Course Highlights

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Summer 2025

Summer 2025 Registration/Add/Drop continues through May - see Summer Calendar.

Plan for Summer 2025: Review your degree audit, clear any registration holds, discuss your degree plan with your major advisors, and create your class schedule by filling your shopping cart and finish enrolling.
- See ADVISING STEPS and HOW TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES and enroll as soon as you can.
- NOW: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- NOW: You need to create your Summer schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- Clear any registration holds before enrolling.
- ENROLL: Finish enrolling in Summer classes as soon as you can – see How to Register for Classes.
- 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 Requirements and CLAS Requirements with your assigned CLAS Academic Advisor.
Contact CLAS Advising, CLAS.Advising@UCDenver.edu, 303-315-7100, with questions.
Graduating? If you are completing your degree requirements in Summer 2025, you must apply for graduation in UCDAccess before Summer begins:
- HOW TO APPLY FOR GRADUATION: In UCDAccess, find your "Student Center,” select “Academics," then select "Apply for graduation." --- Apply before June 17 deadline.
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PBHL 3500 Climate Justice
Summer 2025 Online

Open to all students, this course introduces you to the many facets of climate change and climate justice, including ethical, epistemic, and community implications, root causes, and how to advance solutions.
PBHL 3500 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.

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2025 Maymester Online

Open to students with 30 or more hours earned, SOCY 3010 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. Explores the history of sexuality, cross-cultural studies and primate modeling.
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: Sophomore status or higher.

CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Summer 2025 Online

This is a course-without-lab intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field as preparation for General Chemistry. 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.
CHEM 1000 can be used as as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _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.

ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 2025 Online or In-Person

Open to everyone, ANTH 1303 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. Includes class time and lab time each week. See Flyer.
ANTH 1303 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Science course-with-lab _or_ as a CLAS Natural & Physical Science 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.

ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science
with required lab ENVS 1045
Summer 2025 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 is 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 required ENVS 1045 hands-on laboratory complement 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 and ENVS 1045 together 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.

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Summer 2025 Online

Students in this completely online Summer 2025 course read, discuss, and write short fiction and poetry in a workshop setting.
ENGL 2156 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Humanities 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 but it is expected that you have completed ENGL 1020.

ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

Topics include price determination in a market system composed of households and firms: resource allocation and efficiency of various market structures, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Note: Complementary to ECON 2012. ECON 2012 is not a prerequisite for ECON 2022.
ECON 2022 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Summer 2025 Online

This is a course-without-lab intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field as preparation for General Chemistry. 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.
CHEM 1000 can be used as as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _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.

ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

Covers topics of inflation, unemployment, national income, growth and problems of the national economy, stabilization policy, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Purpose is to teach fundamental principles, to open the field of economics in the way most helpful to further a more detailed study of special problems, and to give those not intending to specialize in the subject an outline of the general principles of economics.
ECON 2012 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

BIOL 1135 Human Biology
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory
Summer 2025 Online

BIOL 1135 Human Biology (3-hour class), a course for students in non-science majors, covers topics such as basic human body chemistry, healthy internal body balance, new disease treatments, human inheritance and human beings as part of Earth's living systems. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1135 for students who have credit in BIOL 2010(2061), BIOL 2020(2051) or BIOL 1560.
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory (optional 1-hour lab can be taken with BIOL 1135 in same term or later term) will investigate the function of the human body while emphasizing the use of the scientific method. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1137 for students who have credit in 2011(2081), BIOL 2021(2071) or BIOL 1560.
BIOL 1135 and BIOL 1137 together can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. If you do not need a second lab science, you can take BIOL 1135 by itself as a course-without-lab for CORE or CLAS or 3 hours elective credit. No Prereqs for BIOL 1135 class. 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).

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Summer 2025 Online

Open to Juniors and Seniors, this course offers students opportunities to examine and compose texts where language is integrated with other media, such as video, still images, music, etc. Includes basic instruction in digital multimedia composition and design tools.
ENGL 3084 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Communicative Skills course _or_ 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: 60 hours earned.

ANTH 4090-M01 Psychedelic Anthropology
Summer 2025 Maymester In-Person

Psychotropic drugs, both legal and illicit, are a predominant part of our everyday lives. Psychedelic Anthropology examines 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: Junior or Senior status.

PBHL 3500 Climate Justice
Summer 2025 Online

Open to all students, this course introduces you to the many facets of climate change and climate justice, including ethical, epistemic, and community implications, root causes, and how to advance solutions.
PBHL 3500 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.

PSCI 4014 Media and Politics
Summer 2025 Online First Four Weeks
Course runs 6/9-7/5

This 4-week course explores the impact of the news media on the American political system, including public policy and citizen participation, and addresses trends in news coverage and media ownership, and their impact on public opinion.
PSCI 4014 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.

ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
Summer 2025 Online

An in-depth analysis of the phenomena of culture and application of the culture concept to understanding cultural diversity in the modern world. Applies the concept of culture to several basic aspects of human social life, for example: social class and gender relations, ethnicity, racism and sexism, education, health and economic behavior. Students explore these issues in the context of case studies of particular groups and/or communities, focusing primarily on the diversity of cultural expression in contemporary U.S. See Flyer.
ANTH 3142 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ 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. No Prereqs.

PSCI 3347 Film and Politics
Summer 2025 Online Second Four Weeks
Course runs 7/7-8/2

This 4-week course (July 7 - August 2) presents historical and contemporary films to introduce students to critical evaluation of film as a political medium. Whether designed as propaganda or entertainment, films shape and reflect critical issues in our political and social culture.
PSCI 3347 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.

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2025 Maymester Online

Open to students with 30 or more hours earned, SOCY 3010 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. Explores the history of sexuality, cross-cultural studies and primate modeling.
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: Sophomore status or higher.

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Summer 2025 Online

Open to Juniors and Seniors, this course offers students opportunities to examine and compose texts where language is integrated with other media, such as video, still images, music, etc. Includes basic instruction in digital multimedia composition and design tools.
ENGL 3084 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Communicative Skills course _or_ 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: 60 hours earned.

