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Spring 2025
- Spring 2025 Enrollment
- Lower-Division Courses
- Upper-Division Courses
- CORE Arts
- CORE Behavioral Sciences
- CORE Humanities
- CORE International Perspectives
- CORE Natural & Physical Sciences
- CORE Social Sciences
- CLAS Behavioral Sciences
- CLAS Humanities
- CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences
- CLAS Social Sciences
- Online Courses
Spring 2025 enrollment/add/drop begins in November.
- Be aware of Academic Dates and Deadlines.
- Plan for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before the end of October: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
- Prepare to register: Review your degree audit, discuss your degree plan with your major advisors, and create your class schedule by filling your shopping cart.
- See ADVISING STEPS and HOW TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES and enroll when you can.
- As a CLAS BA or BS degree-seeking student, you need to work with your major and minor faculty advisors to plan out major coursework.
- Review your CORE and CLAS Requirements with your assigned CLAS Academic Advisor.
- Contact CLAS Advising, CLAS.Advising@UCDenver.edu, 303-315-7100, with questions.
- If you are completing your degree requirements in Spring 2025, in November you will need to apply for graduation in UCDAccess: In UCDAccess, find your "Student Center,” select “Academics," then select "Apply for graduation." --- Spring 2025 Graduation application opens in the first week of November.
- Prepare to earn your best grades with Success Strategies.
PHIL 3333 Happiness and the Good Life
Spring 2025 In-Person
- Happiness is something we all want, but what is it? Happiness can be difficult to define, let alone to achieve. Is it a state? A feeling? An illusion? Is happiness something we can even control? Is it related to morality and ethics? This course will consider various philosophers' writings on happiness and the good life, and may include comparisons that range across time, culture, and other disciplines (such as economics and positive psychology).
- PHIL 3333 can be used as a CORE Humanities 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. No Prereqs
Please bookmark this page and return throughout October for more Spring 2025 Course Highlights.
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
GEOG 2080 Introduction to Mapping and Map Analysis
Spring 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.
COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Spring 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 1302 Introduction to Human Geography
Spring 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.
ENGL 1601 Storytelling: Literature, Film, and Television
Spring 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.
PBHL 2001 Introduction to Public Health
Spring 2025 In-Person
- 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. No Prereqs.
GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Spring 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.
ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science
with required lab ENVS 1045
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Climate change. Acid rain. Water pollution. Extinction. You undoubtably know the long list of challenges facing the Earth's environmental systems, but do you truly know how these issues develop? What about the (sometimes hidden) part you play in their creation or the simple actions that you can take to solve them? From start to finish, ENVS 1044 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
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Students in this course will read, discuss and write short fiction and poetry in a workshop setting. Open to all students but it is assumed that students have completed ENGL 1020.
- 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.
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).
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
PHIL 3333 Happiness and the Good Life
Spring 2025 In-Person
- Happiness is something we all want, but what is it? Happiness can be difficult to define, let alone to achieve. Is it a state? A feeling? An illusion? Is happiness something we can even control? Is it related to morality and ethics? This course will consider various philosophers' writings on happiness and the good life, and may include comparisons that range across time, culture, and other disciplines (such as economics and positive psychology).
- PHIL 3333 can be used as a CORE Humanities 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. No Prereqs
PBHL 3010 Human Sexuality and Public Health
Spring 2025 Online
- The focus of this course is on human sexuality using a public health lens, examining a number of sexual health issues and their relationship to individual, familial, organizational, and social-level influences. Additionally, we will focus on identifying both primary prevention and intervention approaches to reducing sexual risk factors and increasing healthy behaviors.
- PBHL 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. No Prereqs.
COMM 4500 Health Communication
Spring 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 3272 Global Media
Spring 2025 Online
- This course introduces leading issues in the study of transnational media while focusing on the global media environment in the early 21st century, diverse countries, a variety of media, and social issues.
- ETST 3272 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Students in this course will read, discuss and write short fiction and poetry in a workshop setting. Open to all students but it is assumed that students have completed ENGL 1020.
- 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.
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Spring 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.
Please bookmark this page and return throughout October for more Spring 2025 Course Highlights.
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
PHIL 3333 Happiness and the Good Life
Spring 2025 In-Person
- Happiness is something we all want, but what is it? Happiness can be difficult to define, let alone to achieve. Is it a state? A feeling? An illusion? Is happiness something we can even control? Is it related to morality and ethics? This course will consider various philosophers' writings on happiness and the good life, and may include comparisons that range across time, culture, and other disciplines (such as economics and positive psychology).
- PHIL 3333 can be used as a CORE Humanities 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. No Prereqs
ENGL 1601 Storytelling: Literature, Film, and Television
Spring 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.
Please bookmark this page and return throughout October for more Spring 2025 Course Highlights.
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
ETST 3272 Global Media
Spring 2025 Online
- This course introduces leading issues in the study of transnational media while focusing on the global media environment in the early 21st century, diverse countries, a variety of media, and social issues.
- ETST 3272 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
Please bookmark this page and return throughout October for more Spring 2025 Course Highlights.
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Spring 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.
ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science
with required lab ENVS 1045
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Climate change. Acid rain. Water pollution. Extinction. You undoubtably know the long list of challenges facing the Earth's environmental systems, but do you truly know how these issues develop? What about the (sometimes hidden) part you play in their creation or the simple actions that you can take to solve them? From start to finish, ENVS 1044 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.
Please bookmark this page and return throughout October for more Spring 2025 Course Highlights.
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
PBHL 2001 Introduction to Public Health
Spring 2025 In-Person
- 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. No Prereqs.
GEOG 1302 Introduction to Human Geography
Spring 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.
Please bookmark this page and return throughout October for more Spring 2025 Course Highlights.
CLAS Behavioral Sciences Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ANTH, COMM or PSYC prefix.
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
COMM 4500 Health Communication
Spring 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.
COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Spring 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.
Please bookmark this page and return throughout October for more Spring 2025 Course Highlights.
CLAS Humanities Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ENGL, HIST, HEHM, HUMN, PHIL, or RLST prefix or a SPAN, FREN, GRMN, CHIN culture or literature course. Students may not use a language acquisition course or a lower-division English Composition course such as ENGL1010 to satisfy this requirement.
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
ENGL 1601 Storytelling: Literature, Film, and Television
Spring 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.
PHIL 3333 Happiness and the Good Life
Spring 2025 In-Person
- Happiness is something we all want, but what is it? Happiness can be difficult to define, let alone to achieve. Is it a state? A feeling? An illusion? Is happiness something we can even control? Is it related to morality and ethics? This course will consider various philosophers' writings on happiness and the good life, and may include comparisons that range across time, culture, and other disciplines (such as economics and positive psychology).
- PHIL 3333 can be used as a CORE Humanities 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. No Prereqs
ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Students in this course will read, discuss and write short fiction and poetry in a workshop setting. Open to all students but it is assumed that students have completed ENGL 1020.
- 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.
Please bookmark this page and return throughout October for more Spring 2025 Course Highlights.
CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with a BIOL, CHEM, GEOL, PHYS, or MATH prefix, or ANTH 1303, ENVS 1044+1045, GEOG 1202, PSYC 2220. If you have only one science course-with-lab for the CU Denver Core Curriculum, this course MUST have an associated lab.
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science
with required lab ENVS 1045
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Climate change. Acid rain. Water pollution. Extinction. You undoubtably know the long list of challenges facing the Earth's environmental systems, but do you truly know how these issues develop? What about the (sometimes hidden) part you play in their creation or the simple actions that you can take to solve them? From start to finish, ENVS 1044 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.
GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Spring 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.
Please bookmark this page and return throughout October for more Spring 2025 Course Highlights.
CLAS Social Sciences Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ECON, ETST, GEOG, PBHL, PSCI, or SOCY prefix or ENVS1342, RLST3800 or SJUS2000.
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
ETST 3272 Global Media
Spring 2025 Online
- This course introduces leading issues in the study of transnational media while focusing on the global media environment in the early 21st century, diverse countries, a variety of media, and social issues.
- ETST 3272 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
PBHL 2001 Introduction to Public Health
Spring 2025 In-Person
- 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. No Prereqs.
GEOG 2080 Introduction to Mapping and Map Analysis
Spring 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.
PBHL 3010 Human Sexuality and Public Health
Spring 2025 Online
- The focus of this course is on human sexuality using a public health lens, examining a number of sexual health issues and their relationship to individual, familial, organizational, and social-level influences. Additionally, we will focus on identifying both primary prevention and intervention approaches to reducing sexual risk factors and increasing healthy behaviors.
- PBHL 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. No Prereqs.
GEOG 1302 Introduction to Human Geography
Spring 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.
Please bookmark this page and return throughout October for more Spring 2025 Course Highlights.
Online courses are taught asynchronously through Canvas at https://ucdenver.instructure.com.
- Plan NOW for Spring 2025:
- In October: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- Before November 1: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- In November: You will enroll in Spring classes at your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
PBHL 3010 Human Sexuality and Public Health
Spring 2025 Online
- The focus of this course is on human sexuality using a public health lens, examining a number of sexual health issues and their relationship to individual, familial, organizational, and social-level influences. Additionally, we will focus on identifying both primary prevention and intervention approaches to reducing sexual risk factors and increasing healthy behaviors.
- PBHL 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. No Prereqs.
COMM 4500 Health Communication
Spring 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.
COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
Spring 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.
ENGL 1601 Storytelling: Literature, Film, and Television
Spring 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 3272 Global Media
Spring 2025 Online
- This course introduces leading issues in the study of transnational media while focusing on the global media environment in the early 21st century, diverse countries, a variety of media, and social issues.
- ETST 3272 can be used as a CORE International Perspectives course -or- as a CLAS Social Sciences course -or- as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
GEOG 1202 Introduction to Physical Geography
Spring 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.
ENVS 1044 Introduction to Environmental Science
with required lab ENVS 1045
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Climate change. Acid rain. Water pollution. Extinction. You undoubtably know the long list of challenges facing the Earth's environmental systems, but do you truly know how these issues develop? What about the (sometimes hidden) part you play in their creation or the simple actions that you can take to solve them? From start to finish, ENVS 1044 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
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Students in this course will read, discuss and write short fiction and poetry in a workshop setting. Open to all students but it is assumed that students have completed ENGL 1020.
- 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.
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