Intro to Black Behavior Analysis: Foundational Coursework
9-Week Live Virtual Cohort-Based Learning Series • 18 CEUs
Oct 3, 2026 to Jan 31, 2027 | Bi-Weekly
COST
Introduction to Black Behavior Analysis is a rigorous nine-course learning series centered on seminal works by Black scholars who examined behavior, culture, racism, mental health, education, community, power, and liberation.
Across the series, participants will engage original scholarship and examine its relevance to contemporary behavioral practice. The curriculum explores Black behavioral thought through topics including professional praxis, Radical Black Behaviorism, behavioral therapy, learned helplessness, medical distrust, culturally responsive assessment and treatment, academic intervention, and community-level behavior change.
This is not a DEI overview or a collection of introductory webinars. This is academic-style coursework. Participants should expect to read, think, discuss, write, analyze, and critically engage the scholarship presented throughout the series.
Enrollment includes live instruction, a syllabus, access to assigned course readings, discussion boards, applied assignments, praxis reflections, and course materials.
Participants may attend courses for continuing education credit; however, CEU completion and academic completion are separate. Participants seeking successful academic completion of the series must satisfy the requirements established in the course syllabus.
Successful academic completion will also be required for individuals who wish to apply in the future to serve as an instructor in the forthcoming Black Behavior Analysis certification program(launching in 2027). Completion does not guarantee instructor selection.
SERIES OBJECTIVES
Participants will:
- Examine behavior through Black historical, cultural, social, and environmental contexts.
- Analyze seminal Black behavioral and psychological scholarship and its relevance to contemporary behavior analysis.
- Evaluate the roles of racism, power, institutional contingencies, and cultural context in behavioral assessment and intervention.
- Distinguish individual behavioral deficits from cultural differences, contextual adaptations, environmental barriers, and systemic contingencies.
- Critically evaluate behavioral technologies according to who defines treatment goals, who controls intervention, and who benefits from behavior change.
- Apply culturally responsive principles to assessment, treatment, education, health care, and community-based behavioral practice.
- Analyze when the appropriate unit of intervention extends beyond an individual to families, organizations, institutions, communities, or systems.
- Integrate Black scholarship, behavioral science, community accountability, and liberation into an evolving professional praxis.
- Identify the possibilities and limitations of behavioral science in addressing social, political, economic, and community-level concerns.
SESSIONS
WHAT STUDENTS RECEIVE
Full-series enrollment includes:
- Nine live virtual courses
- 18 hours of live instruction
- Up to 18 CEUs
- Complete academic course syllabus
- Access to the designated course reading for each class
- Applied assignments
- Praxis reflections and development
- Peer scholarly engagement
- Access to the academic completion pathway
Important: Course readings are provided to enrolled participants for their individual educational use in accordance with the permissions applicable to the series and should not be redistributed.
ACADEMIC COURSE NOTICE
Please Read Before Enrolling
Introduction to Black Behavior Analysis is structured as an active academic-style coursework rather than a passive webinar series.
Participants pursuing academic completion should expect assigned readings, live participation, discussion boards, peer responses, applied assignments, APA 7th edition expectations, and a culminating praxis assignment.
Participants attending for CEU credit must satisfy the applicable continuing education requirements for each course. Receiving CEU credit does not, by itself, constitute successful academic completion of the series.
Detailed academic requirements and grading policies are provided in the course syllabus following enrollment.
COST
We originally announced Introduction to Black Behavior Analysis at a higher tuition rate. Given the current economic climate, we intentionally lowered the cost of the full nine-course series so that more students, practitioners, and scholars can access this work.
We know the value of this course as there is nothing else like it currently available in the field of Behavior Analysis. This is a nine-course academic series built around seminal Black behavioral scholarship, with live instruction, assigned readings, discussions, applied assignments, a full syllabus, and up to 18 CEUs. In scope and rigor, it is far closer to a graduate-level course than a typical webinar series, and comparable academic coursework could easily cost thousands of dollars.
However, we desire to respond to the larger cultural and economic context in which people are living right now. People are making hard decisions about groceries, gas, housing, childcare, tuition, and professional development. We do not want important Black scholarship to become something only people with significant disposable income can afford to study.
We also recognize that some members of our community have greater financial capacity than others. If you are able and would like to contribute beyond your registration fee, you may make an additional tax-deductible donation at checkout. Donations will help support scholarships for individuals who may otherwise be unable to participate in the series.
Our goal is to make this scholarship more accessible without diminishing the depth, rigor, or value of the academic experience.
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