Breadcrumb
Spring 2025
- Spring 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 Social Sciences
- Online Courses
Spring 2025 enrollment/add/drop is November-January.
- Be aware of Academic Dates and Deadlines.
- Plan for Spring 2025:
- BE SURE TO: Clear any registration holds – see https://ucdenver.edu/student/registration/holds
- FIRST: You need to review your degree audit and work with your Major Faculty Advisor to plan your degree.
- NEXT: You need to create your Spring schedule in your shopping cart in UCDAccess.
- IN NOVEMBER: You will enroll in Spring classes after your scheduled time – see How to Register for Classes.
Find your specific Spring 2025 “Enrollment Date/Time” in UCDAccess: https://ucdenver.edu/ucdaccess > Student Center > Academics > Term Information > View my enrollment dates
- Prepare to register: 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.
- 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 Requirements 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, you must apply for graduation in UCDAccess: In UCDAccess, find your "Student Center,” select “Academics," then select "Apply for graduation." --- Apply before classes start for your final semester.
- Prepare to earn your best grades with Success Strategies.
SUST 3010 Sustainability: Past, Present, and Future
Spring 2025 Remote via Zoom
- Open to all students, SUST 3010 helps students learn to identify systems, whether environmental, economic, or social, and how to work with them to create positive change. This course draws on theoretical perspectives to critically analyze contemporary environmental issues across ecological, sociocultural, historical, political and economic contexts. Contact David.Knochel@ucdenver.edu for more information.
- SUST 3010 can be used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit or as a required course in the Sustainability Minor. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
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
SOCY 3750 Animals and Society
Spring 2025 In-Person
- For Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, SOCY 3750 examines the category of “animal” as a social construct and the relationship between humans and non-human animals, which produces consequences of difference and subsequent inequality. The course utilizes different sociological perspectives to examine the social patterns, processes, and institutions that establish our lived experiences with non-human animals. Animals are the best! We all know that. But society’s relationship with non-human animals is complex. Meat production is one clear example. But so are the ethical issues at play in our relationships with our beloved pets. This course examines a variety of topics that have us rethink human-non-human interactions.
- SOCY 3750 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Sophomore standing.
PSCI 4075 Gentrification and Social Equity
Spring 2025 In-Person Weekends
Campus: Extended Studies
- Explore the causes and consequences of urban gentrification, in Denver and around the world. Study neighborhood displacement and homelessness, racial change and conflict, global capital flows, targeted policing, and social equity solutions. Class involves multiple field walking tours of gentrifying Denver neighborhoods. This Weekend Intensive Course can only be found by searching “Extended Studies” campus. Extended Studies tuition is billed separately and is NOT eligible for the COF stipend.
- PSCI 4075 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
GEOG 2080 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.
LING 2000 Foundations of Linguistics
Spring 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.
BIOL 1135 Human Biology
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory
Spring 2025 Online
- BIOL 1135 Human Biology (3-hour class), a course for students in non-science majors, covers topics such as basic human body chemistry, healthy internal body balance, new disease treatments, human inheritance and human beings as part of Earth's living systems. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1135 for students who have credit in BIOL 2010(2061), BIOL 2020(2051) or BIOL 1560.
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory (1-hour lab taken with BIOL 1135 in same term or later term) will investigate the function of the human body while emphasizing the use of the scientific method. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1137 for students who have credit in 2011(2081), BIOL 2021(2071) or BIOL 1560. - BIOL 1135 and BIOL 1137 together can be used as as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Spring 2025 Online
- This is a course-without-lab intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field as preparation for General Chemistry. The course is designed for students who have never had a chemistry course or who have not taken general chemistry in 5+ years. Topics include the classification of matter, the Metric system, dimensional analysis, atomic theory and the structure of atoms, periodic relationships, energy and temperature, gas laws and the kinetic molecular theory, compounds and nomenclature of inorganic compounds, the mole, stoichiometry, types of chemical reactions, balancing equations, electron configurations, and chemical bonding. Enrollment in this course is strongly encouraged prior to enrollment in Chem 2031 if the student does not have a strong and recent background in general chemistry.
- CHEM 1000 can be used as as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
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.
ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Covers topics of inflation, unemployment, national income, growth and problems of the national economy, stabilization policy, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Purpose is to teach fundamental principles, to open the field of economics in the way most helpful to further a more detailed study of special problems, and to give those not intending to specialize in the subject an outline of the general principles of economics.
