The faculty of the College of Arts & Media, the Business School, the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have established a core curriculum for undergraduate students. See the General Information section of this catalog for an overview of the common core concept.
Students graduating from the College of Engineering and Applied Science are required to satisfy the humanities and social sciences and writing portions of their engineering program by taking courses from the CU Denver Undergraduate Core Curriculum, gtPATHWAYS .
The intent of the humanities and social sciences component of an engineering program is to provide the student with a coherent and well-structured exploration of a substantive issue or theme appropriate to the engineering profession and/or of interest to the student. The required humanities and social sciences electives must include both breadth and depth, must include advanced-level course work and should be planned in consultation with the advisor. A random selection of lower-division courses will not satisfy the humanities and social sciences elective requirement.
Courses such as accounting, contracts, management, elementary foreign languages, public speaking and technical writing are not acceptable as humanities and social sciences electives.