonstrate competency with the topic. 

Term Dates for the 2025-2026 School Year

Spring Term

  • Monday, April 7 through Sunday, June 8, 2025 

Summer Term

  • Monday, June 30  through Sunday, September 7, 2025

Fall Term

  • Monday, September 15 through Sunday, November 23, 2025

Winter Term

  • Monday, January 5 through Sunday, March 15, 2026
Required Core Courses - Registration Opens Monday, June 2, 2025.

 

All courses are 10-weeks long and meet weekly from 7:00 to 9:00 pm Central, except the asynchronous course which does not have a live session.

 

MONDAY EVENING:

  • CC 130 Being: A Beginning Exploration of Self-Discovery
    • (This course is a prerequisite for CC 230 Becoming: A Continuing Exploration of Self-Discovery)

TUESDAY EVENING:

  • CC 110 Unity Metaphysics: Principles & Practices
    • (This course is a prerequisite for CC 210 Practical Metaphysics: Through the Lens of the Twelve Powers & CC 215 The Power of Prayer & Meditation in Unity)

WEDNESDAY EVENING:

  • CC 120 Bible Overview: A Cultural & Historical Perspective
    • (This course is a prerequisite for CC220 The Metaphysical Bible: Unveiling Hidden Wisdom)
  • CC 160 The Christ in All: DEI in Unity

THURSDAY EVENING:

  • CC 105 Unity Foundations 1: Transformative Wisdom of the Fillmores
    • (This course is a prerequisite for CC 205 Unity Foundations 2: Pioneering the Unity Path)

ASYNCHRONOUS:

  • ASY 106: From New Thought to Unity: A Historical Perspective

 

Program Specifics
  • Each course is 10-weeks long and meets via a live session for 2 hours/week
  • 5 to 8 courses are offered per term
At-a-glance View

CC Courses

 

For students needing their equivalencies, please have them do the following:

1. Request your transcripts from our enrollment coordinator, Julie Boyd

2. Email them to me at Diane Venzera

3. We will send you the equivalencies & course recommendations. 

 

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Required Core Course Registration for Summer Term 2025 opens on June 2, 2025.
Summer Term registration will close on June 23, 2025.