- ECON 2012 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
SOCY 1212 Career Success in the Social Sciences
Spring 2025 Online
Dates: 1/21/2025 - 3/14/2025
- Introduction to careers and planning for career success in sociology and the social sciences for students considering or pursuing a major in sociology. Discussions about career opportunities, the various sociology undergraduate and graduate degree paths, research being conducted within the sociology department, and strategies for being a successful and engaged sociology major. This course provides a space where students can learn how to leverage their studies to best align with their career ambitions and to develop skills and tools to help them onboard into their careers while still students at CU Denver.
- SOCY 1212 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. Prereq: SOCY 1001
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.
CHEM 1600 Introductory Topics in Chemistry
Topic: Intro to Environmental Chem
Spring 2025 In-Person
- A CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab designed primarily for non-chemistry majors. In Spring 2025, students in CHEM 1600 will explore Environmental Chemistry.
- CHEM 1600 can be used as as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
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.
ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Topics include price determination in a market system composed of households and firms: resource allocation and efficiency of various market structures, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Note: Complementary to ECON 2012. ECON 2012 is not a prerequisite for ECON 2022.
- ECON 2022 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
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).
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
SUST 3010 Sustainability: Past, Present, and Future
Spring 2025 Remote via Zoom
- Open to all students, SUST 3010 helps students learn to identify systems, whether environmental, economic, or social, and how to work with them to create positive change. This course draws on theoretical perspectives to critically analyze contemporary environmental issues across ecological, sociocultural, historical, political and economic contexts. Contact David.Knochel@ucdenver.edu for more information.
- SUST 3010 can be used as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit or as a required course in the Sustainability Minor. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
ECON 4540 Environmental Economics
Spring 2025 In-Person
- For students who have earned a C- or higher in ECON 2022, this course explores an economic approach to environmental problems: relationship between ownership structures, externalities and environmental damage; poverty, population pressure, and environmental degradation; valuation of environmental amenities; sustainability of economic activity; cost-benefit analysis applied to the environment; evaluation of alternative instruments for environmental control.
- ECON 4540 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division SP25 ECON 4540 IPcredit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: ECON 2022 with a C- or higher.
SOCY 3750 Animals and Society
Spring 2025 In-Person
- For Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, SOCY 3750 examines the category of “animal” as a social construct and the relationship between humans and non-human animals, which produces consequences of difference and subsequent inequality. The course utilizes different sociological perspectives to examine the social patterns, processes, and institutions that establish our lived experiences with non-human animals. Animals are the best! We all know that. But society’s relationship with non-human animals is complex. Meat production is one clear example. But so are the ethical issues at play in our relationships with our beloved pets. This course examines a variety of topics that have us rethink human-non-human interactions.
- SOCY 3750 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Sophomore standing.
PSCI 4414 Non-Profits and Social Change
Spring 2025 Online
- This course is open to all and explores role of non-profits in catalyzing social change. What are obstacles and opportunities to leveraging social change through nonprofits? What factors shape non-profits to be either transformational or systemstabilizing forces?
- PSCI 4414 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 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.
ECON 3100 Economics of Race and Gender
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- For students who have earned a C- or higher in ECON 2022 Microeconomics, this course gives an overview of the determinants of wages, employment and education in the labor market. Emphasizes the investigation of the evidence and theories of differentials that appear to be associated solely with race and sex, and public policies associated with discrimination and poverty.
- ECON 3100 can be used as as a CORE Cultual Diversity course _or_ as CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: ECON 2022 with a C- or higher.
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.
PSCI 3034 Race, Gender, Law and Public Policy
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Historical overview of race and gender relations in the U.S. This course examines the treatment of issues of race and gender in the judicial system and public policy.
- PSCI 3034 can be used as as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ as CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
SOCY 3050 Sociology of Education
Spring 2025 In-Person
- Open to students with 30 or more credit hours, this course draws from theories in the sociology of education and evaluates the relationship between race, ethnicity, gender, class, immigration status and educational experiences, aspirations, and outcomes. Topics include socialization, tracking, educational policy, college access, and educational equity. Education is critical to the welfare of society and success of individuals within it. But it also a controversial institution. Ideally, it can serve as a mechanism for society to address problems like race-, gender-, and class-based discrimination and cultural conflicts. But often, it can aggravate such ills.