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Summer 2025 Online

Students in this completely online Summer 2025 course read, discuss, and write short fiction and poetry in a workshop setting.
ENGL 2156 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Humanities 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 but it is expected that you have completed ENGL 1020.

ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
Summer 2025 Online

An in-depth analysis of the phenomena of culture and application of the culture concept to understanding cultural diversity in the modern world. Applies the concept of culture to several basic aspects of human social life, for example: social class and gender relations, ethnicity, racism and sexism, education, health and economic behavior. Students explore these issues in the context of case studies of particular groups and/or communities, focusing primarily on the diversity of cultural expression in contemporary U.S. See Flyer.
ANTH 3142 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ 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. No Prereqs.

ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 2025 Online or In-Person

Open to everyone, ANTH 1303 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. Includes class time and lab time each week. See Flyer.
ANTH 1303 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Science course-with-lab _or_ as a CLAS Natural & Physical Science 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.

BIOL 1135 Human Biology
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory
Summer 2025 Online

BIOL 1135 Human Biology (3-hour class), a course for students in non-science majors, covers topics such as basic human body chemistry, healthy internal body balance, new disease treatments, human inheritance and human beings as part of Earth's living systems. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1135 for students who have credit in BIOL 2010(2061), BIOL 2020(2051) or BIOL 1560.
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory (optional 1-hour lab can be taken with BIOL 1135 in same term or later term) will investigate the function of the human body while emphasizing the use of the scientific method. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1137 for students who have credit in 2011(2081), BIOL 2021(2071) or BIOL 1560.
BIOL 1135 and BIOL 1137 together can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. If you do not need a second lab science, you can take BIOL 1135 by itself as a course-without-lab for CORE or CLAS or 3 hours elective credit. No Prereqs for BIOL 1135 class. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.

ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science
with required lab ENVS 1045
Summer 2025 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 is 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 required ENVS 1045 hands-on laboratory complement 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 and ENVS 1045 together 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.

ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

Topics include price determination in a market system composed of households and firms: resource allocation and efficiency of various market structures, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Note: Complementary to ECON 2012. ECON 2012 is not a prerequisite for ECON 2022.
ECON 2022 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

Covers topics of inflation, unemployment, national income, growth and problems of the national economy, stabilization policy, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Purpose is to teach fundamental principles, to open the field of economics in the way most helpful to further a more detailed study of special problems, and to give those not intending to specialize in the subject an outline of the general principles of economics.
ECON 2012 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ANTH, COMM, or PSYC prefix.

ANTH 4090-M01 Psychedelic Anthropology
Summer 2025 Maymester In-Person

Psychotropic drugs, both legal and illicit, are a predominant part of our everyday lives. Psychedelic Anthropology examines 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: Junior or Senior status.

ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
Summer 2025 Online

An in-depth analysis of the phenomena of culture and application of the culture concept to understanding cultural diversity in the modern world. Applies the concept of culture to several basic aspects of human social life, for example: social class and gender relations, ethnicity, racism and sexism, education, health and economic behavior. Students explore these issues in the context of case studies of particular groups and/or communities, focusing primarily on the diversity of cultural expression in contemporary U.S. See Flyer.
ANTH 3142 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ 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. 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.

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Summer 2025 Online

Open to Juniors and Seniors, this course offers students opportunities to examine and compose texts where language is integrated with other media, such as video, still images, music, etc. Includes basic instruction in digital multimedia composition and design tools.
ENGL 3084 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Communicative Skills course _or_ 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: 60 hours earned.

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 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Summer 2025 Online

Open to Juniors and Seniors, this course offers students opportunities to examine and compose texts where language is integrated with other media, such as video, still images, music, etc. Includes basic instruction in digital multimedia composition and design tools.
ENGL 3084 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Communicative Skills course _or_ 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: 60 hours earned.

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Summer 2025 Online

Students in this completely online Summer 2025 course read, discuss, and write short fiction and poetry in a workshop setting.
ENGL 2156 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Humanities 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 but it is expected that you have completed ENGL 1020.

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.

BIOL 1135 Human Biology
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory
Summer 2025 Online

BIOL 1135 Human Biology (3-hour class), a course for students in non-science majors, covers topics such as basic human body chemistry, healthy internal body balance, new disease treatments, human inheritance and human beings as part of Earth's living systems. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1135 for students who have credit in BIOL 2010(2061), BIOL 2020(2051) or BIOL 1560.
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory (optional 1-hour lab can be taken with BIOL 1135 in same term or later term) will investigate the function of the human body while emphasizing the use of the scientific method. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1137 for students who have credit in 2011(2081), BIOL 2021(2071) or BIOL 1560.
BIOL 1135 and BIOL 1137 together can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. If you do not need a second lab science, you can take BIOL 1135 by itself as a course-without-lab for CORE or CLAS or 3 hours elective credit. No Prereqs for BIOL 1135 class. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.

CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Summer 2025 Online

This is a course-without-lab intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field as preparation for General Chemistry. 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.
CHEM 1000 can be used as as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _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.

ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 2025 Online or In-Person

Open to everyone, ANTH 1303 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. Includes class time and lab time each week. See Flyer.
ANTH 1303 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Science course-with-lab _or_ as a CLAS Natural & Physical Science 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.

ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science
with required lab ENVS 1045
Summer 2025 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 is 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 required ENVS 1045 hands-on laboratory complement 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 and ENVS 1045 together 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.

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.

PBHL 3500 Climate Justice
Summer 2025 Online

Open to all students, this course introduces you to the many facets of climate change and climate justice, including ethical, epistemic, and community implications, root causes, and how to advance solutions.
PBHL 3500 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.

PSCI 4014 Media and Politics
Summer 2025 Online First Four Weeks
Course runs 6/9-7/5

This 4-week course explores the impact of the news media on the American political system, including public policy and citizen participation, and addresses trends in news coverage and media ownership, and their impact on public opinion.
PSCI 4014 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.

ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

Covers topics of inflation, unemployment, national income, growth and problems of the national economy, stabilization policy, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Purpose is to teach fundamental principles, to open the field of economics in the way most helpful to further a more detailed study of special problems, and to give those not intending to specialize in the subject an outline of the general principles of economics.
ECON 2012 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2025 Maymester Online

Open to students with 30 or more hours earned, SOCY 3010 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. Explores the history of sexuality, cross-cultural studies and primate modeling.
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: Sophomore status or higher.

PSCI 3347 Film and Politics
Summer 2025 Online Second Four Weeks
Course runs 7/7-8/2

This 4-week course (July 7 - August 2) presents historical and contemporary films to introduce students to critical evaluation of film as a political medium. Whether designed as propaganda or entertainment, films shape and reflect critical issues in our political and social culture.
PSCI 3347 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.

ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

Topics include price determination in a market system composed of households and firms: resource allocation and efficiency of various market structures, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Note: Complementary to ECON 2012. ECON 2012 is not a prerequisite for ECON 2022.
ECON 2022 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

CU Denver Online courses are accessed through Canvas at http://ucdenver.instructure.com.

ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
Summer 2025 Online

An in-depth analysis of the phenomena of culture and application of the culture concept to understanding cultural diversity in the modern world. Applies the concept of culture to several basic aspects of human social life, for example: social class and gender relations, ethnicity, racism and sexism, education, health and economic behavior. Students explore these issues in the context of case studies of particular groups and/or communities, focusing primarily on the diversity of cultural expression in contemporary U.S. See Flyer.
ANTH 3142 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ 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. No Prereqs.

PSCI 4014 Media and Politics
Summer 2025 Online First Four Weeks
Course runs 6/9-7/5

This 4-week course explores the impact of the news media on the American political system, including public policy and citizen participation, and addresses trends in news coverage and media ownership, and their impact on public opinion.
PSCI 4014 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.

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Summer 2025 Online

Open to Juniors and Seniors, this course offers students opportunities to examine and compose texts where language is integrated with other media, such as video, still images, music, etc. Includes basic instruction in digital multimedia composition and design tools.
ENGL 3084 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Communicative Skills course _or_ 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: 60 hours earned.

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2025 Maymester Online

Open to students with 30 or more hours earned, SOCY 3010 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. Explores the history of sexuality, cross-cultural studies and primate modeling.
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: Sophomore status or higher.

BIOL 1135 Human Biology
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory
Summer 2025 Online

BIOL 1135 Human Biology (3-hour class), a course for students in non-science majors, covers topics such as basic human body chemistry, healthy internal body balance, new disease treatments, human inheritance and human beings as part of Earth's living systems. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1135 for students who have credit in BIOL 2010(2061), BIOL 2020(2051) or BIOL 1560.
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory (optional 1-hour lab can be taken with BIOL 1135 in same term or later term) will investigate the function of the human body while emphasizing the use of the scientific method. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1137 for students who have credit in 2011(2081), BIOL 2021(2071) or BIOL 1560.
BIOL 1135 and BIOL 1137 together can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. If you do not need a second lab science, you can take BIOL 1135 by itself as a course-without-lab for CORE or CLAS or 3 hours elective credit. No Prereqs for BIOL 1135 class. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.

PBHL 3500 Climate Justice
Summer 2025 Online

Open to all students, this course introduces you to the many facets of climate change and climate justice, including ethical, epistemic, and community implications, root causes, and how to advance solutions.
PBHL 3500 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.

ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 2025 Online or In-Person

Open to everyone, ANTH 1303 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. Includes class time and lab time each week. See Flyer.
ANTH 1303 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Science course-with-lab _or_ as a CLAS Natural & Physical Science 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.

ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

Covers topics of inflation, unemployment, national income, growth and problems of the national economy, stabilization policy, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Purpose is to teach fundamental principles, to open the field of economics in the way most helpful to further a more detailed study of special problems, and to give those not intending to specialize in the subject an outline of the general principles of economics.
ECON 2012 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

Topics include price determination in a market system composed of households and firms: resource allocation and efficiency of various market structures, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Note: Complementary to ECON 2012. ECON 2012 is not a prerequisite for ECON 2022.
ECON 2022 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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 Introduction to Environmental Science
with required lab ENVS 1045
Summer 2025 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 is 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 required ENVS 1045 hands-on laboratory complement 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 and ENVS 1045 together 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 2025 Online

This is a course-without-lab intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field as preparation for General Chemistry. 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.
CHEM 1000 can be used as as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _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.

PSCI 3347 Film and Politics
Summer 2025 Online Second Four Weeks
Course runs 7/7-8/2

This 4-week course (July 7 - August 2) presents historical and contemporary films to introduce students to critical evaluation of film as a political medium. Whether designed as propaganda or entertainment, films shape and reflect critical issues in our political and social culture.
PSCI 3347 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.

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Summer 2025 Online

Students in this completely online Summer 2025 course read, discuss, and write short fiction and poetry in a workshop setting.
ENGL 2156 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Humanities 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 but it is expected that you have completed ENGL 1020.

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-M01 Psychedelic Anthropology
Summer 2025 Maymester In-Person

Psychotropic drugs, both legal and illicit, are a predominant part of our everyday lives. Psychedelic Anthropology examines 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: Junior or Senior status.

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2025 Maymester Online

Open to students with 30 or more hours earned, SOCY 3010 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. Explores the history of sexuality, cross-cultural studies and primate modeling.
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: Sophomore status or higher.

Fall 2025

Fall 2025 Registration and Add/Drop runs through classes beginning in August - see Fall Calendar.

