You may register online by clicking the “Search and Register for Classes” button below or download a copy of our registration form linked below. The form should be emailed to the address on the form or brought to our office on the 4th floor of the Administration building.
For a copy of the Graduate/Undergraduate Registration Form please contact dgce@worcester.edu.
Registration for Winter 2026 opens on Tuesday October 6.
Registration for Spring 2027 opens on Tuesday December 1.
CJ 340-IL ST: Social Media and Video in Criminal Justice (with Stephen Morreale) The rise of Social Media in our world has changed the way we communicate and distribute information. Social Media and video is being used in CJ organizations to provide information to citizens and also used for investigative purposes. The course explores the platforms used, the pros and cons of Social Media, and the future of this medium.
CJ 340-IL2 ST: Mass Shootings (with Francis Olive) This course provides an interdisciplinary analysis of mass shootings, examining their causes, perpetrators, and impact through criminological, psychological, sociological, and policy perspectives. Students will explore historical trends, case studies, shooter profiles, and contributing factors such as radicalization, social media, and firearm access. The course will also discuss prevention strategies, policy responses, and ethical considerations in media coverage.
CJ 340-IL3 ST: Serial Killers (with Mark Beaudry) This course provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study of multiple murders, using known cases. Its core aim is to answer the “Why” behind the actions of serial killers of the past, highlighting theoretical explanations grounded in a diverse field of anthropology, psychology, sociology, and criminology. Presenting a conceptual framework for explaining the violence serial murderers commit. And, to learn about serial killer stereotypes surrounding race, gender, religion, and social status.
CJ 340-IL4 ST: Cyber Social Engineering (with Mark Beaudry) This course explores the social engineering techniques used through human interactions. Students will review the various psychological manipulation skills used by cybercriminals to gain the victim’s trust and provide stimuli for subsequent actions that break security practices.
EN 190 IL ST: Reading Lolita (with Elizabeth Bidinger) Lolita is famous for the beauty, wit, and verbal control of its first-person narration. It is also the account of a man who uses that verbal control to rename a child, obscure her experience, and solicit his reader’s sympathy. This course takes both facts seriously. We will study Nabokov’s sentences, patterns, allusions, parody, structure, and handling of time while repeatedly asking what Humbert Humbert selects, distorts, suppresses, or cannot understand. Our reading will give sustained attention to Dolores Haze as a child whose life remains partly visible through and against his narration.
After completing the novel, we will examine unreliable narration, publication and censorship, the American road narrative, postwar consumer culture, feminist recovery work, and the book’s cultural afterlives. The goal is neither to place style and ethics on opposite sides nor to settle the novel with a single moral verdict. The goal is to become a more alert reader of how language produces pleasure, authority, evasion, judgment, and resistance.
EN 450 IL ST: Massachusetts Memoirs (with Heather Treseler) Massachusetts has been a hive of literary activity since its beginnings, and it remains one of the most educated and literate states in the nation. This course focuses on memoirs by writers who have written about their lives in Massachusetts and featured its settings in their accounts. Thus, we will consider how the particularities of place—as well as class, gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and religious belief—inform representations of identity in the work of contemporary writers Danzy Senna (Where Did You Sleep Last Night?), Isaac Fitzgerald (Dirtbag, Massachusetts),Vidyan Ravinthiran (Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir), Miriam Levine (Devotion), Caroline Knapp (Pack of Two), and Michael Patrick MacDonald (All Souls: A Family Story from Southie), among others.
SO 299 IL ST: Sociology of Mental Health (with Corrine Stocking) Contact the instructor for the course description.
SO 299 IL2 ST: Media and Society (with Cara Powers) Contact the instructor for the course description.
TH 399 IL ST: Vectorworks (with Kayleigha Zawacki) A fundamental overview of the Computer Aided Drafting software, Vectorworks, and its use in theatrical applications.
BI 980 IL ST: Python for Bioinformatics (with Sebastian Velez) An introduction to the Python programming language and its applications in bioinformatics. Hands-on course that will teach students about reading/writing files, modules and libraries, BioPython, data mining GenBank, and DNA sequence analysis. Includes an introduction to making publication-ready vector graphics. Fully online asynchronous. Lectures are recorded programming demonstrations in screencast format.