- SOCY 3050 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Sophomore standing.
ECON 3770 Issues in Economic Development
Spring 2025 Online
- For students who have earned a C- or higher in ECON 2012 or ECON 2022, this is a survey course in development economics intended to provide a basic understanding of the economies of developing nations. Topics include issues and policies in economic development, comparative economic growth, demographic change, poverty, inequality, and migration. This course is for non-economics majors & economics minors. Students may not receive credit if they take it after they have completed ECON 4770.
- ECON 3770 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: ECON 2012 -or- ECON 2022 with a C- or higher.
PSCI 4002 Topics in Political Science
Topic: Local Gov & Affordable Housing
Spring 2025 In-Person Weekends
Campus: Extended Studies
- Explore how local governments shape housing patterns and promote affordable housing through land-use, spending, policy and market participant powers, including: origins of housing segregation/discrimination, land use reform to address the recent housing crisis, and components of a comprehensive affordability approach (including resolution of homelessness). Taught by former Denver office-holder and expert in production of affordable housing. Class involves field tours to affordable housing sites. This Weekend Intensive Course can only be found by searching “Extended Studies” campus. Extended Studies tuition is billed separately and is NOT eligible for the COF stipend.
- PSCI 4002 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
PSCI 4075 Gentrification and Social Equity
Spring 2025 In-Person Weekends
Campus: Extended Studies
- Explore the causes and consequences of urban gentrification, in Denver and around the world. Study neighborhood displacement and homelessness, racial change and conflict, global capital flows, targeted policing, and social equity solutions. Class involves multiple field walking tours of gentrifying Denver neighborhoods. This Weekend Intensive Course can only be found by searching “Extended Studies” campus. Extended Studies tuition is billed separately and is NOT eligible for the COF stipend.
- PSCI 4075 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing
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.
LING 2000 Foundations of Linguistics
Spring 2025 In-Person
- Provides students with the foundations of the scientific study of language. Examines core areas within theoretical linguisitics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and writing systems, using a variety of languages.
- LING 2000 can be used as a CORE Behavioral Sciences class -or- a CLAS Behavioral Sciences class -or- as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
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.
PSCI 3034 Race, Gender, Law and Public Policy
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Historical overview of race and gender relations in the U.S. This course examines the treatment of issues of race and gender in the judicial system and public policy.
- PSCI 3034 can be used as as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ as CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
ECON 3100 Economics of Race and Gender
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- For students who have earned a C- or higher in ECON 2022 Microeconomics, this course gives an overview of the determinants of wages, employment and education in the labor market. Emphasizes the investigation of the evidence and theories of differentials that appear to be associated solely with race and sex, and public policies associated with discrimination and poverty.
- ECON 3100 can be used as as a CORE Cultual Diversity course _or_ as CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: ECON 2022 with a C- or higher.
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.
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.
BIOL 1135 Human Biology
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory
Spring 2025 Online
- BIOL 1135 Human Biology (3-hour class), a course for students in non-science majors, covers topics such as basic human body chemistry, healthy internal body balance, new disease treatments, human inheritance and human beings as part of Earth's living systems. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1135 for students who have credit in BIOL 2010(2061), BIOL 2020(2051) or BIOL 1560.
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory (1-hour lab taken with BIOL 1135 in same term or later term) will investigate the function of the human body while emphasizing the use of the scientific method. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1137 for students who have credit in 2011(2081), BIOL 2021(2071) or BIOL 1560. - BIOL 1135 and BIOL 1137 together can be used as as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. 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.
ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Topics include price determination in a market system composed of households and firms: resource allocation and efficiency of various market structures, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Note: Complementary to ECON 2012. ECON 2012 is not a prerequisite for ECON 2022.
- ECON 2022 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
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.
ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Covers topics of inflation, unemployment, national income, growth and problems of the national economy, stabilization policy, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Purpose is to teach fundamental principles, to open the field of economics in the way most helpful to further a more detailed study of special problems, and to give those not intending to specialize in the subject an outline of the general principles of economics.
- ECON 2012 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
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.
CLAS Behavioral Sciences Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ANTH, COMM or PSYC prefix.
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.