Plan for Fall 2025: Review your degree audit, clear any registration holds, discuss your degree plan with your major advisors, and create your class schedule by filling your shopping cart and finish enrolling.
- See ADVISING STEPS and HOW TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES and enroll as soon as you can.
- NOW: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- NOW: You need to create your Fall schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess and enroll as soon as possible.
- Clear any registration holds so you can enroll.
- Finish enrolling in Fall classes to get your seats in your chosen classes – see How to Register for Classes.
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 Requirements and CLAS Requirements with your assigned CLAS Academic Advisor.
Contact CLAS Advising, CLAS.Advising@UCDenver.edu, 303-315-7100, with questions.
GRADUATING? If you are completing your degree requirements in Fall 2025, you must apply for graduation in UCDAccess before Fall Census:
- HOW TO APPLY FOR GRADUATION: In UCDAccess, find your "Student Center,” select “Academics," then select "Apply for graduation." --- Apply before Sept 3 deadline.
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ANTH 3666 Anthropology of Death
Fall 2025 Online

In this new CORE Cultural Diversity course students will identify and understand the range of human expression through the treatment of human remains in anthropological literature with focus on burials, mortuary practices, and associated rituals. Along with more theoretical papers, specific case studies will be used to address a variety of topics and issues, such as historic and prehistoric social organization, bio-archaeology, cannibalism, human sacrifice, mummification, the ethics of studying human remains, and the treatment of pets in prehistory. The time range that we will cover in the course will span from the Neolithic to the early 20th century, and numerous cultures from all parts of the globe will be our subject matter. See Flyer.
ANTH 3666 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ 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. No Prereqs.

GEOG 1302 Introduction to Human Geography
Fall 2025 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- 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.

COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

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- 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.

GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Fall 2025 Online or Hybrid

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- 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.

ENGL 1601 Storytelling: Literature, Film, and Television
Fall 2025 Online -or- In-Person

This course asks students to explore how stories determine who we are. Everything people do fits into a narrative pattern, evident everywhere from TV news to memory to daily schedules. We tell ourselves stories about ourselves and others--how do these stories shape who we are as cultural beings?
ENGL 1601 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities 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 but this course assumes that students have completed or are taking ENGL 1020.

GEOG 2080 The Power of Maps: Introduction to Geospatial Sciences
Fall 2025 In-Person

A map can be thought of “macroscope” that enables readers to visualize, explore, and analyze patterns that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye. As microscopes enabled vast advances in biology by enabling people to see entities that were otherwise impossible to see—cells, bacteria, viruses, and the like—so have maps enabled advances in geography and other fields by enabling us to view patterns across vast areas of the earth, equally impossible to “see” with the naked eye. The importance of data and information in our society has infused mapping with more power than ever before, engendering the field of cartography with a great deal of salience, both as a professional skill and as force that affects society and policy. In this course, students learn about the basic principles of mapping and learn about key pathways into the field, including geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, spatial analysis, and cartography. This course serves as a springboard to more in-depth courses in the field of geospatial science.
GEOG 2080 can be used as a CLAS Social 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.

LING 2000 Foundations of Linguistics
Fall 2025 In-Person

Provides students with the foundations of the scientific study of language. Examines core areas within theoretical linguisitics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and writing systems, using a variety of languages.
LING 2000 can be used as a CORE Behavioral Sciences class -or- a CLAS Behavioral Sciences class -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.

ETST 2357 Asian American & Pacific Islander Cultures
Fall 2025 Online

This is an introductory course that will examine how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have been represented in American popular culture and how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have sought to challenge and complicate those dominant cultural images to define themselves and their diverse experiences.
ETST 2357 can be used as a CORE Humanities courses _or_ as a CLAS Humanities course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

PBHL 2001 Introduction to Public Health
Fall 2025 Online

An overview of the discipline and practice of public health. Includes the history of the field, its population perspective, emphasis on prevention, tools and techniques. General principles of the field are illustrated through contemporary public health case studies.
PBHL 2001 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course -or- as a CLAS Social 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. Required Recitation. No Prereqs.

INTS 2020 Foundations of International Studies
Fall 2025 In-Person

Through a combination of lecture, discussion, and hands-on learning activities, students will develop skills and abilities necessary for academic and professional success in the international studies arena, especially critical thinking, connection building, conceptual understanding, and cultural awareness. The course is structured in three phases: (1) core interdisciplinary concepts; (2) regional foci; and (3) global issues.
INTS 2020 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives 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. If you already have credit in INTS 2000, you will not earn new credit in INTS 2020. No Prereqs.

ETST 2000 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

This course is open to everyone and is a multi-disciplinary survey of contemporary and historical research analyses of the diverse social, economic, political, and cultural facets of African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Latino communities and cultures.
ETST 2000 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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 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 3666 Anthropology of Death
Fall 2025 Online

In this new CORE Cultural Diversity course students will identify and understand the range of human expression through the treatment of human remains in anthropological literature with focus on burials, mortuary practices, and associated rituals. Along with more theoretical papers, specific case studies will be used to address a variety of topics and issues, such as historic and prehistoric social organization, bio-archaeology, cannibalism, human sacrifice, mummification, the ethics of studying human remains, and the treatment of pets in prehistory. The time range that we will cover in the course will span from the Neolithic to the early 20th century, and numerous cultures from all parts of the globe will be our subject matter. See Flyer.
ANTH 3666 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ 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. No Prereqs.

PSCI 4354 Environmental Politics
Fall 2025 Online

Political, legal, and economic forces in environmental law and policy. Special emphasis on air and water pollution and on threats to public and agricultural land. Environmental groups and their opponents.
PSCI 4354 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.

COMM 4500 Health Communication
Fall 2025 Online

This class examines the role of communication in a wide range of health contexts. Topics include cultural constructions of health and illness, public health communication campaigns, client-provider interactions, telemedicine, community-based health programs, and medical journalism.
COMM 4500 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. No Prereqs.

ANTH 3072 Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls
Fall 2025 Online

"Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls" explores the differences between science and pseudoscience specifically within the realm of anthropology. Scientific method and critical thought are employed in a way that trains students to question and recognize the difference between fact and fiction in data. See Flyer.
ANTH 3072 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences co_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.

