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Summer 2024
- Summer 2024 Enrollment
- Lower-Division courses
- Upper-Division courses
- CORE Cultural Diversity
- CORE Humanities
- CORE International Perspectives
- CORE Natural & Physical Sciences
- CORE Social Sciences
- CLAS Behavioral Sciences
- CLAS Communicative Skills
- CLAS Humanities
- CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences
- CLAS Social Sciences
- CORE Behavioral Sciences
- Online Courses
- Maymester Courses
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Summer 2024 (including Maymester) enrollment/add/drop continues until classes begin.
- Be aware of Academic Dates and Deadlines.
- Prepare to register: Review your degree audit, discuss your degree plan with your major advisors, and create your class schedule by filling your shopping cart.
- See ADVISING STEPS and HOW TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES and enroll as soon as you can.
- A student may take up to one Maymester course. Students enrolled for more than one Maymester class will be administratively dropped from the second class. Maymester credit hours are part of your Summer courseload.
- As a CLAS BA or BS degree-seeking student, you need to work with your major and minor faculty advisors to plan out major coursework.
- Review your CORE and CLAS Requirements with your assigned CLAS Academic Advisor.
- Contact CLAS Advising, CLAS.Advising@UCDenver.edu, 303-315-7100, with questions.
- If you are completing your degree requirements in Summer, apply for graduation in UCDAccess by Tue June 11 application deadline: In UCDAccess, find your "Student Center,” select “Academics," then select "Apply for graduation."
- Prepare to earn your best grades with Success Strategies.
Highlight Spotlights:
CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Summer 2024 Online - See flyer
- This is a lecture-only online course intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field. The course is designed for students who have never had a chemistry course or who have not taken general chemistry in 5+ years. Topics include the classification of matter, the Metric system, dimensional analysis, atomic theory and the structure of atoms, periodic relationships, energy and temperature, gas laws and the kinetic molecular theory, compounds and nomenclature of inorganic compounds, the mole, stoichiometry, types of chemical reactions, balancing equations, electron configurations, and chemical bonding. Enrollment in this course is strongly encouraged prior to enrollment in Chem 2031 if the student does not have a strong and recent background in general chemistry. Note: College Algebra or the equivalent is strongly recommended for optimal student success. Students may not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061.
- CHEM 1000 can be used as your as your CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences requirement if you have 2 courses-with-labs in CORE Natural & Physical Sciences -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PSCI 3347 Film and Politics
Summer 2024 Online 6/27-7/30
- Whether you watch a hard-hitting documentary or the latest Marvel movie, Citizen Kane or Star Wars, your favorite films are packed with political messages! In PSCI 3347: Film and Politics, students will learn how to critically evaluate films—both classic and contemporary—as an inherently political medium. Whether designed as propaganda or entertainment, films shape and reflect critical issues of our political and social culture in ways that might surprise you!
- PSCI 3347 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PHIL 3030 Happiness and the Good Life
Summer 2024 Online
- Happiness is something we all want, but what is it? Happiness can be difficult to define, let alone to achieve. Is it a state? A feeling? An illusion? Is happiness something we can even control? Is it related to morality and ethics? This course will consider various philosophers' writings on happiness and the good life, and may include comparisons that range across time, culture, and other disciplines (such as economics and positive psychology).
- PHIL 3030 can be used as a CLAS Humanities course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 2024 In-Person
- Introduces the study of human biological evolution, both processes and outcomes, from primate ancestors to fossil hominids to contemporary human populations. Methods of obtaining and interpreting data concerning the genetic, biological and evolutionary basis of physical variation in living and skeletal populations. Note: 3 hours of lecture and a 2 hour lab each week.
- ANTH 1303 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Summer 2024 Online - See flyer
- This is a lecture-only online course intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field. The course is designed for students who have never had a chemistry course or who have not taken general chemistry in 5+ years. Topics include the classification of matter, the Metric system, dimensional analysis, atomic theory and the structure of atoms, periodic relationships, energy and temperature, gas laws and the kinetic molecular theory, compounds and nomenclature of inorganic compounds, the mole, stoichiometry, types of chemical reactions, balancing equations, electron configurations, and chemical bonding. Enrollment in this course is strongly encouraged prior to enrollment in Chem 2031 if the student does not have a strong and recent background in general chemistry. Note: College Algebra or the equivalent is strongly recommended for optimal student success. Students may not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061.
- CHEM 1000 can be used as your as your CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences requirement if you have 2 courses-with-labs in CORE Natural & Physical Sciences -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CHEM 1494 Forensic Chemistry
Summer 2024 Online
- This one semester chemistry online course-with-lab is designed to engage a non-science major through the high-interest topic of criminal investigations. In this course, using the theme of forensic science students will be introduced to a basic understanding of chemistry, the physical and chemical properties of matter, simple types of chemical reactions and equations, and molecular structure of drugs and biomolecules. Note: Two years of high school science and one year of high school algebra are strongly recommended for optimal success. Students will not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061.
- CHEM 1494 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- used as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Summer 2024 Online
- We live in a media-saturated world: radio, TV, film, music, social media, smartphones and more. This class explores how media shape our everyday lives and how recent trends and shifts in media technologies are presenting opportunities for and challenges to democratic processes.
- COMM 1021 can be used as a CORE Behavioral Sciences course -or- used as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
ENVS 1044 & ENVS 1045 Introduction to Environmental Sciences + Lab
Summer 2024 Online
- Climate change. Acid rain. Water pollution. Extinction. You undoubtably know the long list of challenges facing the Earth's environmental systems, but do you truly know how these issues develop? What about the (sometimes hidden) part you play in their creation or the simple actions that you can take to solve them? From start to finish, ENVS 1044 and 1045 are focused on making you a more informed and engaged citizen on topics that will define the next century. Through lecture, discussion, classroom activities, and the ENVS 1045 laboratory, this course will explore topics in a wide survey of environmental science areas including sustainability, agriculture, waste management, energy, climate, atmosphere, water, and wildlife. Within a community of your peers, we will focus on not just defining the problems, but also developing straightforward and achievable actions that will enable you to become part of the solution.