LING 2000 Foundations of Linguistics
Spring 2025 In-Person
- Provides students with the foundations of the scientific study of language. Examines core areas within theoretical linguisitics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and writing systems, using a variety of languages.
- LING 2000 can be used as a CORE Behavioral Sciences class -or- a CLAS Behavioral Sciences class -or- as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
COMM 1021 Introduction to Media Studies
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.
CLAS Humanities Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ENGL, HIST, HEHM, HUMN, PHIL, or RLST prefix or a SPAN, FREN, GRMN, CHIN culture or literature course. Students may not use a language acquisition course or a lower-division English Composition course such as ENGL1010 to satisfy this requirement.
ENGL 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.
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.
BIOL 1135 Human Biology
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory
Spring 2025 Online
- BIOL 1135 Human Biology (3-hour class), a course for students in non-science majors, covers topics such as basic human body chemistry, healthy internal body balance, new disease treatments, human inheritance and human beings as part of Earth's living systems. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1135 for students who have credit in BIOL 2010(2061), BIOL 2020(2051) or BIOL 1560.
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory (1-hour lab taken with BIOL 1135 in same term or later term) will investigate the function of the human body while emphasizing the use of the scientific method. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1137 for students who have credit in 2011(2081), BIOL 2021(2071) or BIOL 1560. - BIOL 1135 and BIOL 1137 together can be used as as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. 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.
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.
CHEM 1600 Introductory Topics in Chemistry
Topic: Intro to Environmental Chem
Spring 2025 In-Person
- A CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab designed primarily for non-chemistry majors. In Spring 2025, students in CHEM 1600 will explore Environmental Chemistry.
- CHEM 1600 can be used as as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Spring 2025 Online
- This is a course-without-lab intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field as preparation for General Chemistry. The course is designed for students who have never had a chemistry course or who have not taken general chemistry in 5+ years. Topics include the classification of matter, the Metric system, dimensional analysis, atomic theory and the structure of atoms, periodic relationships, energy and temperature, gas laws and the kinetic molecular theory, compounds and nomenclature of inorganic compounds, the mole, stoichiometry, types of chemical reactions, balancing equations, electron configurations, and chemical bonding. Enrollment in this course is strongly encouraged prior to enrollment in Chem 2031 if the student does not have a strong and recent background in general chemistry.
- CHEM 1000 can be used as as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
CLAS Social Sciences Graduation Requirement: In addition to CORE, CLAS BA & BS students must complete one course with an ECON, ETST, GEOG, PBHL, PSCI, or SOCY prefix or ENVS1342, RLST3800 or SJUS2000.
ETST 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.
SOCY 3050 Sociology of Education
Spring 2025 In-Person
- Open to students with 30 or more credit hours, this course draws from theories in the sociology of education and evaluates the relationship between race, ethnicity, gender, class, immigration status and educational experiences, aspirations, and outcomes. Topics include socialization, tracking, educational policy, college access, and educational equity. Education is critical to the welfare of society and success of individuals within it. But it also a controversial institution. Ideally, it can serve as a mechanism for society to address problems like race-, gender-, and class-based discrimination and cultural conflicts. But often, it can aggravate such ills.
- SOCY 3050 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Sophomore standing.
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.
ECON 3100 Economics of Race and Gender
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- For students who have earned a C- or higher in ECON 2022 Microeconomics, this course gives an overview of the determinants of wages, employment and education in the labor market. Emphasizes the investigation of the evidence and theories of differentials that appear to be associated solely with race and sex, and public policies associated with discrimination and poverty.
- ECON 3100 can be used as as a CORE Cultual Diversity course _or_ as CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: ECON 2022 with a C- or higher.
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.
ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Covers topics of inflation, unemployment, national income, growth and problems of the national economy, stabilization policy, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Purpose is to teach fundamental principles, to open the field of economics in the way most helpful to further a more detailed study of special problems, and to give those not intending to specialize in the subject an outline of the general principles of economics.
- ECON 2012 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
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.
PSCI 3034 Race, Gender, Law and Public Policy
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Historical overview of race and gender relations in the U.S. This course examines the treatment of issues of race and gender in the judicial system and public policy.
- PSCI 3034 can be used as as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ as CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
PSCI 4414 Non-Profits and Social Change
Spring 2025 Online
- This course is open to all and explores role of non-profits in catalyzing social change. What are obstacles and opportunities to leveraging social change through nonprofits? What factors shape non-profits to be either transformational or systemstabilizing forces?