EN 998 IL ST: Lolita & Ethics of Reading (with Elizabeth Bidinger) This intensive graduate seminar studies Lolita as a novel of extraordinary formal control and as a work that makes the ethics of reading inseparable from narrative technique. Humbert Humbert’s language generates pleasure, intimacy, and interpretive confidence while it also renames a child, rearranges evidence, and attempts to convert coercion into romance. We will examine how the novel manages that double pressure through unreliable narration, retrospective structure, allusion, parody, multilingual wordplay, genre, geography, and competing distributions of knowledge.
The seminar begins with a complete reading of the novel before turning to major critical conversations about unreliability, misogyny, reader complicity, pornography and censorship, postwar American culture, and the recovery of Dolores Haze from Humbert/s representational control. The final unit considers publication history, book design, adaptation, and the cultural migration of the name Lolita. Students will leave the course with a research-based argument that joins close formal analysis to an explicit account of interpretive method and ethical stakes.
Once you register, you may find you need to adjust your course schedule. You will need to submit an Add/Drop Form to the Division of Graduate and Continuing Education. You cannot register yourself for a course during the Add/Drop period, and will need to use the form below. You can through Self Service.
See “Important Dates” below for the Add/Drop deadline for the current semester.
* 100% online graduate programs do not have an “add” option.
For a copy of the Add/Drop Form please contact dgce@worcester.edu.
Course costs may vary depending on a number of factors. Students are always responsible for both tuition and fees. The following information may be used as a guideline for determining the cost of an Undergraduate Continuing Education or Graduate non-AOP class.
As of 7/1/2023, if paying by credit/debit card, our credit card processor ACI, will be charging a non-refundable service fee. This fee will appear as a separate charge on your credit card statement.
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Please contact Cherie Milosh at cmilosh@worcester.edu to have her provide an email confirming your Veteran Status. This is needed every semester.
July 7, 2026 Fall registration opens
August 27, 2026 Older Student Registration for Fall 2026
September 2, 2026 Fall 2026 classes begin
September 8, 2026 Last day to add Continuing Education and Graduate Classes
September 15, 2026 Last day to drop Continuing Education and Graduate Classes
October 6, 2026 Winter 2027 registration begins
November 2, 2026 Last day to withdraw from Continuing Education/Graduate classes
November 9, 2026 Last day to elect pass/fail grading option for Continuing Education/Graduate classes
December 7, 2026 Last day of classes for Fall 2026
December 29, 2026 Final grades for Fall 2026 due in the Registrar’s Office
Holidays/Breaks September 7, 2026 Labor Day: No classes/ University closed
October 12, 2026 Indigenous Peoples’ Day: No classes/ University closed
November 11, 2026 Veterans’ Day: No classes/ University closed
November 25-28, 2026 Thanksgiving Recess: No classes
October 6, 2026 Winter registration opens
December 23, 2026 Older Student Registration for Winter 2027
December 28, 2026 Winter 2027 classes begin
January 4, 2027 Last day to add/drop Continuing Education and Graduate Classes
January 8, 2027 Last day to withdraw from Continuing Education/Graduate classes
January 8, 2027 Last day to elect pass/fail grading option for Continuing Education/Graduate classes
January 17, 2027 Last day of classes for Winter 2027
January 25, 2027
Final grades for Winter 2027 due in the Registrar’s Office
Holidays/Breaks January 1, 2027 New Years’ Day: No classes/ University closed
December 1, 2026 Spring registration opens
January 14, 2027 Older Student Registration for Spring 2027
January 19, 2027 Spring 2027 classes begin
January 25, 2027 Last day to add Continuing Education and Graduate Classes
February 1, 2027 Last day to drop Continuing Education and Graduate Classes
March 2, 2027 Summer 2027 registration begins
March 30, 2027 Last day to withdraw from Continuing Education/Graduate classes
April 5, 2027 Last day to elect pass/fail grading option for Continuing Education/Graduate classes
May 3, 2027 Last day of classes for Spring 2027
May 21, 2027 Final grades for Spring 2027 due in the Registrar’s Office
Holidays/Breaks January 18, 2027 Martin Luther King Jr. Day: No classes/ University closed
February 15, 2027 Presidents’ Day: No classes/ University closed
March 15-20, 2027 Spring Break: No classes
April 19, 2027 Patriots’ Day: No classes/ University closed