- ENVS 1044+1045 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- used as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Summer 2024 Online
- Are you interested in how our planet functions? How the weather shapes the land and how the land influences the weather? How the planet’s land masses formed, moved, were destroyed, and reformed? Then GEOG 1202 is for you! Topics include the fundamental features of day-to-day weather and global climate change; as well as how the continents were created (volcanoes, mountain-building, faulting), drifted (plate tectonics) and were eroded (by rain, rivers, ice, wind and waves) and ultimately recycled (subduction of continental plates into oceanic trenches). This course is a MUST for anyone interested in an introduction to the earth sciences.
- GEOG 1202 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab if you already have 2 courses-with-labs in CORE -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PHIL 1012 Truth, Reality, and the Good Life: Introduction to Philosophy
Summer 2024 Online
- We’re commonly told to “do the right thing,” and everybody seems to agree that we should. But what is right? What is wrong? How can we see and know the difference? This course helps students examine and analyze the ethical concepts, situations, and problems raised by these fundamental questions. Specific problems will vary with contemporary concerns, e.g., poverty, war, injustice, famine, abortion, punishment, and environmental sustainability. The course goal is to help students sharpen their ethical reasoning skills so they can better navigate and contribute to the ethical, social, and political arenas in which they will live their lives.
- PHIL 1012 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PHIL 2441 Logic, Language and Scientific Reasoning
Summer 2024 offered In-Person or Online
- This course covers introduces argumentation, critical thinking and scientific reasoning. Covers rules of logical inference, informal fallacies, problem solving, and probabilistic reasoning. Enhances analytical and critical thinking skills tested on LSAT and MCAT, central to advancement in sciences, and broadly desired by employers.
- PHIL 2441 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Communicative Skills course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PSCI 1001 Introduction to Political Science: The Quest for Freedom and Justice
Summer 2024 Online 6/27-7/30
- Curious about power, legitimacy, authority, socialization and revolution? PSCI 1001 introduces the study of politics, its human importance, and its relationship to social institutions. This course will analyze the relationship between individual political behavior and characteristics of the political system.
- PSCI 1001 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course -or- used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Required for PSCI majors and open to all students. No prereqs.
CLAS BA & BS students must earn at least 45 hours in courses taken as upper-division (CU Denver upper-division courses are numbered 3000-or-higher).
ANTH 4090 Psychedelic Anthropology
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, open to Juniors and Seniors, studies psychotropic drugs, both legal and illicit, examining their use and meaning within cultures of health and wellness, and the plant medicine, spiritual, social, political and economic issues that surround their production, use and misuse. Course activities focus on ethnographic research strategies and arts-based approaches to public scholarship.
- ANTH 4090 can be used as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: 60 or more hours earned.
ETST 3110 Indigenous Studies
Summer 2024 Online
- This course examines how communities in diverse world regions preserve tradition, share knowledge, and respond to influences both within and outside of their immediate environments.
- ETST 3110 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
ETST 3704 Culture, Racism and Alienation
Summer 2024 Online
- This CORE Cultural Diversity course exams the effects of racism on the personality of participants in racist cultures.
- ETST 3704 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PHIL 3030 Happiness and the Good Life
Summer 2024 Online
- Happiness is something we all want, but what is it? Happiness can be difficult to define, let alone to achieve. Is it a state? A feeling? An illusion? Is happiness something we can even control? Is it related to morality and ethics? This course will consider various philosophers' writings on happiness and the good life, and may include comparisons that range across time, culture, and other disciplines (such as economics and positive psychology).
- PHIL 3030 can be used as a CLAS Humanities course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PSCI 3347 Film and Politics
Summer 2024 Online 6/27-7/30
- Whether you watch a hard-hitting documentary or the latest Marvel movie, Citizen Kane or Star Wars, your favorite films are packed with political messages! In PSCI 3347: Film and Politics, students will learn how to critically evaluate films—both classic and contemporary—as an inherently political medium. Whether designed as propaganda or entertainment, films shape and reflect critical issues of our political and social culture in ways that might surprise you!
- PSCI 3347 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
SOCY 3010 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, for Sophomore, Junior and Senior students, explores the history of sexuality, cross-cultural studies and primate modeling. Increases the understanding of differences in views of sexuality, specifically the link between sex and reproduction and its role as the motivation for gender roles and sex acts.
- SOCY 3010 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Open to students with 30 earned hours or more.
SOCY 3720 Global Perspectives on Social Issues
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, for students who have earned 30 hours or more, discusses how various cultural and social frameworks are used in a sociological examination and international comparison of select social issues, such as globalization, terrorism, inequality and discrimination. Analysis of selected issues across cultures explores how societal and cultural characteristics shape these issues.
- SOCY 3720 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Open to students with 30 earned hours or more.
ETST 3704 Culture, Racism and Alienation
Summer 2024 Online
- This CORE Cultural Diversity course exams the effects of racism on the personality of participants in racist cultures.
- ETST 3704 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PHIL 1012 Truth, Reality, and the Good Life: Introduction to Philosophy
Summer 2024 Online
- We’re commonly told to “do the right thing,” and everybody seems to agree that we should. But what is right? What is wrong? How can we see and know the difference? This course helps students examine and analyze the ethical concepts, situations, and problems raised by these fundamental questions. Specific problems will vary with contemporary concerns, e.g., poverty, war, injustice, famine, abortion, punishment, and environmental sustainability. The course goal is to help students sharpen their ethical reasoning skills so they can better navigate and contribute to the ethical, social, and political arenas in which they will live their lives.
- PHIL 1012 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PHIL 2441 Logic, Language and Scientific Reasoning
Summer 2024 offered In-Person or Online
- This course covers introduces argumentation, critical thinking and scientific reasoning. Covers rules of logical inference, informal fallacies, problem solving, and probabilistic reasoning. Enhances analytical and critical thinking skills tested on LSAT and MCAT, central to advancement in sciences, and broadly desired by employers.
- PHIL 2441 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Communicative Skills course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
ETST 3110 Indigenous Studies
Summer 2024 Online
- This course examines how communities in diverse world regions preserve tradition, share knowledge, and respond to influences both within and outside of their immediate environments.
- ETST 3110 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
SOCY 3720 Global Perspectives on Social Issues
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, for students who have earned 30 hours or more, discusses how various cultural and social frameworks are used in a sociological examination and international comparison of select social issues, such as globalization, terrorism, inequality and discrimination. Analysis of selected issues across cultures explores how societal and cultural characteristics shape these issues.
- SOCY 3720 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Open to students with 30 earned hours or more.
ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 2024 In-Person
- Introduces the study of human biological evolution, both processes and outcomes, from primate ancestors to fossil hominids to contemporary human populations. Methods of obtaining and interpreting data concerning the genetic, biological and evolutionary basis of physical variation in living and skeletal populations. Note: 3 hours of lecture and a 2 hour lab each week.
- ANTH 1303 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CHEM 1494 Forensic Chemistry
Summer 2024 Online
- This one semester chemistry online course-with-lab is designed to engage a non-science major through the high-interest topic of criminal investigations. In this course, using the theme of forensic science students will be introduced to a basic understanding of chemistry, the physical and chemical properties of matter, simple types of chemical reactions and equations, and molecular structure of drugs and biomolecules. Note: Two years of high school science and one year of high school algebra are strongly recommended for optimal success. Students will not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061.
- CHEM 1494 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- used as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
ENVS 1044 & ENVS 1045 Introduction to Environmental Sciences + Lab
Summer 2024 Online
- Climate change. Acid rain. Water pollution. Extinction. You undoubtably know the long list of challenges facing the Earth's environmental systems, but do you truly know how these issues develop? What about the (sometimes hidden) part you play in their creation or the simple actions that you can take to solve them? From start to finish, ENVS 1044 and 1045 are focused on making you a more informed and engaged citizen on topics that will define the next century. Through lecture, discussion, classroom activities, and the ENVS 1045 laboratory, this course will explore topics in a wide survey of environmental science areas including sustainability, agriculture, waste management, energy, climate, atmosphere, water, and wildlife. Within a community of your peers, we will focus on not just defining the problems, but also developing straightforward and achievable actions that will enable you to become part of the solution.
- ENVS 1044+1045 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- used as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Summer 2024 Online
- Are you interested in how our planet functions? How the weather shapes the land and how the land influences the weather? How the planet’s land masses formed, moved, were destroyed, and reformed? Then GEOG 1202 is for you! Topics include the fundamental features of day-to-day weather and global climate change; as well as how the continents were created (volcanoes, mountain-building, faulting), drifted (plate tectonics) and were eroded (by rain, rivers, ice, wind and waves) and ultimately recycled (subduction of continental plates into oceanic trenches). This course is a MUST for anyone interested in an introduction to the earth sciences.
- GEOG 1202 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab if you already have 2 courses-with-labs in CORE -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PSCI 1001 Introduction to Political Science: The Quest for Freedom and Justice
Summer 2024 Online 6/27-7/30
- Curious about power, legitimacy, authority, socialization and revolution? PSCI 1001 introduces the study of politics, its human importance, and its relationship to social institutions. This course will analyze the relationship between individual political behavior and characteristics of the political system.
- PSCI 1001 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course -or- used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Required for PSCI majors and open to all students. No prereqs.
CLAS Behavioral Sciences Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ANTH, COMM, or PSYC prefix.
ANTH 4090 Psychedelic Anthropology
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, open to Juniors and Seniors, studies psychotropic drugs, both legal and illicit, examining their use and meaning within cultures of health and wellness, and the plant medicine, spiritual, social, political and economic issues that surround their production, use and misuse. Course activities focus on ethnographic research strategies and arts-based approaches to public scholarship.
- ANTH 4090 can be used as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: 60 or more hours earned.
COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Summer 2024 Online
- We live in a media-saturated world: radio, TV, film, music, social media, smartphones and more. This class explores how media shape our everyday lives and how recent trends and shifts in media technologies are presenting opportunities for and challenges to democratic processes.
- COMM 1021 can be used as a CORE Behavioral Sciences course -or- used as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
CLAS Communicative Skills Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course from the CLAS Requirements Communicative Skills list. A grade of C- or better is required.
PHIL 2441 Logic, Language and Scientific Reasoning
Summer 2024 offered In-Person or Online
- This course covers introduces argumentation, critical thinking and scientific reasoning. Covers rules of logical inference, informal fallacies, problem solving, and probabilistic reasoning. Enhances analytical and critical thinking skills tested on LSAT and MCAT, central to advancement in sciences, and broadly desired by employers.
- PHIL 2441 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Communicative Skills course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CLAS Humanities Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ENGL, HIST, HEHM, HUMN, PHIL, or RLST prefix or a SPAN, FREN, GRMN, CHIN culture or literature course. Students may not use a language acquisition course or a lower-division English Composition course such as ENGL1010 to satisfy this requirement.
PHIL 1012 Truth, Reality, and the Good Life: Introduction to Philosophy
Summer 2024 Online
- We’re commonly told to “do the right thing,” and everybody seems to agree that we should. But what is right? What is wrong? How can we see and know the difference? This course helps students examine and analyze the ethical concepts, situations, and problems raised by these fundamental questions. Specific problems will vary with contemporary concerns, e.g., poverty, war, injustice, famine, abortion, punishment, and environmental sustainability. The course goal is to help students sharpen their ethical reasoning skills so they can better navigate and contribute to the ethical, social, and political arenas in which they will live their lives.
- PHIL 1012 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PHIL 2441 Logic, Language and Scientific Reasoning
Summer 2024 offered In-Person or Online
- This course covers introduces argumentation, critical thinking and scientific reasoning. Covers rules of logical inference, informal fallacies, problem solving, and probabilistic reasoning. Enhances analytical and critical thinking skills tested on LSAT and MCAT, central to advancement in sciences, and broadly desired by employers.
- PHIL 2441 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Communicative Skills course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PHIL 3030 Happiness and the Good Life
Summer 2024 Online
- Happiness is something we all want, but what is it? Happiness can be difficult to define, let alone to achieve. Is it a state? A feeling? An illusion? Is happiness something we can even control? Is it related to morality and ethics? This course will consider various philosophers' writings on happiness and the good life, and may include comparisons that range across time, culture, and other disciplines (such as economics and positive psychology).
- PHIL 3030 can be used as a CLAS Humanities course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with a BIOL, CHEM, GEOL, PHYS, or MATH prefix, or ANTH 1303, ENVS 1044+1045, GEOG 1202, PSYC 2220. If you have only one science course-with-lab for the CU Denver Core Curriculum, this course MUST have an associated lab.
ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 2024 In-Person
- Introduces the study of human biological evolution, both processes and outcomes, from primate ancestors to fossil hominids to contemporary human populations. Methods of obtaining and interpreting data concerning the genetic, biological and evolutionary basis of physical variation in living and skeletal populations. Note: 3 hours of lecture and a 2 hour lab each week.
