Breadcrumb
Fall 2025
- Fall 2025 Enrollment
- Lower-Division Courses
- Upper-Division Courses
- CORE Arts
- CORE Behavioral Sciences
- CORE Cultural Diversity
- CORE Humanities
- CORE International Perspectives
- CORE Natural & Physical Sciences
- CORE Social Sciences
- CLAS Behavioral Sciences
- CLAS Humanities
- CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences
- CLAS Communicative Skills
- CLAS Social Sciences
- Online Courses
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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ENGL 3080 Global Cinema
Topic: Japanese Cinema
Fall 2025 In-Person Tue 5-7:50pm
- For Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors, this course explores various aspects of Japanese Cinema with Professor Andy. Meeting Tuesday evenings 5-7:50pm, there will be breaks and snacks are allowed.
- ENGL 3080 can be used as a CLAS Humanities course or as 3 hours upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: 30 or more earned hours.
PHIL 3001 The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Fall 2025 In-Person
- Data-driven technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly becoming central to our lives, shaping individuals and social institutions in both subtle and profound ways. Like any other new technology, AI has the potential to improve our lives, but also alter or diminish what we value. These are ethical stakes, worth serious attention. Careful analysis can help make sense of AI hype and identify how potential harms might be mitigated. This course gives students a tool kit to reason critically about some of the ethical and societal issues AI raises. Cross-listed with PHIL 5001
- PHIL 3001 can be used as a CLAS Humanities Course or as 3 hours upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
PBHL 3060 AAPI Communities and Health
Fall 2025 Online
- This course explores issues shaping health experiences and health status of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the United States. Historical and contemporary U.S. health and social policies that have directly impacted AAPI health and well-being in the United States are examined. Students will also engage with community leaders and partners committed to AAPI communities. Cross-listed with ETST 3060.
- PBHL 3060 (aka ETST 3060) can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences Course _or_ as 3 hours upper-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.
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.
PSYC 2111 Sophomore Seminar: Psychology as a Major and Career
Fall 2025 In-Person
- Open to students in all majors, this course introduces you to the different Psychology programs offered at CU Denver. It will provide you with information on the careers and professional opportunities available to students in Psychology and related fields. After this course, you will be able to answer your friend’s and family’s question “But what can you do with a Psychology degree?” Well, the answer is, quite a lot. In addition, this course will help you to develop and articulate the professional skills that you have as a student of psychology.
- PSYC 2111 can be used as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences Course 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.
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.
ANTH 2102 Culture and the Human Experience
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person
- Open to all students, this course applies the concept of culture to several aspects of the human experience, including gender relations, emotion and personality, cognition, language, health and healing and economic behavior. In exploring these dimensions of the human experience, the course focuses on selected cultures from each of the world's major geographic areas.
- ANTH 2102 can be used as a CORE Behavioral Sciences Course _or_ as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences Course _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.
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.
ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Fall 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.
- 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.
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).
ENGL 3080 Global Cinema
Topic: Japanese Cinema
Fall 2025 In-Person Tue 5-7:50pm
- For Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors, this course explores various aspects of Japanese Cinema with Professor Andy. Meeting Tuesday evenings 5-7:50pm, there will be breaks and snacks are allowed.
- ENGL 3080 can be used as a CLAS Humanities course or as 3 hours upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: 30 or more earned hours.
PHIL 3001 The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Fall 2025 In-Person
- Data-driven technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly becoming central to our lives, shaping individuals and social institutions in both subtle and profound ways. Like any other new technology, AI has the potential to improve our lives, but also alter or diminish what we value. These are ethical stakes, worth serious attention. Careful analysis can help make sense of AI hype and identify how potential harms might be mitigated. This course gives students a tool kit to reason critically about some of the ethical and societal issues AI raises. Cross-listed with PHIL 5001
- PHIL 3001 can be used as a CLAS Humanities Course or as 3 hours upper-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.
ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person
- 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.
- 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.
PBHL 3060 AAPI Communities and Health
Fall 2025 Online
- This course explores issues shaping health experiences and health status of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the United States. Historical and contemporary U.S. health and social policies that have directly impacted AAPI health and well-being in the United States are examined. Students will also engage with community leaders and partners committed to AAPI communities. Cross-listed with ETST 3060.