PSCI 4550 The Irish Diaspora
Fall 2025 In-Person

While the population of Ireland today is roughly five million, there are an estimated 80 million people worldwide and nearly 50 million people in North America who claim some Irish identity. This course will explore this massive, nearly 5 century old, diaspora, beginning with the Plantations of Ulster and subsequent Ulster Scots emigration to North America, through the Great Hunger of the 19th century and massive exodus to the United States, Canada, Australia, and beyond. The course focus heavily on Irish immigrant communities in early Colorado, specifically Leadville, examining the history of our own community as a window into the larger political, social, and economic structures that drove such a migration. The course will conclude with an examination of the N. Ireland Peace Process, Good Friday Agreement, and BREXIT, inquiring about the role that Ireland and the Irish Diaspora plays today in global politics. Note: Students in this course will travel to parts of Colorado that once had significant Irish immigrant communities, places such as Leadville, Cripple Creek/Victor, Nevadaville, and various Catholic parishes and cemeteries in Denver. Students will also be expected to perform primary source research on Irish communities in early Colorado.
PSCI 4550 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.

ANTH 3000 Globalization, Migration and Transnationalism
Fall 2025 Online

Open to all students, ANTH 3000 examines the cultural dynamics of globalization, including: the development of special economic zones in the global south, rural to urban migration, transnational migration, the maintenance of transnational ties, and cross-border social formations. Reviews the dynamics of globalization through case studies and film. See Flyer.
ANTH 3000 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course _or_ 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. No Prereqs.

ECON 4030 Data Analysis with SAS
Fall 2025 In-Person Saturdays

For students who have a C- or higher in ECON 3811, this course covers techniques for handling and interpreting economic data and conducting econometric analyses using SAS programming. Provides hands-on data management and analyses with large data sets with applications to business and economics, and prepare students for SAS Base Programmer certification exam.
ECON 4030 is a CLAS Social Sciences course that can be used in the ECON-BA major or ECON minor 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: ECON 3811 with C- or higher.

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

Open to Juniors and Seniors, this course offers students opportunities to examine and compose texts where language is integrated with other media, such as video, still images, music, etc. Includes basic instruction in digital multimedia composition and design tools.
ENGL 3084 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Communicative Skills course _or_ 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: 60 hours earned.

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

In this course, students read, discuss, and write short fiction and poetry in a workshop setting.
ENGL 2156 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Humanities _or_ as 3 hours lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs but you should have completed ENGL 1020.

LING 2000 Foundations of Linguistics
Fall 2025 In-Person

Provides students with the foundations of the scientific study of language. Examines core areas within theoretical linguisitics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and writing systems, using a variety of languages.
LING 2000 can be used as a CORE Behavioral Sciences class -or- a CLAS Behavioral Sciences class -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.

COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

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- 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.

ANTH 3666 Anthropology of Death
Fall 2025 Online

In this new CORE Cultural Diversity course students will identify and understand the range of human expression through the treatment of human remains in anthropological literature with focus on burials, mortuary practices, and associated rituals. Along with more theoretical papers, specific case studies will be used to address a variety of topics and issues, such as historic and prehistoric social organization, bio-archaeology, cannibalism, human sacrifice, mummification, the ethics of studying human remains, and the treatment of pets in prehistory. The time range that we will cover in the course will span from the Neolithic to the early 20th century, and numerous cultures from all parts of the globe will be our subject matter. See Flyer.
ANTH 3666 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ 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. No Prereqs.

ETST 2357 Asian American & Pacific Islander Cultures
Fall 2025 Online

This is an introductory course that will examine how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have been represented in American popular culture and how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have sought to challenge and complicate those dominant cultural images to define themselves and their diverse experiences.
ETST 2357 can be used as a CORE Humanities courses _or_ as a CLAS Humanities course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

ENGL 1601 Storytelling: Literature, Film, and Television
Fall 2025 Online -or- In-Person

This course asks students to explore how stories determine who we are. Everything people do fits into a narrative pattern, evident everywhere from TV news to memory to daily schedules. We tell ourselves stories about ourselves and others--how do these stories shape who we are as cultural beings?
ENGL 1601 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities 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 but this course assumes that students have completed or are taking ENGL 1020.

ANTH 3000 Globalization, Migration and Transnationalism
Fall 2025 Online

Open to all students, ANTH 3000 examines the cultural dynamics of globalization, including: the development of special economic zones in the global south, rural to urban migration, transnational migration, the maintenance of transnational ties, and cross-border social formations. Reviews the dynamics of globalization through case studies and film. See Flyer.
ANTH 3000 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course _or_ 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. No Prereqs.

INTS 2020 Foundations of International Studies
Fall 2025 In-Person

Through a combination of lecture, discussion, and hands-on learning activities, students will develop skills and abilities necessary for academic and professional success in the international studies arena, especially critical thinking, connection building, conceptual understanding, and cultural awareness. The course is structured in three phases: (1) core interdisciplinary concepts; (2) regional foci; and (3) global issues.
INTS 2020 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives 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. If you already have credit in INTS 2000, you will not earn new credit in INTS 2020. No Prereqs.

ANTH 3072 Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls
Fall 2025 Online

"Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls" explores the differences between science and pseudoscience specifically within the realm of anthropology. Scientific method and critical thought are employed in a way that trains students to question and recognize the difference between fact and fiction in data. See Flyer.
ANTH 3072 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences co_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.

GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Fall 2025 Online or Hybrid

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- 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 2025 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- 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.

PBHL 2001 Introduction to Public Health
Fall 2025 Online

An overview of the discipline and practice of public health. Includes the history of the field, its population perspective, emphasis on prevention, tools and techniques. General principles of the field are illustrated through contemporary public health case studies.
PBHL 2001 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course -or- as a CLAS Social 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. Required Recitation. No Prereqs.

ETST 2000 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

This course is open to everyone and is a multi-disciplinary survey of contemporary and historical research analyses of the diverse social, economic, political, and cultural facets of African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Latino communities and cultures.
ETST 2000 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ANTH, COMM, or PSYC prefix.