- ANTH 1303 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Summer 2024 Online - See flyer
- This is a lecture-only online course intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field. The course is designed for students who have never had a chemistry course or who have not taken general chemistry in 5+ years. Topics include the classification of matter, the Metric system, dimensional analysis, atomic theory and the structure of atoms, periodic relationships, energy and temperature, gas laws and the kinetic molecular theory, compounds and nomenclature of inorganic compounds, the mole, stoichiometry, types of chemical reactions, balancing equations, electron configurations, and chemical bonding. Enrollment in this course is strongly encouraged prior to enrollment in Chem 2031 if the student does not have a strong and recent background in general chemistry. Note: College Algebra or the equivalent is strongly recommended for optimal student success. Students may not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061.
- CHEM 1000 can be used as your as your CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences requirement if you have 2 courses-with-labs in CORE Natural & Physical Sciences -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CHEM 1494 Forensic Chemistry
Summer 2024 Online
- This one semester chemistry online course-with-lab is designed to engage a non-science major through the high-interest topic of criminal investigations. In this course, using the theme of forensic science students will be introduced to a basic understanding of chemistry, the physical and chemical properties of matter, simple types of chemical reactions and equations, and molecular structure of drugs and biomolecules. Note: Two years of high school science and one year of high school algebra are strongly recommended for optimal success. Students will not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061.
- CHEM 1494 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- used as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
ENVS 1044 & ENVS 1045 Introduction to Environmental Sciences + Lab
Summer 2024 Online
- Climate change. Acid rain. Water pollution. Extinction. You undoubtably know the long list of challenges facing the Earth's environmental systems, but do you truly know how these issues develop? What about the (sometimes hidden) part you play in their creation or the simple actions that you can take to solve them? From start to finish, ENVS 1044 and 1045 are focused on making you a more informed and engaged citizen on topics that will define the next century. Through lecture, discussion, classroom activities, and the ENVS 1045 laboratory, this course will explore topics in a wide survey of environmental science areas including sustainability, agriculture, waste management, energy, climate, atmosphere, water, and wildlife. Within a community of your peers, we will focus on not just defining the problems, but also developing straightforward and achievable actions that will enable you to become part of the solution.
- ENVS 1044+1045 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- used as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Summer 2024 Online
- Are you interested in how our planet functions? How the weather shapes the land and how the land influences the weather? How the planet’s land masses formed, moved, were destroyed, and reformed? Then GEOG 1202 is for you! Topics include the fundamental features of day-to-day weather and global climate change; as well as how the continents were created (volcanoes, mountain-building, faulting), drifted (plate tectonics) and were eroded (by rain, rivers, ice, wind and waves) and ultimately recycled (subduction of continental plates into oceanic trenches). This course is a MUST for anyone interested in an introduction to the earth sciences.
- GEOG 1202 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab if you already have 2 courses-with-labs in CORE -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CLAS Social Sciences Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ECON, ETST, GEOG, PBHL, PSCI, or SOCY prefix or ENVS1342, RLST3800 or SJUS2000.
ETST 3110 Indigenous Studies
Summer 2024 Online
- This course examines how communities in diverse world regions preserve tradition, share knowledge, and respond to influences both within and outside of their immediate environments.
- ETST 3110 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
ETST 3704 Culture, Racism and Alienation
Summer 2024 Online
- This CORE Cultural Diversity course exams the effects of racism on the personality of participants in racist cultures.
- ETST 3704 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PSCI 1001 Introduction to Political Science: The Quest for Freedom and Justice
Summer 2024 Online 6/27-7/30
- Curious about power, legitimacy, authority, socialization and revolution? PSCI 1001 introduces the study of politics, its human importance, and its relationship to social institutions. This course will analyze the relationship between individual political behavior and characteristics of the political system.
- PSCI 1001 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course -or- used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Required for PSCI majors and open to all students. No prereqs.
PSCI 3347 Film and Politics
Summer 2024 Online 6/27-7/30
- Whether you watch a hard-hitting documentary or the latest Marvel movie, Citizen Kane or Star Wars, your favorite films are packed with political messages! In PSCI 3347: Film and Politics, students will learn how to critically evaluate films—both classic and contemporary—as an inherently political medium. Whether designed as propaganda or entertainment, films shape and reflect critical issues of our political and social culture in ways that might surprise you!
- PSCI 3347 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
SOCY 3010 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, for Sophomore, Junior and Senior students, explores the history of sexuality, cross-cultural studies and primate modeling. Increases the understanding of differences in views of sexuality, specifically the link between sex and reproduction and its role as the motivation for gender roles and sex acts.
- SOCY 3010 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Open to students with 30 earned hours or more.
SOCY 3720 Global Perspectives on Social Issues
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, for students who have earned 30 hours or more, discusses how various cultural and social frameworks are used in a sociological examination and international comparison of select social issues, such as globalization, terrorism, inequality and discrimination. Analysis of selected issues across cultures explores how societal and cultural characteristics shape these issues.
- SOCY 3720 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Open to students with 30 earned hours or more.
COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Summer 2024 Online
- We live in a media-saturated world: radio, TV, film, music, social media, smartphones and more. This class explores how media shape our everyday lives and how recent trends and shifts in media technologies are presenting opportunities for and challenges to democratic processes.
- COMM 1021 can be used as a CORE Behavioral Sciences course -or- used as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
Online courses are taught asynchronously through Canvas at https://ucdenver.instructure.com.
ANTH 4090 Psychedelic Anthropology
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, open to Juniors and Seniors, studies psychotropic drugs, both legal and illicit, examining their use and meaning within cultures of health and wellness, and the plant medicine, spiritual, social, political and economic issues that surround their production, use and misuse. Course activities focus on ethnographic research strategies and arts-based approaches to public scholarship.
- ANTH 4090 can be used as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: 60 or more hours earned.
CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Summer 2024 Online - See flyer
- This is a lecture-only online course intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field. The course is designed for students who have never had a chemistry course or who have not taken general chemistry in 5+ years. Topics include the classification of matter, the Metric system, dimensional analysis, atomic theory and the structure of atoms, periodic relationships, energy and temperature, gas laws and the kinetic molecular theory, compounds and nomenclature of inorganic compounds, the mole, stoichiometry, types of chemical reactions, balancing equations, electron configurations, and chemical bonding. Enrollment in this course is strongly encouraged prior to enrollment in Chem 2031 if the student does not have a strong and recent background in general chemistry. Note: College Algebra or the equivalent is strongly recommended for optimal student success. Students may not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061.
