Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog

Individually Structured Major - Intercampus Interdisciplinary Option BA


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Introduction

ISO is a system initiative realized through campus cooperation. Faculty and administrative representatives from the three comprehensive campuses of the University of Colorado System (CU Denver, CU Boulder, and UCCS) have participated in constructing the major.

The central facets of the Option are:

  • Collaborative Foundational Courses
    • Collaborative teams made up of faculty members from the three campuses have completed syllabi for three foundational courses and have begun the process of building these courses online through the Canvas Learning Management System (which the three comprehensive campuses have now adopted).
  • Collaborative Course Clusters
    • Campus teams have vetted ten clusters across their campuses in discussions with faculty governance bodies, department chairs, and other groups to assure buy-in as well as to confirm that appropriate courses are included in the clusters.

Program Delivery

  • This is an on-campus, online or hybrid program.

Declaring This Major

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General Requirements

To earn a degree, students must satisfy all requirements in each of the areas below, in addition to their individual major requirements.

Program Requirements


  1. Students must complete a minimum of 39 credits from approved coursework.
  2. Students must complete a minimum of 15 upper division (3000-level and higher) credit hours from approved coursework.
  3. Students must earn a minimum grade of C-(1.7) in all major courses taken at CU Denver and must achieve a minimum cumulative major GPA of 2.0. All graded attempts in required and elective courses are calculated in the major GPA. Students cannot complete major or ancillary course requirements as pass/fail.
  4. Students must complete a minimum of 24 credit hours of approved coursework with CU Denver faculty.

Clusters


Students must choose two clusters of a minimum of 15 credits each.  

Clusters are interdisciplinary groups of courses selected from each campus to support a recognizable topic shared among the three campuses; they differ from traditional campus- and disciplinary-based minors and certificate programs. Team ISO has created 10 interdisciplinary clusters from which students will select two. Each cluster must contain a minimum of 15 credits from a common group of courses drawn from the three comprehensive campuses:

  1. Cultural Diversity  
  2. Research Methods & Data Analysis 
  3. Global Studies  
  4. Digital and Media Studies    
  5. Environment & Sustainability 
  6. Policy & Security 
  7. Social Justice Studies  
  8. Organizations & Leadership 
  9. Professional & Technical Communication 
  10. Health, Science, and Society  

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