Course Highlights

Spring 2026 Registration/Add/Drop begins in November.

• Plan NOW for Spring 2026: Review your degree audit, clear any registration holds, discuss your degree plan with your major advisors, and create your class schedule in late October 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.
  • IN LATE OCTOBER: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess and enroll in November.
  • Clear any registration holds so you can enroll.
  • IN NOVEMBER: Finish enrolling in Spring 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 Spring 2026, you must apply for graduation in UCDAccess in November.
  • HOW TO APPLY FOR GRADUATION: In November log into UCDAccess, find your "Student Center,” select “Academics," then select "Apply for graduation." --- Apply before deadline.
• Prepare to earn your best grades with Success Strategies.

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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