- CHEM 1000 can be used as your as your CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences requirement if you have 2 courses-with-labs in CORE Natural & Physical Sciences -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CHEM 1494 Forensic Chemistry
Summer 2024 Online
- This one semester chemistry online course-with-lab is designed to engage a non-science major through the high-interest topic of criminal investigations. In this course, using the theme of forensic science students will be introduced to a basic understanding of chemistry, the physical and chemical properties of matter, simple types of chemical reactions and equations, and molecular structure of drugs and biomolecules. Note: Two years of high school science and one year of high school algebra are strongly recommended for optimal success. Students will not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061.
- CHEM 1494 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- used as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Summer 2024 Online
- We live in a media-saturated world: radio, TV, film, music, social media, smartphones and more. This class explores how media shape our everyday lives and how recent trends and shifts in media technologies are presenting opportunities for and challenges to democratic processes.
- COMM 1021 can be used as a CORE Behavioral Sciences course -or- used as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
ENVS 1044 & ENVS 1045 Introduction to Environmental Sciences + Lab
Summer 2024 Online
- Climate change. Acid rain. Water pollution. Extinction. You undoubtably know the long list of challenges facing the Earth's environmental systems, but do you truly know how these issues develop? What about the (sometimes hidden) part you play in their creation or the simple actions that you can take to solve them? From start to finish, ENVS 1044 and 1045 are focused on making you a more informed and engaged citizen on topics that will define the next century. Through lecture, discussion, classroom activities, and the ENVS 1045 laboratory, this course will explore topics in a wide survey of environmental science areas including sustainability, agriculture, waste management, energy, climate, atmosphere, water, and wildlife. Within a community of your peers, we will focus on not just defining the problems, but also developing straightforward and achievable actions that will enable you to become part of the solution.
- ENVS 1044+1045 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- used as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Summer 2024 Online
- Are you interested in how our planet functions? How the weather shapes the land and how the land influences the weather? How the planet’s land masses formed, moved, were destroyed, and reformed? Then GEOG 1202 is for you! Topics include the fundamental features of day-to-day weather and global climate change; as well as how the continents were created (volcanoes, mountain-building, faulting), drifted (plate tectonics) and were eroded (by rain, rivers, ice, wind and waves) and ultimately recycled (subduction of continental plates into oceanic trenches). This course is a MUST for anyone interested in an introduction to the earth sciences.
- GEOG 1202 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab if you already have 2 courses-with-labs in CORE -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
ETST 3704 Culture, Racism and Alienation
Summer 2024 Online
- This CORE Cultural Diversity course exams the effects of racism on the personality of participants in racist cultures.
- ETST 3704 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
ETST 3110 Indigenous Studies
Summer 2024 Online
- This course examines how communities in diverse world regions preserve tradition, share knowledge, and respond to influences both within and outside of their immediate environments.
- ETST 3110 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PHIL 1012 Truth, Reality, and the Good Life: Introduction to Philosophy
Summer 2024 Online
- We’re commonly told to “do the right thing,” and everybody seems to agree that we should. But what is right? What is wrong? How can we see and know the difference? This course helps students examine and analyze the ethical concepts, situations, and problems raised by these fundamental questions. Specific problems will vary with contemporary concerns, e.g., poverty, war, injustice, famine, abortion, punishment, and environmental sustainability. The course goal is to help students sharpen their ethical reasoning skills so they can better navigate and contribute to the ethical, social, and political arenas in which they will live their lives.
- PHIL 1012 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PHIL 2441 Logic, Language and Scientific Reasoning
Summer 2024 offered In-Person or Online
- This course covers introduces argumentation, critical thinking and scientific reasoning. Covers rules of logical inference, informal fallacies, problem solving, and probabilistic reasoning. Enhances analytical and critical thinking skills tested on LSAT and MCAT, central to advancement in sciences, and broadly desired by employers.
- PHIL 2441 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Communicative Skills course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PHIL 3030 Happiness and the Good Life
Summer 2024 Online
- Happiness is something we all want, but what is it? Happiness can be difficult to define, let alone to achieve. Is it a state? A feeling? An illusion? Is happiness something we can even control? Is it related to morality and ethics? This course will consider various philosophers' writings on happiness and the good life, and may include comparisons that range across time, culture, and other disciplines (such as economics and positive psychology).
- PHIL 3030 can be used as a CLAS Humanities course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
PSCI 1001 Introduction to Political Science: The Quest for Freedom and Justice
Summer 2024 Online 6/27-7/30
- Curious about power, legitimacy, authority, socialization and revolution? PSCI 1001 introduces the study of politics, its human importance, and its relationship to social institutions. This course will analyze the relationship between individual political behavior and characteristics of the political system.
- PSCI 1001 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course -or- used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Required for PSCI majors and open to all students. No prereqs.
PSCI 3347 Film and Politics
Summer 2024 Online 6/27-7/30
- Whether you watch a hard-hitting documentary or the latest Marvel movie, Citizen Kane or Star Wars, your favorite films are packed with political messages! In PSCI 3347: Film and Politics, students will learn how to critically evaluate films—both classic and contemporary—as an inherently political medium. Whether designed as propaganda or entertainment, films shape and reflect critical issues of our political and social culture in ways that might surprise you!
- PSCI 3347 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
SOCY 3010 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, for Sophomore, Junior and Senior students, explores the history of sexuality, cross-cultural studies and primate modeling. Increases the understanding of differences in views of sexuality, specifically the link between sex and reproduction and its role as the motivation for gender roles and sex acts.
- SOCY 3010 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Open to students with 30 earned hours or more.
SOCY 3720 Global Perspectives on Social Issues
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, for students who have earned 30 hours or more, discusses how various cultural and social frameworks are used in a sociological examination and international comparison of select social issues, such as globalization, terrorism, inequality and discrimination. Analysis of selected issues across cultures explores how societal and cultural characteristics shape these issues.
- SOCY 3720 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Open to students with 30 earned hours or more.
A student may take up to one Maymester course. Students enrolled for more than one Maymester class will be administratively dropped from the second class. Maymester credit hours are part of your Summer courseload.