ANTH 3666 Anthropology of Death
Fall 2025 Online

In this new CORE Cultural Diversity course students will identify and understand the range of human expression through the treatment of human remains in anthropological literature with focus on burials, mortuary practices, and associated rituals. Along with more theoretical papers, specific case studies will be used to address a variety of topics and issues, such as historic and prehistoric social organization, bio-archaeology, cannibalism, human sacrifice, mummification, the ethics of studying human remains, and the treatment of pets in prehistory. The time range that we will cover in the course will span from the Neolithic to the early 20th century, and numerous cultures from all parts of the globe will be our subject matter. See Flyer.
ANTH 3666 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ 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. No Prereqs.

COMM 4500 Health Communication
Fall 2025 Online

This class examines the role of communication in a wide range of health contexts. Topics include cultural constructions of health and illness, public health communication campaigns, client-provider interactions, telemedicine, community-based health programs, and medical journalism.
COMM 4500 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. No Prereqs.

ANTH 3000 Globalization, Migration and Transnationalism
Fall 2025 Online

Open to all students, ANTH 3000 examines the cultural dynamics of globalization, including: the development of special economic zones in the global south, rural to urban migration, transnational migration, the maintenance of transnational ties, and cross-border social formations. Reviews the dynamics of globalization through case studies and film. See Flyer.
ANTH 3000 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course _or_ 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. No Prereqs.

COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

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- 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.

ANTH 3072 Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls
Fall 2025 Online

"Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls" explores the differences between science and pseudoscience specifically within the realm of anthropology. Scientific method and critical thought are employed in a way that trains students to question and recognize the difference between fact and fiction in data. See Flyer.
ANTH 3072 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences co_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.

ENGL 1601 Storytelling: Literature, Film, and Television
Fall 2025 Online -or- In-Person

This course asks students to explore how stories determine who we are. Everything people do fits into a narrative pattern, evident everywhere from TV news to memory to daily schedules. We tell ourselves stories about ourselves and others--how do these stories shape who we are as cultural beings?
ENGL 1601 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities 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 but this course assumes that students have completed or are taking ENGL 1020.

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

Open to Juniors and Seniors, this course offers students opportunities to examine and compose texts where language is integrated with other media, such as video, still images, music, etc. Includes basic instruction in digital multimedia composition and design tools.
ENGL 3084 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Communicative Skills course _or_ 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: 60 hours earned.

ETST 2357 Asian American & Pacific Islander Cultures
Fall 2025 Online

This is an introductory course that will examine how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have been represented in American popular culture and how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have sought to challenge and complicate those dominant cultural images to define themselves and their diverse experiences.
ETST 2357 can be used as a CORE Humanities courses _or_ as a CLAS Humanities course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

In this course, students read, discuss, and write short fiction and poetry in a workshop setting.
ENGL 2156 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Humanities _or_ as 3 hours lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs but you should have completed ENGL 1020.

ANTH 3072 Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls
Fall 2025 Online

"Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls" explores the differences between science and pseudoscience specifically within the realm of anthropology. Scientific method and critical thought are employed in a way that trains students to question and recognize the difference between fact and fiction in data. See Flyer.
ANTH 3072 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences co_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.

GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Fall 2025 Online or Hybrid

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- 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.

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

Open to Juniors and Seniors, this course offers students opportunities to examine and compose texts where language is integrated with other media, such as video, still images, music, etc. Includes basic instruction in digital multimedia composition and design tools.
ENGL 3084 can be used as a CORE Arts course _or_ as a CLAS Communicative Skills course _or_ 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: 60 hours earned.

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 2025 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- 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.

PBHL 2001 Introduction to Public Health
Fall 2025 Online

An overview of the discipline and practice of public health. Includes the history of the field, its population perspective, emphasis on prevention, tools and techniques. General principles of the field are illustrated through contemporary public health case studies.
PBHL 2001 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course -or- as a CLAS Social 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. Required Recitation. No Prereqs.

ETST 2357 Asian American & Pacific Islander Cultures
Fall 2025 Online

This is an introductory course that will examine how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have been represented in American popular culture and how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have sought to challenge and complicate those dominant cultural images to define themselves and their diverse experiences.
ETST 2357 can be used as a CORE Humanities courses _or_ as a CLAS Humanities course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

PSCI 4550 The Irish Diaspora
Fall 2025 In-Person

While the population of Ireland today is roughly five million, there are an estimated 80 million people worldwide and nearly 50 million people in North America who claim some Irish identity. This course will explore this massive, nearly 5 century old, diaspora, beginning with the Plantations of Ulster and subsequent Ulster Scots emigration to North America, through the Great Hunger of the 19th century and massive exodus to the United States, Canada, Australia, and beyond. The course focus heavily on Irish immigrant communities in early Colorado, specifically Leadville, examining the history of our own community as a window into the larger political, social, and economic structures that drove such a migration. The course will conclude with an examination of the N. Ireland Peace Process, Good Friday Agreement, and BREXIT, inquiring about the role that Ireland and the Irish Diaspora plays today in global politics. Note: Students in this course will travel to parts of Colorado that once had significant Irish immigrant communities, places such as Leadville, Cripple Creek/Victor, Nevadaville, and various Catholic parishes and cemeteries in Denver. Students will also be expected to perform primary source research on Irish communities in early Colorado.
PSCI 4550 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.

GEOG 2080 The Power of Maps: Introduction to Geospatial Sciences
Fall 2025 In-Person

A map can be thought of “macroscope” that enables readers to visualize, explore, and analyze patterns that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye. As microscopes enabled vast advances in biology by enabling people to see entities that were otherwise impossible to see—cells, bacteria, viruses, and the like—so have maps enabled advances in geography and other fields by enabling us to view patterns across vast areas of the earth, equally impossible to “see” with the naked eye. The importance of data and information in our society has infused mapping with more power than ever before, engendering the field of cartography with a great deal of salience, both as a professional skill and as force that affects society and policy. In this course, students learn about the basic principles of mapping and learn about key pathways into the field, including geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, spatial analysis, and cartography. This course serves as a springboard to more in-depth courses in the field of geospatial science.
GEOG 2080 can be used as a CLAS Social 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.

GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Fall 2025 Online or Hybrid

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- 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 2000 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

This course is open to everyone and is a multi-disciplinary survey of contemporary and historical research analyses of the diverse social, economic, political, and cultural facets of African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Latino communities and cultures.
ETST 2000 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

ECON 4030 Data Analysis with SAS
Fall 2025 In-Person Saturdays

For students who have a C- or higher in ECON 3811, this course covers techniques for handling and interpreting economic data and conducting econometric analyses using SAS programming. Provides hands-on data management and analyses with large data sets with applications to business and economics, and prepare students for SAS Base Programmer certification exam.
ECON 4030 is a CLAS Social Sciences course that can be used in the ECON-BA major or ECON minor 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: ECON 3811 with C- or higher.

PSCI 4354 Environmental Politics
Fall 2025 Online

Political, legal, and economic forces in environmental law and policy. Special emphasis on air and water pollution and on threats to public and agricultural land. Environmental groups and their opponents.
PSCI 4354 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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GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Fall 2025 Online or Hybrid

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- 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.

COMM 4500 Health Communication
Fall 2025 Online

This class examines the role of communication in a wide range of health contexts. Topics include cultural constructions of health and illness, public health communication campaigns, client-provider interactions, telemedicine, community-based health programs, and medical journalism.
COMM 4500 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. No Prereqs.

ETST 2000 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

This course is open to everyone and is a multi-disciplinary survey of contemporary and historical research analyses of the diverse social, economic, political, and cultural facets of African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Latino communities and cultures.
ETST 2000 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

PBHL 2001 Introduction to Public Health
Fall 2025 Online

An overview of the discipline and practice of public health. Includes the history of the field, its population perspective, emphasis on prevention, tools and techniques. General principles of the field are illustrated through contemporary public health case studies.
PBHL 2001 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course -or- as a CLAS Social 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. Required Recitation. No Prereqs.

ANTH 3666 Anthropology of Death
Fall 2025 Online

In this new CORE Cultural Diversity course students will identify and understand the range of human expression through the treatment of human remains in anthropological literature with focus on burials, mortuary practices, and associated rituals. Along with more theoretical papers, specific case studies will be used to address a variety of topics and issues, such as historic and prehistoric social organization, bio-archaeology, cannibalism, human sacrifice, mummification, the ethics of studying human remains, and the treatment of pets in prehistory. The time range that we will cover in the course will span from the Neolithic to the early 20th century, and numerous cultures from all parts of the globe will be our subject matter. See Flyer.
ANTH 3666 can be used as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ 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. No Prereqs.

COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

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- 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.

PSCI 4354 Environmental Politics
Fall 2025 Online

Political, legal, and economic forces in environmental law and policy. Special emphasis on air and water pollution and on threats to public and agricultural land. Environmental groups and their opponents.
PSCI 4354 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.

ANTH 3000 Globalization, Migration and Transnationalism
Fall 2025 Online

Open to all students, ANTH 3000 examines the cultural dynamics of globalization, including: the development of special economic zones in the global south, rural to urban migration, transnational migration, the maintenance of transnational ties, and cross-border social formations. Reviews the dynamics of globalization through case studies and film. See Flyer.
ANTH 3000 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course _or_ 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. No Prereqs.

ANTH 3072 Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls
Fall 2025 Online

"Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls" explores the differences between science and pseudoscience specifically within the realm of anthropology. Scientific method and critical thought are employed in a way that trains students to question and recognize the difference between fact and fiction in data. See Flyer.
ANTH 3072 can be used as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences co_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.

ENGL 1601 Storytelling: Literature, Film, and Television
Fall 2025 Online -or- In-Person

This course asks students to explore how stories determine who we are. Everything people do fits into a narrative pattern, evident everywhere from TV news to memory to daily schedules. We tell ourselves stories about ourselves and others--how do these stories shape who we are as cultural beings?
ENGL 1601 can be used as a CORE Humanities course -or- as a CLAS Humanities 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 but this course assumes that students have completed or are taking ENGL 1020.

ETST 2357 Asian American & Pacific Islander Cultures
Fall 2025 Online

This is an introductory course that will examine how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have been represented in American popular culture and how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have sought to challenge and complicate those dominant cultural images to define themselves and their diverse experiences.
ETST 2357 can be used as a CORE Humanities courses _or_ as a CLAS Humanities course _or_ as a CLAS Social 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.

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Summer 2025

PBHL 3500 Climate Justice Summer 2025 Online

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality Summer 2025 Maymester Online

CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology Summer 2025 Online or In-Person

ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science with required lab ENVS 1045 Summer 2025 Online

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing Summer 2025 Online

ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry Summer 2025 Online

ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

BIOL 1135 Human Biology BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory Summer 2025 Online

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 4090-M01 Psychedelic Anthropology Summer 2025 Maymester In-Person

PBHL 3500 Climate Justice Summer 2025 Online

PSCI 4014 Media and Politics Summer 2025 Online First Four Weeks Course runs 6/9-7/5

ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World Summer 2025 Online

PSCI 3347 Film and Politics Summer 2025 Online Second Four Weeks Course runs 7/7-8/2

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality Summer 2025 Maymester Online

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling Summer 2025 Online

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology Summer 2025 Online or In-Person

BIOL 1135 Human Biology BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory Summer 2025 Online

ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science with required lab ENVS 1045 Summer 2025 Online

ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

ANTH 4090-M01 Psychedelic Anthropology Summer 2025 Maymester In-Person

ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World Summer 2025 Online

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling Summer 2025 Online

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling Summer 2025 Online

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing Summer 2025 Online

BIOL 1135 Human Biology BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory Summer 2025 Online

CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology Summer 2025 Online or In-Person

ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science with required lab ENVS 1045 Summer 2025 Online

PBHL 3500 Climate Justice Summer 2025 Online

PSCI 4014 Media and Politics Summer 2025 Online First Four Weeks Course runs 6/9-7/5

ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality Summer 2025 Maymester Online

PSCI 3347 Film and Politics Summer 2025 Online Second Four Weeks Course runs 7/7-8/2

ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World Summer 2025 Online

PSCI 4014 Media and Politics Summer 2025 Online First Four Weeks Course runs 6/9-7/5

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling Summer 2025 Online

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality Summer 2025 Maymester Online

BIOL 1135 Human Biology BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory Summer 2025 Online

PBHL 3500 Climate Justice Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology Summer 2025 Online or In-Person

ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science with required lab ENVS 1045 Summer 2025 Online

CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry Summer 2025 Online

PSCI 3347 Film and Politics Summer 2025 Online Second Four Weeks Course runs 7/7-8/2

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 4090-M01 Psychedelic Anthropology Summer 2025 Maymester In-Person

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality Summer 2025 Maymester Online

Fall 2025

ANTH 3666 Anthropology of Death Fall 2025 Online

GEOG 1302 Introduction to Human Geography Fall 2025 In-Person

COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography Fall 2025 Online or Hybrid

ENGL 1601 Storytelling: Literature, Film, and Television Fall 2025 Online -or- In-Person

GEOG 2080 The Power of Maps: Introduction to Geospatial Sciences Fall 2025 In-Person

LING 2000 Foundations of Linguistics Fall 2025 In-Person

ETST 2357 Asian American & Pacific Islander Cultures Fall 2025 Online

PBHL 2001 Introduction to Public Health Fall 2025 Online

INTS 2020 Foundations of International Studies Fall 2025 In-Person

ETST 2000 Introduction to Ethnic Studies Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

ANTH 3666 Anthropology of Death Fall 2025 Online

PSCI 4354 Environmental Politics Fall 2025 Online

COMM 4500 Health Communication Fall 2025 Online

ANTH 3072 Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls Fall 2025 Online

PSCI 4550 The Irish Diaspora Fall 2025 In-Person

ANTH 3000 Globalization, Migration and Transnationalism Fall 2025 Online

ECON 4030 Data Analysis with SAS Fall 2025 In-Person Saturdays

PBHL 3500 Climate Justice
Summer 2025 Online

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2025 Maymester Online

CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 2025 Online or In-Person

ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science
with required lab ENVS 1045
Summer 2025 Online

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Summer 2025 Online

ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Summer 2025 Online

ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

BIOL 1135 Human Biology
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory
Summer 2025 Online

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 4090-M01 Psychedelic Anthropology
Summer 2025 Maymester In-Person

PBHL 3500 Climate Justice
Summer 2025 Online

PSCI 4014 Media and Politics
Summer 2025 Online First Four Weeks
Course runs 6/9-7/5

ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
Summer 2025 Online

PSCI 3347 Film and Politics
Summer 2025 Online Second Four Weeks
Course runs 7/7-8/2

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2025 Maymester Online

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Summer 2025 Online

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 2025 Online or In-Person

BIOL 1135 Human Biology
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory
Summer 2025 Online

ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science
with required lab ENVS 1045
Summer 2025 Online

ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

ANTH 4090-M01 Psychedelic Anthropology
Summer 2025 Maymester In-Person

ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
Summer 2025 Online

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Summer 2025 Online

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Summer 2025 Online

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Summer 2025 Online

BIOL 1135 Human Biology
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory
Summer 2025 Online

CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 2025 Online or In-Person

ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science
with required lab ENVS 1045
Summer 2025 Online

PBHL 3500 Climate Justice
Summer 2025 Online

PSCI 4014 Media and Politics
Summer 2025 Online First Four Weeks
Course runs 6/9-7/5

ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2025 Maymester Online

PSCI 3347 Film and Politics
Summer 2025 Online Second Four Weeks
Course runs 7/7-8/2

ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
Summer 2025 Online

PSCI 4014 Media and Politics
Summer 2025 Online First Four Weeks
Course runs 6/9-7/5

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Summer 2025 Online

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2025 Maymester Online

BIOL 1135 Human Biology
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory
Summer 2025 Online

PBHL 3500 Climate Justice
Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 2025 Online or In-Person

ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Summer 2025 In-Person or Online

ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science
with required lab ENVS 1045
Summer 2025 Online

CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Summer 2025 Online

PSCI 3347 Film and Politics
Summer 2025 Online Second Four Weeks
Course runs 7/7-8/2

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Summer 2025 Online

ANTH 4090-M01 Psychedelic Anthropology
Summer 2025 Maymester In-Person

SOCY 3010-ME1 Sociology of Human Sexuality
Summer 2025 Maymester Online

ANTH 3666 Anthropology of Death
Fall 2025 Online

GEOG 1302 Introduction to Human Geography
Fall 2025 In-Person

COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Fall 2025 Online or Hybrid

ENGL 1601 Storytelling: Literature, Film, and Television
Fall 2025 Online -or- In-Person

GEOG 2080 The Power of Maps: Introduction to Geospatial Sciences
Fall 2025 In-Person

LING 2000 Foundations of Linguistics
Fall 2025 In-Person

ETST 2357 Asian American & Pacific Islander Cultures
Fall 2025 Online

PBHL 2001 Introduction to Public Health
Fall 2025 Online

INTS 2020 Foundations of International Studies
Fall 2025 In-Person

ETST 2000 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

ANTH 3666 Anthropology of Death
Fall 2025 Online

PSCI 4354 Environmental Politics
Fall 2025 Online

COMM 4500 Health Communication
Fall 2025 Online

ANTH 3072 Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls
Fall 2025 Online

PSCI 4550 The Irish Diaspora
Fall 2025 In-Person

ANTH 3000 Globalization, Migration and Transnationalism
Fall 2025 Online

ECON 4030 Data Analysis with SAS
Fall 2025 In-Person Saturdays

ENGL 3084 Digital Writing and Storytelling
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

LING 2000 Foundations of Linguistics
Fall 2025 In-Person

COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person

ANTH 3666 Anthropology of Death
Fall 2025 Online

ETST 2357 Asian American & Pacific Islander Cultures
Fall 2025 Online

ENGL 1601 Storytelling: Literature, Film, and Television
Fall 2025 Online -or- In-Person