The American Experiment is a five-part historical documentary series on Netflix. It was released in 2026 to coincide with the nation's 250th anniversary, the series examines the origins of American democracy, the founding ideals, and whether the nation's system of self-rule can endure.

The American Experiment is comprised of 5 episodes. Each episode covers topics such as Freedom, Tyranny, War, Forms of Government, and Partisanship. To contextualize historical events with modern political debates, the series features commentary and insights from a remarkably wide-ranging mix of politicians, historians, and scholars, including: Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence, Al Gore, Ted Cruz, and Nancy Pelosi. (0.8 Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirement: You will watch all 5 episodes and respond to 9 short essay questions totaling a 2,000 word minimum.

“America at 250: A History” by YaleCourses available on YouTube. This one-time-only course examines U.S. history from 1776 to the present, in advance of the nation's semiquincentennial (or 250th birthday) in 2026. Taught jointly by Professors Joanne Freeman, David Blight, and Beverly Gage, the course emphasizes the history of the nation-state and the contested nature of American national identity. The class explores U.S. political history broadly conceived–not just as a realm of presidents, elections, and wars (though there will be plenty of those) but as a conversation across time between citizens about what the United States is, was, and was meant to be. It proceeds from the premise that the American Revolution was the first but not the last radical act of reimagining in U.S. history. These courses will cover topics of Independence, Power, Democracy, Protest and Reform, Slavery, Immigration, Race, Rights, and Resistance.

Project Requirements: There is a total of 26 individual courses on this video playlist. You may choose any 10 of them you like. You will then answer 5 questions per lecture, totaling a 2,000 word minimum.

The Martian by Andy Weir is a science fiction novel about astronaut Mark Watney, who is stranded alone on Mars after his crew presumes him dead and evacuates during a storm. Told largely through his log entries, the story follows his struggle to survive using his botany and engineering skills to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, while NASA and his crew work to mount a rescue mission. The book is praised for its scientific realism, humor, and focus on problem-solving, and was adapted into a major film starring Matt Damon. (0.82 General Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Read the book and respond to 14 short essay questions, totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

Nineteen Minutes is a Jodi Picoult novel about a school shooting in the fictional town of Sterling, New Hampshire, exploring themes of bullying, prejudice, and community reaction through the trial of shooter Peter Houghton, a former friend of popular girl Josie Cormier, whose testimony is crucial but conflicted. The story delves into the aftermath of the 19-minute tragedy, examining justice, memory, and the societal pressures that lead to violence, featuring returning characters like lawyer Jordan McAfee and detective Patrick Ducharme. (1.03 General Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Read the book and respond to 10 short easy questions, totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.

On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. (0.55 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Read the book and respond to 14 short essay questions, totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: is a timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. It takes you on a race journey from then to now, shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. It also proves that while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited. (0.867 PPO-Professional Studies)

Project Requirements: Read the book and respond to 13 short essay response question, totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Maya Angelou's 1969 autobiography, the first in a series, detailing her early life from age three to seventeen, focusing on overcoming childhood trauma, racism, and abandonment in the American South through literature and self-discovery. It's a coming-of-age story that explores themes of identity, resilience, and the power of words, becoming a classic for its candid portrayal of abuse and prejudice. (0.73 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirement: Read the book and answer 10 short essay questions totaling a 3,000 word minimum response.

The Handmaid's Tale is a 1985 dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood set in the totalitarian, patriarchal Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, where fertile women (Handmaids) are forced into reproductive servitude to repopulate a declining population. Told through the eyes of the protagonist, Offred, the story explores themes of female disempowerment, loss of identity, and the subjugation of reproductive rights, serving as a cautionary tale about how current societal trends could lead to extreme oppression. The novel has been adapted into a film, an opera, and a popular television series, with a sequel, The Testaments, published in 2019. (0.88 General Studies CEUs)

Project Requirement: Read the book and answer 10 short essay questions totaling a 3,000 word minimum response.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899) follows Edna Pontellier, a stifled 19th-century wife and mother who experiences a profound awakening of personal autonomy, sexuality, and artistic passion while vacationing on Grand Isle, Louisiana. The story explores topics of power and privilege through the characters struggle against late 19th-century patriarchal constraints and domesticity, navigating her desire for autonomy against societal conformity. Her journey highlights the interplay of gendered power, white privilege, and the personal cost of pursuing self-discovery outside traditional marriage and motherhood roles. The novel is considered a classic of early feminist literature, exploring the conflict between individual freedom and societal roles. (0.63 General Studies)

Project Requirements: Read the book and answer 13 short essay questions totaling a 3,000 word response.