ANTH 4090 Psychedelic Anthropology
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, open to Juniors and Seniors, studies psychotropic drugs, both legal and illicit, examining their use and meaning within cultures of health and wellness, and the plant medicine, spiritual, social, political and economic issues that surround their production, use and misuse. Course activities focus on ethnographic research strategies and arts-based approaches to public scholarship.
- ANTH 4090 can be used as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: 60 or more hours earned.
SOCY 3010 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, for Sophomore, Junior and Senior students, explores the history of sexuality, cross-cultural studies and primate modeling. Increases the understanding of differences in views of sexuality, specifically the link between sex and reproduction and its role as the motivation for gender roles and sex acts.
- SOCY 3010 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Open to students with 30 earned hours or more.
SOCY 3720 Global Perspectives on Social Issues
Summer 2024 Online Maymester course
- This course, for students who have earned 30 hours or more, discusses how various cultural and social frameworks are used in a sociological examination and international comparison of select social issues, such as globalization, terrorism, inequality and discrimination. Analysis of selected issues across cultures explores how societal and cultural characteristics shape these issues.
- SOCY 3720 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Open to students with 30 earned hours or more.
Fall 2024
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- Be aware of Academic Dates and Deadlines.
- Prepare to register: Review your degree audit, discuss your degree plan with your major advisors, and create your class schedule by filling your shopping cart.
- See ADVISING STEPS and HOW TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES and enroll when you can.
- As a CLAS BA or BS degree-seeking student, you need to work with your major and minor faculty advisors to plan out major coursework.
- Review your CORE and CLAS Requirements with your assigned CLAS Academic Advisor.
- Contact CLAS Advising, CLAS.Advising@UCDenver.edu, 303-315-7100, with questions.
- If you are completing your degree requirements in Fall, apply for graduation in UCDAccess by Wed Sept 4 application deadline: In UCDAccess, find your "Student Center,” select “Academics," then select "Apply for graduation."
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CHEM 1474 Core Chemistry: Chemistry for Everyday
Fall 2024 Online
- This online course-with-lab focuses on the common household chemicals that affect us on a daily basis. Students explore current topics in chemistry and the underlying chemistry of nuclear power, plastics, sunscreens, food, acid rain, etc. Home-based laboratory experiments with safe, common substances.
- CHEM 1474 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Students may not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
ENGL 3070 Studies in Film History
Topic: Cold War Cinema
Fall 2024 In-Person
- This one-night-a-week course, open to sophomores and higher, examines the history of Cold War cinema.
- ENGL 3070 can be used as a CLAS Humanities course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: 30 or more hours earned.
CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Fall 2024 offered In-Person or Online
- This is a course intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field. The course is designed for students who have never had a chemistry course or who have not taken general chemistry in 5+ years. Topics include the classification of matter, the Metric system, dimensional analysis, atomic theory and the structure of atoms, periodic relationships, energy and temperature, gas laws and the kinetic molecular theory, compounds and nomenclature of inorganic compounds, the mole, stoichiometry, types of chemical reactions, balancing equations, electron configurations, and chemical bonding. Enrollment in this course is strongly encouraged prior to enrollment in Chem 2031 if the student does not have a strong and recent background in general chemistry. Note: College Algebra or the equivalent is strongly recommended for optimal student success. Students may not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061.
- CHEM 1000 can be used as your as your CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences requirement if you have 2 courses-with-labs in CORE Natural & Physical Sciences -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CHEM 1474 Core Chemistry: Chemistry for Everyday
Fall 2024 Online
- This online course-with-lab focuses on the common household chemicals that affect us on a daily basis. Students explore current topics in chemistry and the underlying chemistry of nuclear power, plastics, sunscreens, food, acid rain, etc. Home-based laboratory experiments with safe, common substances.
- CHEM 1474 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Students may not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
ENVS 1044 & ENVS 1045 Introduction to Environmental Sciences + Lab
Class and Lab must be same modality: both Online _or_ both In-Person
Fall 2024 Offered Online and In-Person
- Climate change. Acid rain. Water pollution. Extinction. You undoubtably know the long list of challenges facing the Earth's environmental systems, but do you truly know how these issues develop? What about the (sometimes hidden) part you play in their creation or the simple actions that you can take to solve them? From start to finish, ENVS 1044 and 1045 are focused on making you a more informed and engaged citizen on topics that will define the next century. Through lecture, discussion, classroom activities, and the ENVS 1045 laboratory, this course will explore topics in a wide survey of environmental science areas including sustainability, agriculture, waste management, energy, climate, atmosphere, water, and wildlife. Within a community of your peers, we will focus on not just defining the problems, but also developing straightforward and achievable actions that will enable you to become part of the solution.
- ENVS 1044+1045 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- used as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Fall 2024 Online or Hybrid/In-Person
- Are you interested in how our planet functions? How the weather shapes the land and how the land influences the weather? How the planet’s land masses formed, moved, were destroyed, and reformed? Then GEOG 1202 is for you! Topics include the fundamental features of day-to-day weather and global climate change; as well as how the continents were created (volcanoes, mountain-building, faulting), drifted (plate tectonics) and were eroded (by rain, rivers, ice, wind and waves) and ultimately recycled (subduction of continental plates into oceanic trenches). This course is a MUST for anyone interested in an introduction to the earth sciences.
- GEOG 1202 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
GEOG 1302 Introduction to Human Geography
Fall 2024 In-Person
- Do you seek critical perspectives on the difficult and complex problems that effect human well-being and environmental conditions in the world today? Human geography is a social science devoted to understanding the relationship between human societies and the Earth. It has two core areas of study. The first focuses on the interaction of people with nature, including the extraction of natural resources, the environmental impact of people and their activities, and the effects of natural forces on society. The second focuses on the spatial organization of societies and the construction of places, landscapes, and regions through human action and creativity. This course conducts a broad introduction to the main sub-fields within the discipline, including: population and migration; resource use and sustainability; culture and human landscapes; industrialization and uneven economic development; the political organization/reorganization of space; agriculture, rural livelihoods and food production; urbanization and urban life.
- GEOG 1302 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
HIST 1362 U.S. History Since 1876
Fall 2024 In-Person
- What does it mean to be an American? How has that meaning changed over the past century and a half? What does it mean to reform society and how have different groups pursued this change? How did we end up where we are today? These are just some of the questions at the heart of HIST 1362, which provides an overview of U.S. history from the 1870s to the present.
