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Apr 26, 2024
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2010-2011 Denver Campus Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
UC Denver Core Curriculum
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Philosophy of the core: The core curriculum of the Denver Campus provides all UC Denver undergraduate students a high-quality general education based on a liberal arts foundation, while allowing students flexibility based on their individual backgrounds and specific career goals. A goal of the UC Denver Core Curriculum is to engage students in developing sensitivity to diversity and developing their place in an urban environment as well as in the rapidly changing global environment.
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Intellectual Competencies
Three lower division courses to develop reading, writing and quantitative proficiency. Specific core mathematics courses may be identified by a program to satisfy requirements in the major. Competency is satisfied by a letter grade of C- or higher in each course. Pass/fail grading is not an option for core. One mathematics course, chosen from the following:
Knowledge Areas
Specific knowledge area core courses may be identified by a program to satisfy requirements in the student’s major. Restricted disciplines have courses that cross knowledge area boundaries and each core course is restricted to one specific area. Arts and Humanities
Two lower division courses outside the knowledge area defined by the student’s major. For students not majoring in either arts or humanities, one course must be from the arts and the second from the humanities. Behavioral and Social Sciences
Two lower division courses outside the knowledge area defined by the student’s major. For students not majoring in either the behavioral or social sciences, one course must be from the behavioral sciences and one from the social sciences. Biological and Physical Sciences, Mathematics
One lower division biological or physical science course with a laboratory. The second lower division course may be a science course with or without a laboratory, or may be a MATH course, excluding the course used for Intellectual Competencies mathematics proficiency. Math majors must take two lab sciences. Cultural Diversity
One upper-division cultural diversity course from an approved list of courses concentrating on race and gender issues in the U.S. International Perspectives
One upper-division international perspectives course from an approved list of courses concentrating on international and global issues. A semester abroad may satisfy this requirement if preapproved and in a country where the language is not the native language of the student. |
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