Educated: is a 2018 memoir by American author Tara Westover. Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world. She details her journey from her isolated life in the rural mountains of Clifton, Idaho to completing a PhD program in history at the University of Cambridge. She started college at 17 having had no formal education. She explores her struggle to reconcile her desire to learn with the world she inhabited with her father. (0.9 General Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Read the book and respond to 10 essay questions totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is an autobiographical comedy book written by South African comedian Trevor Noah, published in 2016. The book focuses on Noah's childhood growing up in his native South Africa after he was born of an illegal interracial relationship during the apartheid era. (0.83 PPO-Professional Studies)

Project Requirement: Read the book and respond to a minimum of 10 essay questions with a 3,000 total word minimum.

The Diary of a Young Girl, commonly referred to as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Anne's diaries were retrieved by Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. Miep gave them to Anne's father, Otto Frank, the family's only survivor, just after the Second World War was over. The diary has since been published in more than 70 languages.

Project Requirement: Read the diary and respond to 11 essay questions provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, is an approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more accessible, inclusive place. (0.55 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Read the book and respond to 5 short essay questions totaling a 1,500-word minimum.

Dune: Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition mankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. (1.4 General Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Read the book and respond to 5 essay questions totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

For the first time in history viewers will have the unique opportunity to experience the story of Jesus presented as a feature film entirely in American Sign Language. JESUS: a Deaf Missions film will take you on a journey with Jesus and his disciples. Witness His miracles, His transformative power, and His challenges to the religious elite in a time of high tension under Roman rule in Judea. Don’t miss this historic film—produced for Deaf by Deaf—with a cast fluent in American Sign Language. Deaf producer / director Joseph D. Josselyn (of Deaf Missions) and Deaf producer Michael Davis (of GUM Vision Studio) bring the movie to life for Deaf audiences. The film includes a soundtrack and English subtitles. (0.5 Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirement: Watch the film and respond to 8 short essay questions with a minimum total of 1,500 words.

Disability Visibility: A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art . . . an ingenious way to live." (0.8 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirement: Read the book and respond to a minimum of 10 essay questions, totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

One Life: London broker Nicholas "Nicky" Winton helps rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in a race against time before the Nazi occupation closes the borders. Fifty years later, he's still haunted by the fate of those he wasn't able to bring to safety. (0.4 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirement: Watch the film and respond to 8 short essay questions, totaling a 1,500 word minimum.

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan’s rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them.

The Roaring Twenties–the Jazz Age–has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson.

Stephenson was a magnetic presence whose life story changed with every telling. Within two years of his arrival in Indiana, he’d become the Grand Dragon of the state and the architect of the strategy that brought the group out of the shadows – their message endorsed from the pulpits of local churches, spread at family picnics and town celebrations. Judges, prosecutors, ministers, governors and senators across the country all proudly proclaimed their membership. But at the peak of his influence, it was a seemingly powerless woman – Madge Oberholtzer – who would reveal his secret cruelties, and whose deathbed testimony finally brought the Klan to their knees.

A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND marries a propulsive drama to a powerful and page-turning reckoning with one of the darkest threads in American history. (0.9 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Read the book and respond to 12 short essay questions, totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

YELLOWFACE, White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel. With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable. (0.87 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Read the book and respond to 8 short essay questions, totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

This pre-recorded workshop is specifically designed for ASL Interpreters, offering essential knowledge and vocabulary to facilitate interpreting everything from conversations with wine enthusiasts to assignments involving wire selection. This workshop is conducted in Spoken English with a provided ASL Vocabulary supplement. (0.2 Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirement: Watch the workshop and then respond to 5 short questions regarding your experience.

From Gesturing and Beyond: Kinesiological Perspectives for Sign Language Users. Presented by Dr. Davis C. Dyke: Ph.D. in Kinesiology, MA in Biomechanics, and Certified ASL Interpreter.