- HIST 1362 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- used as a CLAS Humanities course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CLAS BA & BS students must earn at least 45 hours in courses taken as upper-division (CU Denver upper-division courses are numbered 3000-or-higher).
ANTH 4300 Immigrant Health
Fall 2024 In-Person
- Open to Juniors and Seniors, this course examines health issues associated with transnational migration from an anthropological point of view. It provides students the opportunity to engage in hands-on fieldwork projects designed in conjunction with local immigrant and refugee-serving agencies.
- ANTH 4300 can be used as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereqs: 60 or more hours earned.
ENGL 3070 Studies in Film History
Topic: Cold War Cinema
Fall 2024 In-Person
- This one-night-a-week course, open to sophomores and higher, examines the history of Cold War cinema.
- ENGL 3070 can be used as a CLAS Humanities course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: 30 or more hours earned.
ENGL 3200 From Literature to Film
Fall 2024 In-Person
- Open to sophomores and higher, ENGL 3200 explores the relationship between literature and cinema; the process of adapting and transforming a novel into a feature-length film; and the historical, cultural, and commercial influences that shaped the creation of each novel and film studied.
- ENGL 3200 can be used as a CLAS Humanities course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: 30 or more hours earned.
GEOG 3130 Central America and the Caribbean
Fall 2024 Online
- This course, open to all students, surveys the physical environment and cultural development of Central America and the Caribbean Islands.
- GEOG 3130 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
HIST 1362 U.S. History Since 1876
Fall 2024 In-Person
- What does it mean to be an American? How has that meaning changed over the past century and a half? What does it mean to reform society and how have different groups pursued this change? How did we end up where we are today? These are just some of the questions at the heart of HIST 1362, which provides an overview of U.S. history from the 1870s to the present.
- HIST 1362 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- used as a CLAS Humanities course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CHEM 1474 Core Chemistry: Chemistry for Everyday
Fall 2024 Online
- This online course-with-lab focuses on the common household chemicals that affect us on a daily basis. Students explore current topics in chemistry and the underlying chemistry of nuclear power, plastics, sunscreens, food, acid rain, etc. Home-based laboratory experiments with safe, common substances.
- CHEM 1474 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Students may not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Fall 2024 Online or Hybrid/In-Person
- Are you interested in how our planet functions? How the weather shapes the land and how the land influences the weather? How the planet’s land masses formed, moved, were destroyed, and reformed? Then GEOG 1202 is for you! Topics include the fundamental features of day-to-day weather and global climate change; as well as how the continents were created (volcanoes, mountain-building, faulting), drifted (plate tectonics) and were eroded (by rain, rivers, ice, wind and waves) and ultimately recycled (subduction of continental plates into oceanic trenches). This course is a MUST for anyone interested in an introduction to the earth sciences.
- GEOG 1202 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
GEOG 1302 Introduction to Human Geography
Fall 2024 In-Person
- Do you seek critical perspectives on the difficult and complex problems that effect human well-being and environmental conditions in the world today? Human geography is a social science devoted to understanding the relationship between human societies and the Earth. It has two core areas of study. The first focuses on the interaction of people with nature, including the extraction of natural resources, the environmental impact of people and their activities, and the effects of natural forces on society. The second focuses on the spatial organization of societies and the construction of places, landscapes, and regions through human action and creativity. This course conducts a broad introduction to the main sub-fields within the discipline, including: population and migration; resource use and sustainability; culture and human landscapes; industrialization and uneven economic development; the political organization/reorganization of space; agriculture, rural livelihoods and food production; urbanization and urban life.
- GEOG 1302 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CLAS Behavioral Sciences Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ANTH, COMM or PSYC prefix.
ANTH 4300 Immigrant Health
Fall 2024 In-Person
- Open to Juniors and Seniors, this course examines health issues associated with transnational migration from an anthropological point of view. It provides students the opportunity to engage in hands-on fieldwork projects designed in conjunction with local immigrant and refugee-serving agencies.
- ANTH 4300 can be used as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereqs: 60 or more hours earned.
CLAS Humanities Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ENGL, HIST, HEHM, HUMN, PHIL, or RLST prefix or a SPAN, FREN, GRMN, CHIN culture or literature course. Students may not use a language acquisition course or a lower-division English Composition course such as ENGL1010 to satisfy this requirement.
ENGL 3070 Studies in Film History
Topic: Cold War Cinema
Fall 2024 In-Person
- This one-night-a-week course, open to sophomores and higher, examines the history of Cold War cinema.
- ENGL 3070 can be used as a CLAS Humanities course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: 30 or more hours earned.
ENGL 3200 From Literature to Film
Fall 2024 In-Person
- Open to sophomores and higher, ENGL 3200 explores the relationship between literature and cinema; the process of adapting and transforming a novel into a feature-length film; and the historical, cultural, and commercial influences that shaped the creation of each novel and film studied.
- ENGL 3200 can be used as a CLAS Humanities course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: 30 or more hours earned.
HIST 1362 U.S. History Since 1876
Fall 2024 In-Person
- What does it mean to be an American? How has that meaning changed over the past century and a half? What does it mean to reform society and how have different groups pursued this change? How did we end up where we are today? These are just some of the questions at the heart of HIST 1362, which provides an overview of U.S. history from the 1870s to the present.
- HIST 1362 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- used as a CLAS Humanities course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with a BIOL, CHEM, GEOL, PHYS, or MATH prefix, or ANTH 1303, ENVS 1044+1045, GEOG 1202, PSYC 2220. If you have only one science course-with-lab for the CU Denver Core Curriculum, this course MUST have an associated lab.
CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Fall 2024 offered In-Person or Online
- This is a course intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field. The course is designed for students who have never had a chemistry course or who have not taken general chemistry in 5+ years. Topics include the classification of matter, the Metric system, dimensional analysis, atomic theory and the structure of atoms, periodic relationships, energy and temperature, gas laws and the kinetic molecular theory, compounds and nomenclature of inorganic compounds, the mole, stoichiometry, types of chemical reactions, balancing equations, electron configurations, and chemical bonding. Enrollment in this course is strongly encouraged prior to enrollment in Chem 2031 if the student does not have a strong and recent background in general chemistry. Note: College Algebra or the equivalent is strongly recommended for optimal student success. Students may not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061.
