LIBERAL ARTS CORE COURSES

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COMMUNICATIONS:
Two courses required, either: Introductory Writing (CO1) and Intermediate Writing (CO2); or Intermediate Writing (CO2) and Advanced Writing (CO3)
Introductory Writing (CO1)
COMP 150 - Rhetoric and Research
Intermediate Writing (CO2)
COMP 250 - Academic Inquiry and Writing	COMP 253 - Action Research	ENGL 268 - Reading Texts/Writing Texts
COMP 252 - Professional and Technical Writing	COMP 254 - Writing in the Disciplines	SOC 210 - Ethnography and Writing
Advanced Writing (CO3)
COMP 350 - Rhetoric of Knowledge	ENGL 363 - Critical Theory
MATHEMATICS
One course required.
Mathematics (MA1)
MATH 105 - College Mathematics	MATH 121 - Pre-Calculus	MATH 222 - Calculus II
MATH 112 - Algebra for Calculus with SAI	MATH 132 - Introduction to Statistics
MATH 113 - Algebra for Calculus	MATH 221 - Calculus I
ARTS, HUMANITIES, HISTORY, AND SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
At least two courses must be from the Arts and Humanities category (AH). At least one course must be from the History category (HI). At least one course must be from
the Social and Behavioral Sciences category (SS). If these four courses do not total at least 15 credits, an additional course must be selected from any category (AH, HI, SS).
ARTS AND HUMANITIES (AH)
ART 262 - Art History I: Ancient World to the Middle Ages	ENGL 176 - Native American Literature	MU 102 - Blues/Jazz/Rock
ART 263 - Art History II: Renaissance to the Modern World	ENGL 180 - Literature of the Environment	MU 120 - Fundamentals of Music
BL 101 - Music and Borderlands: Beginning Spanish	ENGL 231 - British Literature to 1800	PEAC 101 - Introduction to Peace and War
BL 201 - Spanish for the Professions	ENGL 232 - British Literature since 1800	PHIL 141 - Introduction to Philosophy
BL 202 - The Wild Tongue: Intermediate Spanish	ENGL 245 - Survey of American Literature I: Beginning to 1865	PHIL 142 - Ethics
ENGL 116 - Media Literacy	ENGL 246 - Survey of American Literature II: 1865 to present	PHIL 252 - Environmental Ethics
ENGL 174 - African-American Literature	ENGL 265 - Semantics	PHIL 270 - Ancient Greek Philosophy
	ENGL 270 - History of the Film	THEA 101 - Introduction to Theatre
ENGL 175 - Women’s Literature OR	FR 201 - Intermediate French I	THEA 126 - Introduction to Dance
GSS 175 - Women’s Literature	FR 202 - Intermediate French II	THEA 240 - Ancient and Classical Theatre
	MU 101 - The Musical Experience
HISTORY (HI)
HIST 150 - World Civilization I	HIST 261 - Western Civilization II	HIST 281 - U.S. History Since 1877
HIST 151 - World Civilization II	HIST 270 - Colonial Latin America	NAIS 123 - Native American History
HIST 160 - Western Civilization I	HIST 271 - Modern Latin America
HIST 181 - US/SW Environmental History	HIST 280 - U.S. History to 1877
SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (SS)
ANTH 151 - Introduction to Anthropology	GSS 101 - Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies	PS 241 - Introduction to Criminal Justice
ANTH 171 - World Prehistory	NAIS 110 - Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies	PS 288 - Introduction to Environmental Policy
ANTH 210 - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology	NAIS 280 - Contemporary Issues of Native Nations	PSYC 157 - Introduction to Psychology
ECON 262 - Principles of Microeconomics	PS 101 - Introduction to Political Science	SOC 100 - Introduction to Sociology
ECON 272 - Principles of Macroeconomics	PS 110 - U.S. National Government
ED 222 - Education: Global Perspectives	PS 121 - Introduction to International Politics	SOC 279 - Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class OR
ENVS 100 - Introduction to Environmental Studies	PS 180 - Introduction to Comparative Politics	GSS 279 - Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class
GEOG 110 - World Regional Geography	PS 232 - Global Environmental Politics
PHYSICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
Two courses required. One course must be a science course with an associated laboratory (SC1). The second course may be a science course with (SC1) or without a laboratory
(SC2).
Science With A Lab (SC1)
ANTH 236 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology	CHEM 150 - Fundamentals of Chemistry I: Atoms/Molecules	PHYS 106 - How Our World Works
BIO 110 - Modern Issues in Environmental Biology	CHEM 151 - Fundamentals of Chemistry II: Chemical Reaction	PHYS 146 - Introduction to Astronomy with Lab
BIO 202 - Plants and Human Affairs	GEOL 105 - Earth and the Environment	PHYS 217 - Physics - Science and Engineering I
BIO 234 - Human Physiology	GEOL 107 - Earth Systems Science
BIO 250 - Ecology of the Southwest	GEOL 113 - Physical Geology
Science Without A Lab (SC2)
ANTH 246 - Human Biological Variation	CHEM 123 - Chemistry for Consumers	GEOL 170 - Earth Shock
BIO 125 - Conservation Biology	CHEM 125 - Environmental Chemistry	HS 200 - Introduction to Human Nutrition
BIO 140 - Introduction to Human Disease	GEOG 235 - Weather and Climate	PHYS 145 - Introduction to Astronomy
Note: All the Liberal Arts Core courses listed below are guaranteed to transfer to other Colorado public institutions under the gtPathways program. These courses were approved for
gtP as of publication date. Changes can be made to approved gtP courses at any time; they are not catalog specific. The most accurate listing of courses approved for gtP
can be found by searching by attribute on the schedule on WebOPUS.