- PSCI 4414 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Topics include price determination in a market system composed of households and firms: resource allocation and efficiency of various market structures, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Note: Complementary to ECON 2012. ECON 2012 is not a prerequisite for ECON 2022.
- ECON 2022 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
ECON 3770 Issues in Economic Development
Spring 2025 Online
- For students who have earned a C- or higher in ECON 2012 or ECON 2022, this is a survey course in development economics intended to provide a basic understanding of the economies of developing nations. Topics include issues and policies in economic development, comparative economic growth, demographic change, poverty, inequality, and migration. This course is for non-economics majors & economics minors. Students may not receive credit if they take it after they have completed ECON 4770.
- ECON 3770 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: ECON 2012 -or- ECON 2022 with a C- or higher.
ECON 4540 Environmental Economics
Spring 2025 In-Person
- For students who have earned a C- or higher in ECON 2022, this course explores an economic approach to environmental problems: relationship between ownership structures, externalities and environmental damage; poverty, population pressure, and environmental degradation; valuation of environmental amenities; sustainability of economic activity; cost-benefit analysis applied to the environment; evaluation of alternative instruments for environmental control.
- ECON 4540 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division SP25 ECON 4540 IPcredit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: ECON 2022 with a C- or higher.
SOCY 1212 Career Success in the Social Sciences
Spring 2025 Online
Dates: 1/21/2025 - 3/14/2025
- Introduction to careers and planning for career success in sociology and the social sciences for students considering or pursuing a major in sociology. Discussions about career opportunities, the various sociology undergraduate and graduate degree paths, research being conducted within the sociology department, and strategies for being a successful and engaged sociology major. This course provides a space where students can learn how to leverage their studies to best align with their career ambitions and to develop skills and tools to help them onboard into their careers while still students at CU Denver.
- SOCY 1212 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. Prereq: SOCY 1001
PSCI 4002 Topics in Political Science
Topic: Local Gov & Affordable Housing
Spring 2025 In-Person Weekends
Campus: Extended Studies
- Explore how local governments shape housing patterns and promote affordable housing through land-use, spending, policy and market participant powers, including: origins of housing segregation/discrimination, land use reform to address the recent housing crisis, and components of a comprehensive affordability approach (including resolution of homelessness). Taught by former Denver office-holder and expert in production of affordable housing. Class involves field tours to affordable housing sites. This Weekend Intensive Course can only be found by searching “Extended Studies” campus. Extended Studies tuition is billed separately and is NOT eligible for the COF stipend.
- PSCI 4002 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
PSCI 4075 Gentrification and Social Equity
Spring 2025 In-Person Weekends
Campus: Extended Studies
- Explore the causes and consequences of urban gentrification, in Denver and around the world. Study neighborhood displacement and homelessness, racial change and conflict, global capital flows, targeted policing, and social equity solutions. Class involves multiple field walking tours of gentrifying Denver neighborhoods. This Weekend Intensive Course can only be found by searching “Extended Studies” campus. Extended Studies tuition is billed separately and is NOT eligible for the COF stipend.
- PSCI 4075 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
SOCY 3750 Animals and Society
Spring 2025 In-Person
- For Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, SOCY 3750 examines the category of “animal” as a social construct and the relationship between humans and non-human animals, which produces consequences of difference and subsequent inequality. The course utilizes different sociological perspectives to examine the social patterns, processes, and institutions that establish our lived experiences with non-human animals. Animals are the best! We all know that. But society’s relationship with non-human animals is complex. Meat production is one clear example. But so are the ethical issues at play in our relationships with our beloved pets. This course examines a variety of topics that have us rethink human-non-human interactions.
- SOCY 3750 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: Sophomore standing.
Online courses are taught asynchronously through Canvas at https://ucdenver.instructure.com.
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 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.
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.
BIOL 1135 Human Biology
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory
Spring 2025 Online
- BIOL 1135 Human Biology (3-hour class), a course for students in non-science majors, covers topics such as basic human body chemistry, healthy internal body balance, new disease treatments, human inheritance and human beings as part of Earth's living systems. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1135 for students who have credit in BIOL 2010(2061), BIOL 2020(2051) or BIOL 1560.