- CHEM 1000 can be used as your as your CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences requirement if you have 2 courses-with-labs in CORE Natural & Physical Sciences -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CHEM 1474 Core Chemistry: Chemistry for Everyday
Fall 2024 Online
- This online course-with-lab focuses on the common household chemicals that affect us on a daily basis. Students explore current topics in chemistry and the underlying chemistry of nuclear power, plastics, sunscreens, food, acid rain, etc. Home-based laboratory experiments with safe, common substances.
- CHEM 1474 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Students may not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
ENVS 1044 & ENVS 1045 Introduction to Environmental Sciences + Lab
Class and Lab must be same modality: both Online _or_ both In-Person
Fall 2024 Offered Online and In-Person
- Climate change. Acid rain. Water pollution. Extinction. You undoubtably know the long list of challenges facing the Earth's environmental systems, but do you truly know how these issues develop? What about the (sometimes hidden) part you play in their creation or the simple actions that you can take to solve them? From start to finish, ENVS 1044 and 1045 are focused on making you a more informed and engaged citizen on topics that will define the next century. Through lecture, discussion, classroom activities, and the ENVS 1045 laboratory, this course will explore topics in a wide survey of environmental science areas including sustainability, agriculture, waste management, energy, climate, atmosphere, water, and wildlife. Within a community of your peers, we will focus on not just defining the problems, but also developing straightforward and achievable actions that will enable you to become part of the solution.
- ENVS 1044+1045 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- used as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Fall 2024 Online or Hybrid/In-Person
- Are you interested in how our planet functions? How the weather shapes the land and how the land influences the weather? How the planet’s land masses formed, moved, were destroyed, and reformed? Then GEOG 1202 is for you! Topics include the fundamental features of day-to-day weather and global climate change; as well as how the continents were created (volcanoes, mountain-building, faulting), drifted (plate tectonics) and were eroded (by rain, rivers, ice, wind and waves) and ultimately recycled (subduction of continental plates into oceanic trenches). This course is a MUST for anyone interested in an introduction to the earth sciences.
- GEOG 1202 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CLAS Social Sciences Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ECON, ETST, GEOG, PBHL, PSCI, or SOCY prefix or ENVS1342, RLST3800 or SJUS2000.
GEOG 1302 Introduction to Human Geography
Fall 2024 In-Person
- Do you seek critical perspectives on the difficult and complex problems that effect human well-being and environmental conditions in the world today? Human geography is a social science devoted to understanding the relationship between human societies and the Earth. It has two core areas of study. The first focuses on the interaction of people with nature, including the extraction of natural resources, the environmental impact of people and their activities, and the effects of natural forces on society. The second focuses on the spatial organization of societies and the construction of places, landscapes, and regions through human action and creativity. This course conducts a broad introduction to the main sub-fields within the discipline, including: population and migration; resource use and sustainability; culture and human landscapes; industrialization and uneven economic development; the political organization/reorganization of space; agriculture, rural livelihoods and food production; urbanization and urban life.
- GEOG 1302 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
GEOG 3130 Central America and the Caribbean
Fall 2024 Online
- This course, open to all students, surveys the physical environment and cultural development of Central America and the Caribbean Islands.
- GEOG 3130 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
Online courses are taught asynchronously through Canvas at https://ucdenver.instructure.com.
CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Fall 2024 offered In-Person or Online
- This is a course intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field. The course is designed for students who have never had a chemistry course or who have not taken general chemistry in 5+ years. Topics include the classification of matter, the Metric system, dimensional analysis, atomic theory and the structure of atoms, periodic relationships, energy and temperature, gas laws and the kinetic molecular theory, compounds and nomenclature of inorganic compounds, the mole, stoichiometry, types of chemical reactions, balancing equations, electron configurations, and chemical bonding. Enrollment in this course is strongly encouraged prior to enrollment in Chem 2031 if the student does not have a strong and recent background in general chemistry. Note: College Algebra or the equivalent is strongly recommended for optimal student success. Students may not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061.
- CHEM 1000 can be used as your as your CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences requirement if you have 2 courses-with-labs in CORE Natural & Physical Sciences -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
CHEM 1474 Core Chemistry: Chemistry for Everyday
Fall 2024 Online
- This online course-with-lab focuses on the common household chemicals that affect us on a daily basis. Students explore current topics in chemistry and the underlying chemistry of nuclear power, plastics, sunscreens, food, acid rain, etc. Home-based laboratory experiments with safe, common substances.
- CHEM 1474 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Students may not receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for CHEM 2031 and CHEM 2061. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
ENVS 1044 & ENVS 1045 Introduction to Environmental Sciences + Lab
Class and Lab must be same modality: both Online _or_ both In-Person
Fall 2024 Offered Online and In-Person
- Climate change. Acid rain. Water pollution. Extinction. You undoubtably know the long list of challenges facing the Earth's environmental systems, but do you truly know how these issues develop? What about the (sometimes hidden) part you play in their creation or the simple actions that you can take to solve them? From start to finish, ENVS 1044 and 1045 are focused on making you a more informed and engaged citizen on topics that will define the next century. Through lecture, discussion, classroom activities, and the ENVS 1045 laboratory, this course will explore topics in a wide survey of environmental science areas including sustainability, agriculture, waste management, energy, climate, atmosphere, water, and wildlife. Within a community of your peers, we will focus on not just defining the problems, but also developing straightforward and achievable actions that will enable you to become part of the solution.
- ENVS 1044+1045 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab -or- used as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Fall 2024 Online or Hybrid/In-Person
- Are you interested in how our planet functions? How the weather shapes the land and how the land influences the weather? How the planet’s land masses formed, moved, were destroyed, and reformed? Then GEOG 1202 is for you! Topics include the fundamental features of day-to-day weather and global climate change; as well as how the continents were created (volcanoes, mountain-building, faulting), drifted (plate tectonics) and were eroded (by rain, rivers, ice, wind and waves) and ultimately recycled (subduction of continental plates into oceanic trenches). This course is a MUST for anyone interested in an introduction to the earth sciences.
- GEOG 1202 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab -or- as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab -or- used as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No prereqs.
GEOG 3130 Central America and the Caribbean
Fall 2024 Online
- This course, open to all students, surveys the physical environment and cultural development of Central America and the Caribbean Islands.
- GEOG 3130 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
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