Courses

    Focuses upon communication commonly practiced by scientists, with special emphasis on writing. Directs attention to scientists' strategic use of written arguments, statistical data and visual representations. Prepares students for communication tasks within advanced study and professional work. No biology credit for majors in EBIO. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: written communication. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

    Under faculty supervision, students participate in a service project correlated with the academic subject. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

    Provides students with professional internship experiences with film, video, new media production companies, governmental agencies, production units, audio recording studios, and new media industries. Students will be responsible for securing their own internship position. May be repeated up to 9 credit hours. Prereqs., must be a BA or BFA film studies major with a CU GPA of at least 2.00, upper-division standing, and a 3.00 GPA as a BA or BFA film studies major. Offered pass/fail only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.

    Enriches the academic experience of majors and minors within the Women and Gender Studies program. This course usually will combine readings from books with lectures and discussions, community outreach and in-house publications spanning the interdisciplinary focus of the program. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours. Restricted to WMST majors or minors.

    Surveys historic and prehistoric natural disasters, their cause, and potential for recurrence. Meteorite impact, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, landslides, floods, magnetic reversals, and major extinction events. Course formerly numbered as GEOL 4950. Prereq., one year science. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science.

    Through structured discussions, selected readings, and written assignments, students develop an understanding of theoretical concepts that engage race, class gender and sexuality in American Ethnic Studies. The emphasis is on critical analysis and theoretical arguments that encourage students to become critical thinkers. Prereqs., ETHN 2001 or 2004 and ETHN 2014 or 2064. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
    Presents an introduction to the departmental Honors program. Consists of a lecture component on Honors research, thesis, and defense, as well as a seminar component where students present the findings of their library research, conducted under guidance of a faculty mentor, and hear presentations by graduating Honors candidates on their thesis research. Prereq., 3.2 or better GPA, declared EBIO major, and approval by departmental Honors program. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
    Provides an introduction to the departmental Honors program. Consists of individual library research on a potential Honors thesis topic under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Prereqs., 3.2 or better GPA declared EBIO major, and approval by departmental Honors committee. Prerequisites: Restricted to Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO) majors only.

    Introduces majors with relatively little mathematical experience to the major concepts in systems biology, in the context of key processes (cell growth, division, adaptation, development, and disease). Course is designed to help students master the necessary mathematical tools involved. Prereqs., MCDB 3135 and 3145. Recommended prereq., MATH 1310.

    Surveys ways of deriving meaning from anthropological data by numerical means, including but not confined to basic statistical procedures. Prereqs., ANTH 2010 and 2020. Same as ANTH 5000. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

    Focuses on knowledge and skills in accessing, evaluating, and integrating technology-assisted, mediated material in the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Also focuses on hands-on design and production of instructional software for foreign languages. Recommended prereq., a language-teaching methodology course. Same as ARSC 5000.

    Analyzes special interest areas of communication theory, research, and practice. Course format involves lecture, discussion, investigative analysis, and practical application. May be repeated twice for credit on different topics. Prereqs., COMM 3210 and 3300 or consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Communication (COMM) majors only.
    Offers in-depth consideration of one or more foundational traditions in Western civilization. Focus changes from semester to semester, but possible topics include the Hebrew Bible, classical Greece, Islam, early Christianity, Persia, and North Africa. Designed as a senior seminar for the certificate in Western Civilization. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

    Through projects, discussions, and screenings, this class explores the advanced practices and aesthetics of computer-based moving-image art editing. Topics include how to edit and manage a postproduction cycle, how to use digital editing systems and capabilities such as compositing, digital audio,and optical effects treatments. Prereqs., FILM 1502, 2000 or 2300, 2500, and 3400 or 3600, or instructor consent. Restricted to BFA FMST majors. Cannot be taken simultaneously with FILM 3400 or 3600.Same as ARTF 5000.

    Variety of new courses at the 4000 level, see Honors Program announcements for specific contents. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

    Interdisciplinary study of literature, art, and music from 1780 to 1830 in France, England, and Germany. Prereq., HUMN 2000 or restricted to juniors/seniors.

    Serves as the final product for students completing the major in Jewish Studies. The capstone asks students to design a project under the supervision of a mentor that serves as the summation of their past work in Jewish Studies. Capstone projects can take the form of a thesis, film, or other medium and must engage the student's second language. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) Jewish Studies (JWST) majors only.
    Focuses on a complete deductive framework for mathematics and applies it to various areas. Presents Goedel's famous incompleteness theorem about the inherent limitations of mathematical systems. Uses idealized computers to investigate the capabilities and limitations of human and machine computation. Same as MATH 5000. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of MATH 2001 and one of the following: MATH 3001, 3130, 3140 or 3210 or 3135 (all minimum grade C-).
    Examines perceptions and attitudes regarding differences in communication as a function of cultural-linguistic diversity. Discusses implications of differing verbal and nonverbal communication styles of various cultural groups in terms of professional responsibilities. Prereq., upper-division standing and a minimum of 60 credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

    Studies the persistence of genocide and the effects of mass trauma on women and girls. Within the framework of political and social catastrophe, the course examines cataclysmic world events and the traumatic consequences for women of religious persecution, colonialism, slavery, and the genocides of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Prereq., SOCY 1016 or WMST 2000 or SOCY 3314. SOCY 4000 and WMST 4010 are the same course.

    Provides an advanced interdisciplinary course organized around a specific topic, problem, or issue relating to gender and sexuality. Course work includes discussion, reading, and written projects. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours for different topics. Prereq., WMST 2000. Same as WMST 5000. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
    Interdisciplinary capstone seminar for the Western American Studies certificate program. Applies a selected natural science, social science, or humanities topic to the American West and addresses how westerners can make and sustain viable landscapes and communities. Recommended prereqs., CAMW 2001 and completion of Western American Studies certificate electives. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

    Engaging with the ways in which race, class, gender and sexual oppression intersect, this class examines several film productions by and about diasporic and subaltern subjects (especially children and women) in the U.S./Mexico borderlands, and the urban ethnic metropoles of the global borderlands. Prereq., ETHN 2001 or equivalent ETHN course. Same as FILM 4001. ETHN 4001 and 5001 are the same course.

    Engaging with the ways in which racial, class, gender and sexual oppression intersect, this class examines several filmic productions by and about diasporic and subaltern subjects (especially children and women) in the U.S./Mexico borderlands, and the urban ethnic metropoles of the global borderlands. Prereq., ETHN 2001 or equivalent ETHN course. Same as ETHN 4001.

    Provides a rigorous treatment of infinite series, sequences of functions, and an additional topic chosen by the instructor (for example, multivariable analysis, the Lebesgue integral, or Fourier analysis). Same as MATH 5001. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of MATH 3001 and MATH 3130 or MATH 3135 (all minimum grade C-).

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