BIOL 1137 Human Biology Laboratory (1-hour lab taken with BIOL 1135 in same term or later term) will investigate the function of the human body while emphasizing the use of the scientific method. IMPORTANT: No new credit is awarded in BIOL 1137 for students who have credit in 2011(2081), BIOL 2021(2071) or BIOL 1560. - BIOL 1135 and BIOL 1137 together can be used as as a CORE Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-with-lab _or_ as 4 hours of lower-division elective credit. 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.
ECON 3770 Issues in Economic Development
Spring 2025 Online
- For students who have earned a C- or higher in ECON 2012 or ECON 2022, this is a survey course in development economics intended to provide a basic understanding of the economies of developing nations. Topics include issues and policies in economic development, comparative economic growth, demographic change, poverty, inequality, and migration. This course is for non-economics majors & economics minors. Students may not receive credit if they take it after they have completed ECON 4770.
- ECON 3770 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: ECON 2012 -or- ECON 2022 with a C- or higher.
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.
ECON 2012 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Covers topics of inflation, unemployment, national income, growth and problems of the national economy, stabilization policy, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Purpose is to teach fundamental principles, to open the field of economics in the way most helpful to further a more detailed study of special problems, and to give those not intending to specialize in the subject an outline of the general principles of economics.
- ECON 2012 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
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.
PSCI 3034 Race, Gender, Law and Public Policy
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Historical overview of race and gender relations in the U.S. This course examines the treatment of issues of race and gender in the judicial system and public policy.
- PSCI 3034 can be used as as a CORE Cultural Diversity course _or_ as CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
SOCY 1212 Career Success in the Social Sciences
Spring 2025 Online
Dates: 1/21/2025 - 3/14/2025
- Introduction to careers and planning for career success in sociology and the social sciences for students considering or pursuing a major in sociology. Discussions about career opportunities, the various sociology undergraduate and graduate degree paths, research being conducted within the sociology department, and strategies for being a successful and engaged sociology major. This course provides a space where students can learn how to leverage their studies to best align with their career ambitions and to develop skills and tools to help them onboard into their careers while still students at CU Denver.
- SOCY 1212 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. Prereq: SOCY 1001
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.
ECON 2022 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- Topics include price determination in a market system composed of households and firms: resource allocation and efficiency of various market structures, plus others at the discretion of the instructor. Note: Complementary to ECON 2012. ECON 2012 is not a prerequisite for ECON 2022.
- ECON 2022 can be used as a CORE Social Sciences course _or_ as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
CHEM 1000 Foundations for General Chemistry
Spring 2025 Online
- This is a course-without-lab intended for students pursuing a degree in science or a health-related field as preparation for General Chemistry. The course is designed for students who have never had a chemistry course or who have not taken general chemistry in 5+ years. Topics include the classification of matter, the Metric system, dimensional analysis, atomic theory and the structure of atoms, periodic relationships, energy and temperature, gas laws and the kinetic molecular theory, compounds and nomenclature of inorganic compounds, the mole, stoichiometry, types of chemical reactions, balancing equations, electron configurations, and chemical bonding. Enrollment in this course is strongly encouraged prior to enrollment in Chem 2031 if the student does not have a strong and recent background in general chemistry.
- CHEM 1000 can be used as as a CLAS Natural & Physical Sciences course-without-lab _or_ as 3 hours of lower-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
ECON 3100 Economics of Race and Gender
Spring 2025 Online -or- In-Person
- For students who have earned a C- or higher in ECON 2022 Microeconomics, this course gives an overview of the determinants of wages, employment and education in the labor market. Emphasizes the investigation of the evidence and theories of differentials that appear to be associated solely with race and sex, and public policies associated with discrimination and poverty.
- ECON 3100 can be used as as a CORE Cultual Diversity course _or_ as CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. Prereq: ECON 2022 with a C- or higher.
PSCI 4414 Non-Profits and Social Change
Spring 2025 Online
- This course is open to all and explores role of non-profits in catalyzing social change. What are obstacles and opportunities to leveraging social change through nonprofits? What factors shape non-profits to be either transformational or systemstabilizing forces?
- PSCI 4414 can be used as a CLAS Social Sciences course _or_ as 3 hours of upper-division elective credit. Discuss how any course might apply to your major or minor with your Faculty Advisors. No Prereqs.
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