In this pre-recorded workshop, learners will be exposed to the intersectionality between Kinesiology and Sign Language. The main content of this workshop centers around concepts such as, basic biomechanical & ergonomic principles, movement production & nativity, along with injury prevents and career longevity! Workshop is presented in Spoken English. (0.25 Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Watch the 2 hour workshop and respond to 3 short response questions to demonstrate your learning.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s writing”). Some girls were paired with laotongs, “old sames,” in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handkerchiefs, and composed stories, thereby reaching out of their isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. (0.78 PPO Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Read the book and respond to 13 short essay questions totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

The Six Triple Eight (2024), the story of the war’s only Women’s Army Corps unit of color. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion contributed to the war effort in a unique way: by sorting through a three-year backlog of mail (17 million pieces of it!) that hadn’t been delivered to American soldiers far from home. In the face of discrimination and a vast, unfamiliar country divided by global conflict, these 855 women brought hope to the front lines. (0.5 PPO Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Watch the film and respond to 7 essay questions totaling a 2,000 word minimum.

Red Tails (2012): During World War II, the Civil Aeronautics Authority selects 13 black cadets to become part of an experimental program at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The program aims at training colored personnel to become fighter pilots for the Army. However, discrimination, lack of institutional support and the racist belief that these men lacked the intelligence and aptitude for the job dog their every step. Despite this, the Tuskegee Airmen, as they become known, more than prove their worth. (0.5 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Watch the film and respond to 10 discussion questions meeting a 2,000 word minimum.

Killers of the Flower Moon: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.

As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. (0.967 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirement: Read the book and respond to a minimum of 10 short essay questions, totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

Tayo, the hero of Leslie Marmon Silko’s groundbreaking novel Ceremony, is a half-blood Laguna Indian who returns to his reservation after surviving the Bataan Death March of World War II. As he struggles to recover the peace of mind that his experience of warfare has stolen from him, Tayo finds that memory, identity, and his relations with others all resemble the colored threads of his grandmother’s sewing basket. The elements of his personality feel knotted and tangled, and his every attempt to restore them to order merely snags and twists them all the more. Tayo’s problems, however, extend far beyond the frustrations and alienation he encounters in trying to readjust to peacetime. Having risked his life for an America that fundamentally disowns him, Tayo must confront difficult and painful questions about the society he has been fighting for. (0.792 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirement: Read the book and respond to 13 short essay response question with a total of 3,000 word minimum.

DPAN Presents the 2024 Presidential Debates LIVE in ASL.

You will watch former President Donald Trump face Vice President Kamala Harris in their first debate. Along with the 2024 Vice Presidential Debates between Tim Walz and JD Vance IN ASL! Take this learning opportunity to study how the interpreters match the affect of their client and learn vocabulary to interpret the content necessary for 2024 politics. (0.5 Professional Studies CEUs)

Project requirements: Watch both the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates in ASL presented by D-Pan. Answer a series of short response questions per debate.

Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt, the #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick that has sold over three million copies.

Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the cartels, Lydia’s life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. But after her husband’s tell-all profile of the newest drug lord is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.

Forced to flee, Lydia and Luca find themselves joining the countless people trying to reach the United States. Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to? (0.95 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs).

Project Requirement: Read the book and respond to a minimum of 10 essay questions totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

Reading While Black is a personal and scholarly testament to the power and hope of Black biblical interpretation. At a time in which some within the African American community are questioning the place of the Christian faith in the struggle for justice, New Testament scholar McCaulley argues that reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition is invaluable for connecting with a rich faith history and addressing the urgent issues of our times. (0.73 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirements: Read the book and respond to a minimum of 6 essay questions totaling a 3,000 word minimum.

Facing the Mountain, by Daniel James Brown is an unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe. Based on Brown’s extensive interviews with the families of the protagonists as well as deep archival research, it portrays the kaleidoscopic journey of four Japanese-American families and their sons, who volunteered for 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were asked to do the near impossible.

But this is more than a war story. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers’ parents, immigrants who were forced to shutter the businesses, surrender their homes, and submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil. Woven throughout is the chronicle of a brave young man, one of a cadre of patriotic resisters who stood up against their government in defense of their own rights. Whether fighting on battlefields or in courtrooms, these were Americans under unprecedented strain, doing what Americans do best–striving, resisting, pushing back, rising up, standing on principle, laying down their lives, and enduring. (0.967 PPO-Professional Studies CEUs)

Project Requirement: Read the book and respond to 10 short essay discussion questions provided by the publisher for a total of a 3,000 word minimum response.