- PBHL 3060 (aka ETST 3060) can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences Course _or_ as 3 hours 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ANTH 2102 Culture and the Human Experience
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person
- Open to all students, this course applies the concept of culture to several aspects of the human experience, including gender relations, emotion and personality, cognition, language, health and healing and economic behavior. In exploring these dimensions of the human experience, the course focuses on selected cultures from each of the world's major geographic areas.
- ANTH 2102 can be used as a CORE Behavioral Sciences Course _or_ as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences Course _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.
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 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person
- 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.
- 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 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.
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.
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 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.
ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Fall 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
PSYC 2111 Sophomore Seminar: Psychology as a Major and Career
Fall 2025 In-Person
- Open to students in all majors, this course introduces you to the different Psychology programs offered at CU Denver. It will provide you with information on the careers and professional opportunities available to students in Psychology and related fields. After this course, you will be able to answer your friend’s and family’s question “But what can you do with a Psychology degree?” Well, the answer is, quite a lot. In addition, this course will help you to develop and articulate the professional skills that you have as a student of psychology.
- PSYC 2111 can be used as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences Course 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.
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.
ANTH 2102 Culture and the Human Experience
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person
- Open to all students, this course applies the concept of culture to several aspects of the human experience, including gender relations, emotion and personality, cognition, language, health and healing and economic behavior. In exploring these dimensions of the human experience, the course focuses on selected cultures from each of the world's major geographic areas.
- ANTH 2102 can be used as a CORE Behavioral Sciences Course _or_ as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences Course _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.
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.
ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person
- 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.
- 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.
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
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 3080 Global Cinema
Topic: Japanese Cinema
Fall 2025 In-Person Tue 5-7:50pm
- For Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors, this course explores various aspects of Japanese Cinema with Professor Andy. Meeting Tuesday evenings 5-7:50pm, there will be breaks and snacks are allowed.
- ENGL 3080 can be used as a CLAS Humanities course or as 3 hours upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: 30 or more earned hours.
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.
PHIL 3001 The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Fall 2025 In-Person
- Data-driven technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly becoming central to our lives, shaping individuals and social institutions in both subtle and profound ways. Like any other new technology, AI has the potential to improve our lives, but also alter or diminish what we value. These are ethical stakes, worth serious attention. Careful analysis can help make sense of AI hype and identify how potential harms might be mitigated. This course gives students a tool kit to reason critically about some of the ethical and societal issues AI raises. Cross-listed with PHIL 5001
- PHIL 3001 can be used as a CLAS Humanities Course or as 3 hours 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 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.
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.
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.
ANTH 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Fall 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.
- 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 3060 AAPI Communities and Health
Fall 2025 Online
- This course explores issues shaping health experiences and health status of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the United States. Historical and contemporary U.S. health and social policies that have directly impacted AAPI health and well-being in the United States are examined. Students will also engage with community leaders and partners committed to AAPI communities. Cross-listed with ETST 3060.
- PBHL 3060 (aka ETST 3060) can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences Course _or_ as 3 hours 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
ANTH 2102 Culture and the Human Experience
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person
- Open to all students, this course applies the concept of culture to several aspects of the human experience, including gender relations, emotion and personality, cognition, language, health and healing and economic behavior. In exploring these dimensions of the human experience, the course focuses on selected cultures from each of the world's major geographic areas.
- ANTH 2102 can be used as a CORE Behavioral Sciences Course _or_ as a CLAS Behavioral Sciences Course _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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1303 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Fall 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.
- 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.
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.
ANTH 3142 Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
Fall 2025 Online or In-Person
- 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.
- 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.
PBHL 3060 AAPI Communities and Health
Fall 2025 Online
- This course explores issues shaping health experiences and health status of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the United States. Historical and contemporary U.S. health and social policies that have directly impacted AAPI health and well-being in the United States are examined. Students will also engage with community leaders and partners committed to AAPI communities. Cross-listed with ETST 3060.
- PBHL 3060 (aka ETST 3060) can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences Course _or_ as 3 hours 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.
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