Because the University Without Walls program functions as a regular academic department within the University of Massachusetts, students do not undertake an academic major (baccalaureate degrees are awarded in "University Without Walls").
Beginning in 2012, the UWW program began offering a "social justice residency," a one-credit, three-day, intensive course held at the University of Massachusetts' Springfield Center that teaches the "theory and practice of social justice activism, particularly as related to racial and economic inequality."[REF] .